AN:
Do not own anything with connection to the show, neither do I own the woman who appears as client in this chapter.
Previously on Goodbye to yesterday.
Brooke royally screwed up.
Hope was handed some hard truths and advice.
Liam freaked out, but settled after realizing that it was a good thing.
Quinn broke into her Cold Design Case files to find something.
Steffy was broken and in order to fix her, Wyatt kissed her!
"We need to get Steffy working again though. Could you do something?" Eric is a little bit baffled that Steffy hasn't gotten out of her daze yet.
Wyatt does the only thing he knows to do to get the attention of a girl. He walks over there, pulls her out of the chair and kisses her.
For some reason, he's not expecting the reaction he gets.
Goodbye to yesterday
Chapter three
Something is happening inside of Steffy the moment Wyatt´s lips connects with hers, she's still not completely there yet, but she can feel the shift inside her. When he pulls his lips away from hers, she breaths out and opens her eyes.
"Why did you do that?" She whispers as she tilts her head to she looks up into Wyatt´s eyes.
"Well, it was the only way to get your attention, after you saw that design sheet and texted your father to come see it you sat down behind your desk and we couldn't get you to talk to us." Wyatt explains.
"Oh. Sorry!" Steffy checks her phone to see that it's been almost an hour since she sent the text to her father.
"You know, that's not what I thought our first kiss would be. Anyway, I got your attention so maybe you'd like to know what was decided?" Steffy blushes at the first sentence, then she gives a chuckle.
"Yeah, I'd like that a lot!" Steffy then looks around the room to acknowledge the other people in the room. She sees Quinn with a big smile on her face, her father with his hand over his eyes and her grandfather has turned to look at Ridge not really wanting to see his granddaughter be kissed by a man they've only known for a couple of days, he was a little embarrassed actually.
"Yeah, so, we've decided that since the fabric and then the stones for the back piece for the dress is so expensive, we'll only be making this one dress and have it be a one of a kind and we'll be showing it to stylists to see if one of them wants to have one of their clients wear it for the award season." Eric explains after turning back around to look at his granddaughter.
"That's a great idea! I like that, I really like that." Steffy nods her head.
"Good, it's a really good idea." Quinn responds and smiles. "I'm going to go to the studio and get started on it. I have everything already there, so I should be done by Thursday and I'll come and we'll place the hooks and clasps where they need to be to support the back piece the best. After that we'd do the photo shoot to get the dress out there. Actually, since there are so many women out there that could end up wearing the dress, maybe we need women of different origins to wear it for the photos?" Quinn suggests.
"That sounds awesome, it's a great idea." Steffy gives a big smile as she looks to her father and grandfather for confirmation and sees both men nod.
"Yeah, I think we should do that." Ridge agrees.
"Good, that's settled to then?" All present nods their head.
"Great! Then I'll leave you all and we'll see each other on Thursday!" Steffy gives Quinn a hug.
"Thanks for lunch! And I'll see you Thursday!" Quinn hugs Steffy back and then shakes Eric and Ridge´s hand.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
After leaving Forrester Creations, Quinn rushes to her favorite craft store as she needs to find some wire to connect all the gems with each other. When she's been searching for the perfect one for about an hour, someone approaches her asking if she needs help.
"Yeah, I'm looking for some kind of wire to connect gems for a back piece for a dress a company I work with has designed." She takes out her design sheet to show the seller.
"That's beautiful! Let me think a little." The man walks around the store for five minutes and then he comes back with a roll of lace that has the perfect pattern for what she wanted. "Now, I know you wanted wire, but this will help with the stability of the piece and it will protect the woman´s back and keep her back from getting too cold."
"It's almost perfect! Do you have it in anymore colors?" The lace he had presented her with was a deep burgundy color, but it wasn't the right shade.
"We do, a deep emerald green actually. Should I go get it?" Quinn nods her head with a smile and he wanders off to collect it.
When he comes back he's also got some deep sapphire rope with him and a bag of gems. He lays the lace out on top of the burgundy lace and opens the bag of gems to place on the emerald green lace to show what he means. Then he takes the rope and swirls it around in a pattern and places the gems in the loops to show what Steffy´s idea could look like.
"I'll take three yards of both laces, do you have the rope in another color as well, specifically a another gem tone?" She waits to see him wander off again and come back with a vibrant magenta color that would look gorgeous with the burgundy color of the dress and her face lights up. "That's gorgeous! How much do you think I need of the rope?"
"I don't know, I guess it depends how many you're making?" He looks at her straight on. "But I would take a little more then what you think you need. I know you said you wanted a wire to fasten the gems, but did you ever consider a chain? Because if you did, I have the perfect one."
"Okay, so, I'll take five feet of the rope, both kind and I would like to see that chain you were talking about." So he walks away and comes back with a very light weight chain that when you look at it from different angles it changes colors.
"Yeah, I can do something with this. Thank you!" She gives him the measurements for the chain, he tallies it up, she pays and then she walks out the door.
About an hour later she walks into her workroom and locks the door, she knows she probably won't be leaving it for the next few days. She's got the measurements and so it shouldn't be an issue to figure out how she wants everything. She pulls out her mannequin and tapes up the edges of the dress with an almost exactly colored tape and goes to work.
Because of the fact that she probably won't be leaving the workroom for the next few days, there's a really comfortable bed in there, a little fold out table with a chair, there's a little bathroom with a toilet, a sink and a mirror and a box on the wall with a door in front of it.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
Wyatt watched his mother walk through the door with a bag in her hand and walk straight for the workroom and he heard the door lock. He looks over to the people working with their current collection and he gives a whistle.
"So, mom´s locked herself in her workroom and we all know what that means." He sees everyone nod. "I'm going to the store to get food! You all just keep working with what you've got!"
He gets a chorus of goodbye´s and then he walks out the door.
He finds everything he needs at the grocery store so he goes back and starts cutting up fruits and vegetables. He places it in plastic containers to keep fresh and puts the little yoghurt bottles in the fridge along with two envelopes of sliced grill chicken, a tub of potato salad and a pitcher of water, which would be accompanied by another pitcher in a little bit.
Because he knows that his mother wouldn't need anything until in about an hour or so, he sets an alarm and goes back to business.
They've been doing this for years now. His mother will lock herself in the workroom, he'll go to the grocery store to pick up food for her and he won't see her for a few days. About three years ago, they figured out that having a hatch where he could pass a tray of food for her to eat and then she could pass the tray back empty was the way to go because if would detract as little time from her process as possible.
So, while it was a little inconvenient for him, it worked out because it was very convenient for her and she was the creative one and needed the time away from everyone when there was something special that needed to be done and this back piece was very special indeed.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
She emerged exactly two days later with a clothing bag over her left arm and a company bag in her right hand.
"I'm going to go home and take a shower and then I'm going over to Forrester Creations. You are welcome to come to Forrester Creations to see what I've done as far as the design goes. I won't show it here." She looks over to her son and sees him nod.
"I'll see you there in about two hours?" He raises his eyebrows.
"Yes! I'll see you then!"
He goes back to fixing the last of the paperwork for that week and then goes to the car. He arrives at Forrester Creations just before his mother pulls into the parking lot. He parks the car and opens his door, gets out and finds his mother, then he locks the car. He walks over.
"Do you need to help with anything?"
"Yeah, could you take the clothing bag please?" Wyatt just nods his head and then reaches in to the backseat to grab it.
"Man, this is heavy. Why is it so heavy? There's no way your design would weigh this much." He hangs the clothing bag over his shoulder.
"That's because there isn't just one. But you'll see when I show the Forrester´s." Quinn smiles at her son and then they start walking. Him with the clothing bag over his shoulder and her with the bag in her hand.
They walk through the door, go over to the elevator and ride up to the executive suit. As they exit the elevator Pam is sitting at the desk outside of Eric´s office.
"Hey Pam! Are they here?" Quinn sends a smile Pam´s way.
"Hey Quinn! Yeah, let me just call Steffy over. She has the dress in her office still, figured it wasn't any need to put it back in the stockroom." So Pam calls her grandniece and tells her to put the dress on before she comes over. Then Pam buzzes Eric and Ridge to let them know that Quinn was here.
Half a minute later, Eric opens the door to his office just as Ridge through the door to his office just across the hall.
"Have you told Steffy?"
"Yes, she should be here any minute." As Pam says any minute, Steffy walks around the corner and Wyatt looses his breath for a second.
"So, let's see what you've come up with then!" Steffy gives a huge smile.
She walks into her grandfathers office with the others behind her.
"So, while I was leaving on Monday I realized that needed some wire to connect the gems, so I went to my favorite store that sells fabrics and gems and that kind of stuff and the man who helped me made me change the design a little bit. So, tell me what you think!" Quinn pulls out the designs based off Steffy´s idea first from the bag, the rope flowing around the gemstones in an elaborate pattern with the chain weaving in at some points of the design, the rope also flowing down from a choker at the top.
Gasps are heard around the room and so Steffy turns around and let Quinn fasten the sapphire rope piece on the back of the dress. She then goes to the mirror and looks at it through a hand held mirror.
"This is gorgeous! But what about the piece we talked about before you left on Monday?" Steffy is slightly confused because she thought they had scrapped this idea.
Quinn just winks at Wyatt and he opens the clothing bag and pulls out a decorated piece of lace that would complement the dress magnificently.
Quinn takes the sapphire design off the dress and puts the emerald lace piece on it instead.
"That is absolutely perfect and it's like a totally different dress with this one on!" Eric exclaims.
"It sure is!" Quinn agrees.
Wyatt then pulls the burgundy lace out of the clothing bag and they switch the emerald one out for it. This one also has gemstones on it.
All in all, Quinn shows them eight different versions for the back piece and it makes the final decision very hard for everyone.
"Hey, how about this, We do a photo shoot where we take pictures with all of the back pieces and then decide from there? It's hard to decide not getting to see them all at once, and with the pictures in front of us it should be easier. The ones we don't choose we could use for other designs. We could even do a dress that is a shorter version of this but a wider skirt or something." Steffy nods her head at Quinn´s suggestion.
Eric walks over to his desk and buzzes Pam.
"Hi Pam!"
"Hi Eric!"
"Could you call Cole to come in for an impromptu photo shoot today? We need photos to decide which back piece we want with the dress."
"Can't you show the dress with all of them and then let the costumer decide which piece they want? Maybe they want more then one?" Pam´s voice offers into the intercom. "But I'll see what Cole is doing at the moment. I'll get back to you in a little bit!" Then it clicks as she hangs up.
"That is a good suggestion though!" Wyatt offers. "I mean, you said it yourself, it's a totally different dress based on which back piece you put on it. You could use the same dress for many different occasions, just use a different back piece each time."
"It's a 5000 $ dress and those back pieces aren't cheap either." Ridge objects.
"Yeah, but who are you trying to sell the dress to in the first place? It's not a stay at home mom in Tucson, Arizona. It's Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, Kim Kardashian or Lady GaGa. I think they could afford the dress with all of the back pieces and if you do decide to do the other dress, they'd have dresses for the rest of their life." He shrugs his shoulders. "Sort of at least. You know what I mean!"
Both Eric and Ridge nods their heads to this.
The intercom gives a beep indicating that Pam has talked to Cole.
"Hi Pam, did you get a hold of him?"
"Hi Ridge! Yes I did, he's actually already here. He's visiting one of our seamstresses, he's taking her out on a date tonight. He's on his way to the studio so if you have the time now you can go there and get it done right now."
"Thank you Pam! We'll show you the pictures later." Ridge has a smile in his voice.
"You better do that!"
And so the whole group make their way to the studio for the photo shoot.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
They hadn't slept in the same bed for the last week or so and quite frankly, she was getting tired of it even though she was the one who had made it like that. She's the one who had stayed in the other room even though Liam had left the door open to their bedroom every night since the night after her apology. Liam hadn't talked to her about coming back, but she figured he was just waiting for her to come back.
She knew he loved her, that he was committed to their marriage and that he wanted the future they had in front of them. She just wasn't sure if she deserved to have that love, commitment and future, she knew that she wanted it though. One hundred percent she wanted it. But that recording made her second guess everything in her life. Everything her brother had told her about Ridge, Steffy and that whole side of the family, everything her mother had told her about the same people.
Her whole world had been tipped upside down and she just didn't know what to do anymore.
She had been avoiding Steffy ever since she walked away from her in the hallway outside of Steffy´s apartment, but she was grateful to Steffy for not seeking her out while at work.
In about half an hour, there was supposed to be a 'Hope for the Future'-photo shoot for the new campaign for the previous collection and so she was on her way to the studio and when she gets there, Steffy is standing against the background in a beautiful dress with her back towards the camera showing off the gorgeousness that is the dress itself.
She walks over to Wyatt.
"Hi! What's going on?" Wyatt turns and looks at the woman next to him.
"Hi Hope! We couldn't decide which back piece was going to be used for the promotional photos for this dress, so Steffy is modeling the dress showing off the back pieces for us to choose from. It's easier when you have all of it in front of you at the same time." Hope nods at the explanation. "Why are you here?"
"We're doing a re-promotion of the last release of Hope for the Future-line and we needed new pictures, I have the studio booked in half an hour and figured I could come down and arrange the clothes the way I wanted them to be before we start."
"Good plan!" Wyatt smiles at Hope before he turns back to the photo shoot already going on.
When the first back piece is applied, Hope gasps.
"That is gorgeous! She looks so good in that dress!" Wyatt looks back at his nephew´s wife.
"Well, when you wear the clothes and doesn't let the clothes wear you, you look gorgeous in anything and Steffy seems to always be wearing the clothes rather then letting the clothes wear her. It doesn't hurt that her body looks like it does either." Hope just nods at this sentiment and then she walks away from the shoot to get to the rack with the Hope for the Future clothes.
She keeps glancing back towards Steffy though and she finally understands what Liam loves about Steffy. It's not the way she looks or the sensuality that's dripping from her every cell. It's her creativeness, the loyalty she shows the people she loves and how hard she loves the people she loves, it's the way she's not afraid to just jump in to help whenever she sees the need to, the way she takes charge of situations that seems to be getting out of hand, it's the way she shows you that she wants to be with you fully and completely without hesitation.
That last thing is the one that Hope is the most jealous of Steffy for. She wished she could be so sure in and of herself to not doubt what she wants. She finds it astounding just how much her thought process had changed in the last week when it comes to Steffy and the way she viewed Steffy´s relationship with Liam and especially Liam´s relationship with Steffy. She now knew that there was real love there, true love she wasn't sure because she still believed that what she and Liam had was true love, but there had been love between Steffy and Liam.
The rest of the day flew by and when she came home that night, she chose to sleep in the bedroom and since Liam hadn't come back home from work yet, Hope went to bed and when Liam came home, he was surprised, but then he smiled and went to bed as well.
The next morning they woke up at the same time face to face.
"Welcome back!" Liam gently whispers.
"Thank you! It was time. I have had a lot of time to think and I think I get it now!"
"What?"
"Why you loved/love her. I always thought it was because of her sensuality and the way it just oozes out of her. But it's not. It might have been the thing that drew you to her in the first place, but it's not what made you come back for more. The reason you loved/love her is because of the way she throws everything into what's going on without a care in the world of if she could get hurt by it, her sense of loyalty, the way she loves the people around her and the way she totally and completely commits to you without hesitation and the way she shows you that she wants to be with you and I'm sorry that I wasn't sure or secure in myself to show you that myself. There was always something holding me back and I still haven't figured that one out." Hope´s eyes start to water with tears.
"What brought this revelation on?" Liam brings her into his arms.
"I watched her during a photo shoot yesterday and the way she acted around everyone even though she's the one who was the one it was revolving around making everyone feel included and truly a part of it was eye opening. She makes people feel special, she doesn't make it all about her and she doesn't feel entitled to what she's been given. She has worked hard to get where she is and this cloud that my mother had put over my eyes made me think that Steffy hadn't worked for it and had just been given it. I know her mom gave her those shares, but she got them because she was treated unfairly due to my mother being involved with her father and because of that she got fired for something she hadn't done."
"I knew she didn't do it." Liam reveals.
"How come?"
"Because I was part of the chain that did it. I was fixing her computer when I found a file where she and her father was talking about what happened between Brooke and Oliver at your graduation. Justin and my father decided to add that to the video honoring your mother, and because of the way I've been told about how she feels about Brooke I have to say that the video was beautifully done before it got tampered with. Steffy did not out your mother and Oliver. Justin and my father did. Steffy wasn't treated right back then and you know that most of that was done because your mother had her fathers ear."
"Yeah, when I think about it, mom did manipulate Ridge quite a bit while they were together. I'm sorry to say that because it was to my benefits, I thought it was okay. But after hearing that recording of Rick taunting her father, I get that it wasn't okay. Steffy is his daughter and she should never have been put in third place after my mother and me. Sure, he was the father figure I had at the time, but he still wasn't my father. He was my stepfather. When I was young, whenever Ridge was about to walk out on mom, most often because of her lies and deceits coming out, my mom would always say, What about the children Ridge? and now I'm like, well, you should have thought of us before doing what ever it is you did or told that lie that made him want to leave you. When I grew up it was always someone else´s fault, Stephanie or Taylor´s, but never my mother´s even though she's the one who did it or said it and Rick has that same trait. Even I had it there for a while, but I know better now and I plan to own my mistakes in the future."
"I'm glad you finally see what I see in Steffy, she's such an amazing woman that I feel like you're missing out on the wonder that is her by listening to what your mother says she is, when she herself has done so much worse then Steffy ever has." Liam starts getting out of bed. "How did your shoot go?"
"It went okej. The pictures are really pretty. I think it's going to be a good campaign." Hope smiles and then gets ready for the rest of the day.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
They had decided to look at the photos the day after the shoot and currently they were all in Eric´s office checking out the magnified photos of Steffy wearing the dress trying to decide which photo to use.
"I think we should use the one with emerald green lace. It looks more expensive." Thomas says.
"I think we should we should use the sapphire rope-photo, sex sells and the magenta one is to similar in color to the dress." Wyatt interjects.
"Well, I've been thinking, maybe we can use the photo without any of the back pieces and then place smaller versions of the photos with the back pieces on the back of the photo?" Quinn states pointing to said photo.
"Why didn't we think about that before?" Steffy looks like a light bulb has switched on over her head.
"That is a really good idea actually." Ridge agrees. "If they want to see a bigger version of any of the photos with the back pieces, there's no reason we can't send it to them."
"Yes, let's do that. Steffy, could you see if you can come up with a good lay out for the back of the picture?" Eric turns to his granddaughter, who nods her head at the request.
"Yes, I'll get right on that." True to her word, Steffy gets to work right away. She places the pictures on the floor.
Burgundy lace, sapphire rope, emerald lace and magenta rope, the chain and jewels connecting all four pictures.
"This is my plan, but I was thinking that we could bring the focus in on the back pieces and remove the length of the skirt so that the back pieces are the focus of the pictures." She picks up a design sheet and starts drawing up a rough sketch showing what she means. After ten minutes, she hands the sketch over to her grandfather.
"Yes, this is a good idea, lets run with it. Talk to Cole about it!" Steffy nods her head and then heads off to talk to the photographer.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
Over at Spencer publications, Bill Spencer managed to get everything he needed to get done today done within the first two hours of being at work. He's not entirely sure what he's going to do now. He was curious to know what was going on at Forrester Creations now that his brother and his brother´s mother had asked if the Forresters would like to work on a joint campaign with them.
So, he made his decision to stop by his investment and see how things were going. What he saw made him smile.
Wyatt and Steffy were hard at work together with a man he'd never seen before working out a way for a promotion of a dress that wasn't really working. Both Wyatt and Steffy look up when they hear him clear his throat after leaning against the doorframe.
"Hey Bill! What are you doing here so early? Shouldn't you be at work right now?" Steffy gets up to give him a welcome hug.
"Yeah, I probably should, but I'm already done with what I was supposed to do today, so I took some time to check how things are moving over here." Bill hugs her right back.
"Well things are moving along just fine here. We're presently having some trouble with the placements of the photos for the new promotion. Steffy´s idea that she presented on the fly just doesn't work with the photos we have." Wyatt expresses concern.
"Well, let me see what you've got!" So he walks over and looks down on the pictures. Then he takes a scissor, cuts the photos with the magenta and sapphire backpieces through the middle and places them over burgundy and emerald lace backpieces and then places them next to each other.
Wyatt looks up at Steffy and then he turns to Cole.
"Why didn't we think of that?"
Steffy just shrugs her shoulders.
"I don't know, but it's a really good idea." Steffy sends off a smile to her former father in law, who bows and thanks her for the praise.
"So, how is it going with the Hope issue?"
"It's going okej, we haven't talked since she left my apartment a week ago. I told her somethings that she aparently needed to know and let her hear the recording of her brother taunting my father back when Rick and I were engaged and she seems to see why I've been the way I have these last few years. She doesn't seek me out anymore to cause unneeded drama. I've had a pretty Logan-free week actually." Steffy ends her statement with a smile on her face that reaches her eyes.
"That's good. Have you seen her at all?"
"No, but we mostly work in different places in the building."
"She came down to shoot some photos yesterday when we were doing the promotional photos for the dress and she talked to me a little bit."
Steffy turns to Wyatt with surprise on her face.
"Really?" Steffy places her hands on her hips. "Oh yeah, the new photos for Hope for the future! Did you take those?"
Steffy directs her question to Cole.
"No, I didn't, I think that Adam did, do you want to see them?" Steffy nods her head.
Cole takes out his computer and brings up the program used by Forrester Creations photographers and finds the folder with yesterdays shoot. Then he turns the computer around so Steffy can see the pictures.
"Oh, those are good. The clothes look great and Hope does too. Don't you think?" She directs the question to the two brothers standing behind her. Both of them look over her shoulders at the pictures.
"Yeah, they're good." Bill agrees.
"They really fit within the image of HFTF I think!" Wyatt nods his head.
"I really wish she would have a little more confidence though. But I guess that's what growing up in Brooke´s house does to you. I'm glad I got out of there as soon as I did." Steffy turns her head around to look at Wyatt.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
August 2nd 2013
They sent the promotional photos out and it took about two weeks and then the phone call came that someone was interested in the dress. When she walked through the doors of Forrester Creations, everyone stopped what they were doing and there were whispers flowing through the hallways.
Steffy was doing some paperwork when there was a knock on the door, she calls for the person to walk in and in walks one of the most beautiful women in the world.
"Hello! I'm here for the dress fitting!"
"Hi! Welcome to Forrester Creations Ms. Lopez! I really hope the dress is what you want for the event!" Steffy has her brightest smile on her face.
"I'm sure I'll like it very much!" Ms. Lopez assures Steffy.
"I'll just go and get it then. Would you like to see it with all the back pieces before you decide if you want it?"
"Yes, I'd like that very much! I'll just wait here for you!" She walks over to the couch and sits down while Steffy walks out the door and goes to get the dress.
Five minutes later, Steffy walks back through the door with the clothing bags with both the dress and the back pieces. She gives a smile, takes the dress out and hands it over to the client.
"Where can I change?" She looks confused.
"We've got a bathroom just outside in the hallway, but we also have this fold up wall in here that we can put up, it's up to you what you want to do!"
"I think I'll use the bathroom."
"Okej, I'll show you, let me know when you're done!"
They walk outside of the office and Steffy shows Ms. Lopez where the bathroom is, then she excuses herself and tells her that she'll be in the office and to just walk right in, she sends off a smile and then walks away.
She walks through the door to the office and then to her desk and takes the back pieces out and lays them out on the design table for easy access. She hears the doorknob turn and turns around to see her client walk through the door and she kind of loses her breath for a second.
Steffy guides her to the mirror, places her infront of it and then walks over to get the other mirror to place slightly to the right of the client so that she can see the back of the dress as well.
"Yeah, this is perfect." She sends a smile over at Steffy through the mirror. "Let's try one of those back pieces."
"Which one?" Steffy shows the client the buffé of back pieces.
"Let's try the chains. I've always been more edgy then not." The latina sends a smile over to Steffy.
"Okej!" Steffy picks it up and then walks over to help put it on. "This is perfect!"
The smile on Steffy´s face is is radiant.
"It sure is! It's gorgeous! Let's try the magenta one?" The latina sends a smile over.
"Yeah, let me just take a picture so that I can show my father and grandfather." She then grabs her phone and takes a picture, then she shows the latina the picture before taking the chains off and then walk over to the table to place the chains back and then retrives the rope piece in question and helps put it on to the dress.
"Yeah, this is the dress I'm wearing for the next Grammy Awards. There's no other dress that would do!" She exclaims after seeing the dress in it's full effect. "I want them all, the whole set. My stylist said something about another dress that would work with these back pieces as well?"
"Yeah, my grandfather just finished the design last friday and it's been sent down to our seamstresses and they're working on it now." Steffy sends another big smile.
"Can I see the design sheet for it?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll just go see if I can find it anywhere."
It takes her twenty minutes to find the design sheet, then she makes a quick call down to the sewing room and recieves some surprising news.
When she walks through the door to the office, she's carrying an already ready dress on a hanger to show her client.
"Yeah, so I searched for the design sheet for twenty minutes before I found it, then I made a call down to our sewing room and they told me that the dress was already ready. So here we are."
She swings the dress forward and then watches her clients eyes tear up.
"Oh, that's gorgeous! I love the skirt!"
"Do you want to try it on?"
Ms. Lopez just nods her head. So they do the same thing again, they walk to the bathroom in the korridor, then Steffy walks back to the office and detangles the chains, Ms Lopez comes back and they start over with the back pieces.
"Now, the reason we wanted to sell the dress with all the back pieces is because it looks like a totally different dress depending on which back piece you use or if you don't use one at all." Steffy is currently placing the emerald lace piece on the dress and she sees the client nod her head.
"Oh yes, I totally see that and the back pieces changes a little depending on which dress you are wearing as well!" Ms. Lopez exclaims.
"They sure do. So, what have we decided about this one?"
"Yeah, I really don't see the point in taking one dress and all of the back pieces and leave this one without any, do you?" She chuckles a little.
"No, I sure don't!" Steffy sends yet another smile to the client. "So, should I go get my father so that the paperwork and tailoring can be done?"
"I think you should!"
Steffy nods her head and then she walks out of the office over to the office across the hallway to get her father.
"Hey dad!"
"Hey Steffy! What's going on?"
"We're about to sell our one of a kind dress. Well, both of them actually. There are some kinks though in the dresses that needs to be altered, but she looks gorgeous in them, totally her style."
Ridge nods his head and then he takes out the forms, a box of pins and a measuring tape just to be on the safe side.
He walks over to Steffy´s office and he agrees with his daughter completely.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
When the news got out that the dresses had been sold, everyone that had taken part were so relieved as the dress had caused so much worry for everyone. No one except Ridge and Steffy knew who bought the dress and so it was going to be a surprise when they see it walking down the red carpet next year.
However, getting the dress sold doesn't mean that the collaboration between Quinn Artisan Jewelry and Forrester Creations was over.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
AN:
Yeah, so, the dress SL is done now, I started getting pissed at myself to writing about it for so long. I don't know how many more chapters will come to me of this story, but I think I should let Steffy fall in love before ending it and maybe give her an even bigger role in the company then she obviously has right now. Don't you think?
So, who is this Ms Lopez?
Now, this is the last chapter I have for this story that's already written, but I just couldn't keep it to myself anymore. I hope you enjoy it!