I woke up when my alarm went off, lazily I hit the button to make it stopped and then realised the hand draped over me, smiling at the memories. I could have stayed lying there all day, but I had a meeting with Totty so I had to get up.

I rummaged around for some clothes and, deciding on some jeggings a dress and heels, I went to the bathroom and had a quick shower. I might as well grab breakfast on the way to work, I write Jasper a note saying

Gone to work, I'll see you later! Make yourself at home love Alice x

I went back to my room, Jasper was still asleep, and left the note n the table next to him and went to work.

I had a happy spring in my step today and grabbed a coffee at Bella's café and she noticed my extra happiness, I told her what happened and she jumped up and down with me. I had to get going then.

I pushed open the door to Totty Rose and walked up to Esme.

"Good morning!" I beamed.

"Good morning Alice, You seem awfully happy today!" As much as I loved Esme I felt embarrassed telling her.

"It just feels like one of those days." I said.

Esme called Totty and said it was okay to see her.

I knocked on the door.

"Come in." Totty said in her usual the-whole world-revolves-around-me-and-my-dog voice.

"Good morning Totty." I wouldn't let her ruin my happy mood.

"Yes, anyway. I have a favour to ask you." She placed a large gold bowl on the floor and her dog got up from her bed and wondered over, Totty stood back again.

"Well, at the end of every month I hold a fashion show to show some of my workers potential and one designer has…dropped out. So I was wondering if you could do it instead." I noticed the dropped out bit. Esme has told me Totty is usually strict and if she had the slightest suspicion you were 'slacking' there was a good chance you would also drop out.

"The end of the month? But today is the sixteenth!" I panicked, how much could she want me to make?

"I know its a little short notice, I just need about ten outfits by the thirtieth." She made it sound easy.

"Can you do it Alice?" she raised an eyebrow.

"I'll do my best." I really wanted to impress Totty.

"Good, They can be on anything preferably something that shows you as a designer. Oh, and it's all female wear." She got up again and handed me a sheet telling me the time and date of the show.

"So, that's all I look forward to seeing your collection Alice."

I left her office and felt like crying. How the hell was I supposed to make ten outfits in fifteen days?

"Alice what's wrong?" Esme bought me out of my panicking.

"Totty wants me to make ten outfits for the end of the month show." I looked at her eyes and she saw my panic.

"Oh dear." She looked down. "Come with me."

She pulled me to a large room, three of the walls were a pale green colour and one had a flowery wall paper. There were lines of sewing machines and manikins scattered about the room.

"This is the sewing room, you can use it anytime you want. The other designers do, the fabric and thread is through there." She pointed to a door on the right of the room. "There's also a coffee room through the door there." She turned and pointed to a door behind us. "And you can come and see my anytime you want." She smiled, kissed my cheek and walked off.

I went into the fabric and thread room it was amazing, the colours faded from reds to oranges to yellows to green to blue and it went on and on.

I sat down on a stool in the corner of the room and thought about what I could do my collection on, my thoughts kept drifting to one thing though. Jasper.

Yay! Sorry it's been waaaay to long! I kind of hit one of those creative walls, I'm okay though. I sat down played my ukulele for a while, met up with some people and went on holiday so yeah, I'm all healed! ;D

Love TheMonsterUnderYourBed x