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When Katie found out about the Goddess Dress from Gwen, who heard from Joe, who heard from Kurt, who heard from Lyla, who heard from Jack, she's delighted.

First off, because Gina spends so much time in everyone else's shadow, content to offer support and keep things moving smoothly without receiving much admiration for it, and Katie thinks it's high time she do something that she wants to do, because she wants to do it.

And besides that, Gina really, really needs a pretty new dress. Even if she'll have to send it in for the contest, it'll do her good to see herself in something light and shimmery and a little sexier than that poofy-black-dress-and-apron number she lives in the rest of the time.

Katie offers to help immediately, because she's done a bit of designing in her time, so even though she finds Gina bubbling with ideas already, really really good ideas, she can still help her jot down enough information to make a good pattern.

And she's really looking forward to the part where she gets to order Gina down to her underclothes and take her measurements, and maybe "accidentally" touch a few things.

So when she finds out the dress is going to be for Dia, Katie's mad. Really, really mad. Steaming mad.

Like Dia needs another dress! Like Gina needs to win Dia's friendship through presents!

They're already way too close, even though Katie doesn't really know what it is about that, that bothers her so much.

But despite Katie's scary steaming mad temper tantrum, Gina holds fast, because she's got that sweet, quiet, gentle stubbornness thing down cold. She's making a dress for Dia, she insists, as a surprise.

With a sad little sigh, Katie vows that she's going to go home and learn to sew, so she can make Gina a pretty dress.

But in the meantime, since the dress is going to be a surprise for Dia, they can't take her measurements; and since Gina and Dia have almost identical figures, Katie gets to make her strip down after all.

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