'After The Storm' - Chapter Twenty-One

     Yemi hummed softly as she put finishing touches to the food she was cooking. It was about midday on a Saturday and the sun was shining gloriuosly outside. She had woken up feeling refreshed and in a much more cheerful mood than she experienced lately.
     She heard the doorbell ring and wiped her hands on one of the kitchen towels. She knew it was Femi. He had called earlier and had said he would pop by when he learnt she was cooking. He absolutely loved her stir fried rice.

  "Hey!" Femi smiled as he came in when she opened the door.  

  "Hey" Yemi said smilling back at him. She locked the door behind him "Right on time. I only just finished cooking"

  "Great! I deliberately haven't eaten anything since morning" He popped the bottles of wine he had brought with him on the dining table. Yemi thanked him.

  "There's plenty to eat, and you can also have some to take away with you".

  "Thanks, honey" Femi replied giving her shoulder a squeeze as she went past him into the kitchen.

     They worked companionably as they set the table. Like she had told Femi. There was lots to eat, grilled fish and chicken, stir fried rice, vegetable salad and a nice dessert she had whipped up that morning.

  "Very tasty as usual" He complimented her as they began eating. "I don't mind having this every Saturday"

       Yemi just laughed. They finished eating some time later, cleared and washed up together and then they sat back in the sitting room.

  "This is the life!" Femi sighed contentedly as he relaxed back on the Sofa. "Good food, great company. What more can a man ask for on a weekend?"

  "What more indeed?" Yemi smiled at the contented expression on his face "I 've got this DVD that Dotun lent me,” She said getting up. “Let me get it" 

     She slotted it in and very soon they were engrossed in the movie or so she thought until she looked towards Femi and saw that he was looking at her and not the movie.

  "You don't like the movie?"

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'After The Storm' - Chapter Seventeen

  

     Somehow the regular orders picked up more over the next few weeks. That lifted up her spirits some. But she made up her mind though that she was not going to rest on her haunches, increasing her clientele base would remain uppermost on her mind.

     Apart from Cerys appearance, the charity fashion show seemed like a small event but she purposed to put in her best. The good thing was that Lola and her friend were given her a free hand with the designs so she was free to let her creativity loose and she did.

     The locally based models had their fittings once she was sure what outfits she wanted to make. They were easy work apart from a diva-like one amongst them. The model had made so many demands and wanted so many adjustments that she fairly drove them round the bend.

  "And to think that the farthest place she has ever modelled is Ghana" Francis, the new tailor Yemi had just employed muttered under his breath after one particular tiring session with her. Yemi heard his comment and smiled.

     The fittings with Cerys were starting the next week. They had her measurements and she had chosen what she wanted from the designs that Yemi had emailed her. She was on a tight schedule so they were going to work round the clock to get her clothes fitted and ready during that time.

     She arrived for her first fitting with two bodyguards but that was all the frumpiness she had. She was polite even though a little cool in her attitude, something Yemi didn't hold against her. She must have loads of people trying to get close to her all the time, so the girl needed some sort of facade as a protection.

    Cerys was very professional and showed that she had modelled for top end fashion houses. She was a stickler for time and would patiently try on as many clothes as Yemi gave her and only made useful comments as to their ammendments.

  "I love this dress; it's got so much attitude!" She said as she broke into the first real smile Yemi had seen since she started her fittings.

     The dress was really her. Yemi had designed it the first time she had come to the office. She had watched several video clips of her modelling work and of course seen her that time in Paris but having her in her office had been a different experience and her pencil had seemed to have a life of its own and she had sketched several designs that she felt would do justice to her beauty and added them to the ones she had already made.

  "You can take it as a gift when you 're done with it" Yemi offered "I won't repeat the design and we can tell the guests this particular one is not for sale" She held out the other dress "There is still one more for you to try on"

  "Not sure which one I like best of the two of them" She said still smiling that pretty smile of her's when she had tried second dress on. She did a little catwalk and Yemi and Ken looked on in admiration. The girl was gorgeous and sure knew how to strut her stuff!

  "But I definitely want to wear both of them that evening, if it's okay with the concept you have in mind?" She asked after she had sat down again.

  "You can and I 'm glad you like it, I still have a few designs that I’ve not made yet, would like to see them?"

  "Sure thing" She said and Yemi showed her the designs on the computer that she had sketched specially for her “I love the look of this and this" She said pointing to a couple. She looked at the mannequins critically "I don't mind those other two as well" She said pointing to a couple more "I 've got to be in Milan in three days time but I think I 'll place an order for them and collect them when I come for the final fittings"

  "You will have at least one of them ready before you go, but the others will be ready by the time you come back next month"

     She left shortly after that. Yemi was tired but so very pleased. Cerys words as she left the office had left a glow in her heart.

  "You’re really good, you know" She had told Yemi "I've been talking to my friends about you. I had my reservations initially as I didn't recognise your name but I'm really impressed with your work. You make a girl look beautiful"

     Yemi was all smiley for the rest of the day. She and Ken stayed later than usual in the office that evening. She wanted to be sure she could make good on her word that Cerys would have the outfit she had pointed out to her. That was professionalism. Keeping to her word.

  

    

 

    

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