Hiraeth

16

Sage

"Okay. Wish me luck." I say to Leo who is making coffee.

"Yea good luck. You're going to need it" He says back

"Hey..." I say pouting a little bit.

"I'm kidding luv, you're going to do great." He reassures me

"You haven't even seen them yet" I say

"It doesn't matter. I already know they are good without looking at them" He says

I laugh and he pecks my cheek before I leave. When I get to work, Jennifer immediately calls me into her office.

"Hi Jennifer!" I say

"Hi Sage. Do you have your designs ready for me?" She asks.

"Yes." I say with confidence.

"Okay perfect, let's go into the conference room where everyone else is." She says standing up from her desk

Everyone else?

I thought it was only her.

We walk to the room and when she opens the door I see five people sitting at the table-everyone there, are the people who decides on the dresses for the models to wear.

Oh my god.

Are my dresses going to be actually used for a runway??

My heart starts to race at the sudden oncoming pressure I feel. I introduce myself and start to present my four designs. I can't tell whether they like the dresses or not because their faces stay the same the whole time. I don't think that's a very good sign.

"So what is the meaning behind these dresses?" Someone asks.

Meanings?

"Yes, okay so my basis towards my dresses are focused on a flower. See the flower a metaphor for a human life" I say making things up as I go along. I start to think of what was happening in my life around the time I drew each of the dresses, and start talking.

"This first dress here." I say pointing to it, "It is very simple. A plain pale pink color. It is a straight dress that has no intricate designs. This simplicity represents the petals of a flower. See in this first design, the flower has not bloomed yet. It is still new to the world meaning it still has its innocence and purity."

When I first came to France

I move over to the second dress.

"This second design, has the same base color but it now has patches of different colors. This represents the attraction/temptation of a flower. The stage where it is just starting to open up, so people are always watching it, waiting for it to bloom. This is also the stage where people feel the need to destroy everything beautiful in sight. This dress represents people wanting to step on the flower and ruin its innocence and beauty."

When Leo continuously threatened me for no reason.

"Now this third design, is all about the flower finally blooming. See, the color is now more of a darker shade of pink because it is overtaken by everything happened in the world. It is stripped from its innocence and brought into reality. The vines stemming from the bottom moving up, are included to show how at this point, the flower is half way contaminated with the world's evil, and it just keeps moving higher and higher until the entire flower is broken down and is eventually stripped completely from its innocence. The flower observes the world around them and is broken by the fact that the world is how they are."