To Grow With Love

Chapter 3

Back in San Francisco (Spencer's Home Town)

Standing in front of a painting of a sun slightly covered by clouds near the peak of a mountain and 3 little yellow hand prints lined in a circular formation, Arthur reminisced a memory of the past.

"Why'd you put hand prints on the painting?" Arthur asked the 7- year old Spencer.

"Because if some one understood it, we would be great together."

"Really? If there is this person than... you would marry them?"

"She really wants to find that soul mate of hers doesn't she!"

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(returning to NY)

Ashley was in the showroom of the D-day headquarters working on a wedding dress she had personally designed. Finishing, she walked back looking over at the beautiful wedding dress and smiled, proud of the beautiful work.

The next morning Ashley walked out of a Starbucks with her coffee and started heading back towards D-Day. On her way there, she accidentally tripped over a paint lid, causing her to quickly reach for the wall beside her in an attempt to keep balance. Pulling her had back, she saw that she had left a yellow hand print from the still wet wall. Looking at the wall, she sees a sun slightly hid behind some clouds over the peak of a mountain. She walks off back to the office.

"Good Morning, Everyone!" Ashley said as she walked in.

"Ashley! Your back!" Her older brother Troy called out.

"What's up!" she said walking back towards him.

"Oh, I just got this really cool plant thing. It's supposed to, like, bloom soon!" He said, looking at the plant, "Well, things like these can't be rushed. Come on its time for the meeting."

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"This fabric here is a little bit more expensive, but much more comfortable. I think it would be good for the new line!" Ashley said, "Has the new fabric come in yet?"

"I told someone to bring them up, let me go check on it... Oh he's here."

A fat chubby and sweaty Aiden Dennison walks in chewing loudly and rudely on something."Hey! Ashley!" he yelled, even thought she is only 5 feet away. He looked around at everyone staring at him. "Oh! Sorry, I'm just used to doing that... Sorry."

"It's Jack Dennison's son Aiden, Remember him?"

"I really haven't seen you in so long! Hey, remember when we were little you taught me all the ways to make money?" he said.

"What are you eating?!" Said a very impatient Ashley.

"Gum." He said, looking around again,"Am I not allowed to eat gum in an office? Okay." He proceeded to make a very visual motion of swallowing it, "See, it's gone! Ahhhh." he said, sticking of his tongue.

"No, it's okay to eat gum, don't worry." Troy said.

"Why are you so sweaty?' Ashley asked noticing her was practically soaked.

"I work downstairs in the factory. Troy told me to bring these up." he said throwing the fabric on the table, revealing a large sweat hand print on them.

"What happened?!!" Ashley yelled standing up.

"Uhh... sorry you know I'm fat, I sweat a lot... you did too, remember when we played soccer?"

"Is this an office or your house? You don't have to come back to work tomorrow!!!"

"I'm fired because I sweat a lot?" he asked.

"Aiden works really hard and gets a lot done." Troy said, trying to calm down the aggravated Ashley.

"How would you know? Continue with the meeting." she finished, sitting down in her chair.

Walking out of the meeting office, Ashley walks over to Carmen. "Are you cousins here yet?"

"Yeah, I was going to go pick them up." Carmen replied.

"Great, come to the showroom first, I have somthing to show you."

"Wow!" Carmen said in astonishment as to how beautiful the dress was.

"So that's why you went on that trip, to make this?" Troy asked while just walking in.

"This is 1879 Honiton Lave, I was looking for it for a very long time and found it in San Francisco so I quickly flew over there to get it and I already made the dresses for your cousins, too."

Running into the room, Spencer exclaimed,"Wooow!!! Your wedding dress is really beautiful! This... this is Honiton lave! Carmen, where'd you get it?" Spencer asked.

"You would know?" Ashley asked snottily.

"You?" Spencer said seeing the owner of the voice.

"Oh, you know each other?" Carmen asked.

"Of course! Spencer, right? We've met! but I really wouldn't have guessed you were one of Carmen's cousins." Stepping back, Ashley began looking over Spencer's body. "40, 45... no 46..."

"What are you doing?" Spencer asked, covering herself up with her arms.

"Just measuring, but it doesn't matter. None of the dress I made will fit you anyway."

Running over to where all her other cousins were, she grabbed a magenta colored one. "If it's not my size then it's the dresses problem. I'll just fix it."

"Fix it? Once it's made you can't fix it. If you do that, it would change the design."

"Who says it can't be changed? I'll fix it for you right now! Give me 30 minutes!"

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Walking out into the room with the dress on, Spencer started to skip and jump right in front of Ashley.

"You messed up the whole look of the dress." Ashley said walking up to her, "Look at this, " Ashley said pointing to a veil like thing in the front."What's that for... trying to cover something?"

"So? I can wear it, and I think it looks better than before!"

"Carmen, I can't tell you who you do and don't have at your wedding, but do you really want a dress like that there? I don't have anything else to say. I'm leaving."

"Stay right there!!" Spencer yelled.

"Now what do you want?" Ashley asked.

Running to her purse, Spencer pulls out a hundred dollar bill."100 dollars for you to stop over-acknowledging my obesity!" Troy walked up and took the money out of Spencer's hand.

"Okay, lets just take this. Carmen, I'll be leaving with Ashley." He said walking her out.

"Carmen? How can you even marry someone in her family?" Spencer sighed. "Hey? Didn't you say you already took you wedding pictures? Can I come with you to go pick them up?"

"Sure"