Hanna stood on the elevator carefully looking at her reflection in the elevator door. She was in head to toe Donna Karan, from the black blazer to the double layer jersey dress in heather gray which she noted matched perfectly with her Jimmy Choo's Malena pumps. She looked every bit of a fashion mad designer, which didn't really fit her job description of a tailor for the designer, but she was happy, and still using Mommy and Daddy's bank cards.
She took a sip of her Starbucks just as the doors opened and walked into the clean white loft space that had beautiful fabrics thrown all over the place and dress forms wearing couture, this was her happy place.
"Morning, Hanna" Juliet the new intern said as she eyed Hanna's impeccable outfit, "God I love that skirt, and that blazer!" Hanna smiled smugly and walked to the back by her little office. It wasn't much. It did have three cubicle walls and a lot of space for all of her sewing, and she didn't care that it wasn't the largest office in the area, or that her only view was of Phil the gay fabric guy; This is where Hanna was making her mark on the industry.
"Hanna, did you fix the draping on the red satin gown? Marcos wants to show that to Blake's people to see if she'll wear it to that gala at the UN next week". Ashley was Marcos Rodriquez's assistant, and she was just as pushy as he was. "Yea, it's being checked over by Charlotte, but I finished it last night. Although if Marcos wants Blake in it, he may have to add material for the bust area, she's has implants." Hanna called after Ashley as she walked away, apparently not really caring about Hanna's advice.
Hanna spent the rest of her morning checking on the hemlines of dresses and then undoing her work after Marcos decided that he wanted the dress to be different. It was tiring work and after a few hours Hanna couldn't feel her finger tips, but she loved it. It wasn't until around lunchtime that Hanna had a few minutes to check her phone which said she had 100+ missed texts. She opened up the text and rolled her eyes when she saw it was group text between Aria, Emily, Spencer and herself. The last dozen or so texts were from Emily and Aria sending out pings to her and Spencer's phones asking why there weren't answering, Spencer had been radio silent since the day before. Hanna just rolled her eyes again sent a quick, "IDC at work" and turned her phone off.
It wasn't until Hanna got a seat on her train did she turn her phone back on. It immediately began buzzing with missed texts from Aria and Emily. They must have nothing else better to do then text me, Hanna thought. She put her phone in her purse and settled in for the train ride, staring at the window planning what she would do for dinner when she got back to her apartment. She was just about to send Caleb a text when her phone starting buzzing and his name popped up, "Hey, I was just about to text you, mind reader. Whats up?" Hanna smiled to herself as she heard Caleb chuckle, "Just wanted to make sure you made your train, I'm making us dinner so I didn't want it to be ruined by you not making it home." Hanna smiled as the train chugged along, "yea I actually made the 5:36 train so I'll be home like twenty minutes early." She looked over to see the woman seated next to her giving her a dirty look for talking on her phone on public transit so she sighed and told Caleb she had to go before hanging up quickly with an apologetic look to the woman.
Hanna spent the rest of her train ride in a loved up haze, and got off the train on cloud 9. She walked to her car and without realizing it walked right into Emily, "Hanna, we have a problem". Hanna jumped back for a moment unsure of who she walked into or how they knew her name, but calmed down once she saw it was Emily. "Em, I'm on my way to something. I'm sure whatever it is Spencer can help you figure it out". Hanna clicked the unlock button on her key ring and opened the passenger door to gently place her Chanel briefcase her dad got her for her first job. "Hanna, A has Spencer." Emily said before she shoved her phone right under Hanna's nose. Sure enough it was a photo of Spencer tied up and gagged in a dingy looking basement. "When did you get this?" Hanna asked looking over the photo trying to figure out if there were any clues. "We all got it around three today. She's bleeding, see the blood on her shirt. Hanna, we need to figure out where she is, she needs help."
Hanna moved her bag off the seat and told Emily to get in before she jumped in the drivers side and they raced off across town to get the Aria's apartment. Emily filling her in on the group text she never really replied too. Apparently, no one had heard from Spencer since their meeting the other day, A could have had her since she left for all they knew. By the time they got to Aria's apartment and raced inside Hanna had almost forgotten about her dinner with Caleb. As they waited for the elevator in Aria's lobby Hanna dialed Caleb's number and immediately launched into an apology about the train breaking down and how she had to go back to Philly to swap trains. She could hear Caleb's disappointment in his voice, and what she thought might have been a bit of suspicion, but he didn't ask any questions, just said he'd leave some out so she could heat it up when she got home and then hung up.
Caleb put his phone in his pocket and blew out the candles, before he tossed the roses in the garbage and carried the ring box back to his dresser.