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Butterfly Swarm
Date: 9/26/2015, Categories: Exhibitionism, Author: puddleduck, Rating: 8, Source: LushStories
to see it in a way that sounded so genuine that Jenny briefly flirted with the idea of inviting her to the fitting before dismissing it as as too needy. “You’ll look gorgeous in it,” Ruby said. “You’ve got a great figure.” * It was Wednesday. Ten days before the wedding. Jenny left work early for a final appointment at her flat with her dressmaker, a family friend who arrived accompanied by Jenny’s mum. It was a fraught afternoon meeting that drifted on until late evening and meant Liam had to stay out in the pub. Things weren't helped by the Spartan lighting and lack of seating in Jenny’s living room. But more pressingly, Jenny was still unconvinced by her earlier choice of an A-Line dress. If she heard the dressmaker say one more time she had a pear-shaped figure Jenny swore to herself that she’d hit her. Jenny was short with her; short with her mum and short with herself. While her mum and the dressmaker made polite noises of appreciation Jenny didn’t feel that it was quite right. The unhappy appointment ended with an agreement to leave the dress for the dressmaker to return in a few days to make final adjustments. Her Mum and the dressmaker left together and Jenny felt very alone. She moved into the bedroom to remove the dress and pack it into its sleeve. She looked at herself in the full-length mirror just beside the door and reassessed things. Maybe it was the fading evening light through the bedroom that shone a favourable glow over her skin and made the wedding ...