PASSION

Part 10

Then, they arrived at the shop. Dafune was so excited to see the shop. She felt she was near to achieve her dream to become a fashion designer. All the fabrics and other things in the shop such as the sewing machines were arranged neatly in the shop. Dafune was amazed with the arrangement in the shop. There were two sewing machines in the shop. "Do you have any worker, Madam?", Dafune asked Madam Jose. Madam Jose replied, "Yes I have a worker. Her name is Alicia. She will arrive later." A few minutes after that, a girl was arrived. Dafune was amazed with Alice because she is so pretty. "Alicia, meet Dafune. She is my foster daughter. She came here last night because she just finished her study. She decided to stay with me for couple of months.", Madam Jose said. Dafune was shocked when Madam Jose said that. Madam Jose gave a sign to Dafune to agree with her statement. Dafune had no choice so she agreed with Madam Jose. "Ohhhh. I see. Nice to meet you Dafune. I am Alicia. Wow, you are so pretty.", Alicia greeting Dafune. "AAAAA. Thank You. you are pretty too Alicia. By the way I'm Dafune.". Dafune said. Both of them laughed. Then, Alicia asked permission from Madam Jose to buy some drink at the nearby shop. Madam Jose gave that permission. After Alicia went out from Madam Jose's shop, Dafune asked about what Madam Jose said just now. "Yes, at the moment you helped me at the shop on that day, I had made a decision to make you my foster daughter because I know you are a good girl.", said Madam Jose. Dafune touched when she heard the statement that had been made by Madam Jose and cried. She never expected that Madam Jose was so kind that Madam Jose even wanted to adopt her. Dafune hugged Madam Jose and Madam Jose hugged her back. After that, Dafune went to the toilet in that shop to wash her face after she was crying. Then some customer came to pick their clothes that they had order. Dafune was amazed with the product of this shop. The stiches were done nicely and delicately which made the clothes so beautiful. The cutting of the clothes also was done nicely. Simply say, all the products from the shop are amazing. Then, Alicia came back into the shop and started her work by cleaning the shop first. Then, she and Madam Jose looked at the book on the counter. The book contained all the booking information that been made by the customer such as when is the dateline of the clothes. After done at looking all the information in the book, they started to do the order. Madam Jose went into the fabric section to find the fabric that she wanted. Then, she gave the fabric that she wanted to Alicia and gave some notes about the measurement of the order. This is to make sure that Alicia cut the fabric in the right way so that the clothes were done neatly and nicely. Then, both of them discussed on how they wanted to stitch the clothes and did some marking athe fabric. Dafune was amazed by how efficient and professional both Madam Jose and Alicia did their work. Dafune had a thought that Madam Jose is the right person for her to learn some skills that required to achieve her dream. She decided to tell Madam Jose that she wanted to learn stitching clothes from her.

Then, in the noon, they had some rest. Madam Jose went to the nearby restaurant to have their lunch while Alicia took the duty to look for the shop. While going to the restaurant, she saw a poster on a lamp pole at the street vendor. The poster is a wrestling show poster and it had Boer picture on it. On that poster, it said that the show will be held on this Saturday. Dafune really wanted to go to the show because she felt amazed with Boer performance which is getting better from day to day. she took the picture of the poster using her phone. Then Dafune and Madam Jose reached at the restaurant. They had manicoba and feijoada for luch. After they had their lunch, it was Alicia turn to have lunch. Madam Jose continued sewing the clothes while Dafune was at the counter. Then, after finishing her lunch, Alicia came back to the shop and continued her job. Dafune was amazed how diligent and meticulous Madam Jose and Alica in their work. The shop operated until 7p.m. All of them were returned to their homes. Madam Jose brought some clothes that she not done sewing them as she wanted to continue to sew them at her house. She had another sewing machine in her room. They entered the car and headed to Mdam Jose house. The first thing they did when reaching home were taking shower. They did that to refresh their body after a long tiring day of work. Then, Madam Jose went to the kitchen to prepare some dishes for the dinner. This time, Dafune helped her. "Madam, can you teach me to cook?", Dafune asked Madam Jose shyly. Madam Jose smiled and said," Yes, of course honey." They cooked together. Madam Jose taught Dafune some basic things of cooking how to cut and wash the chicken, cook the rice and so on. Dafune foucs when Madam Jose taught her. Luckily, she is a fast learner so Madam Jose did not have a hard time to teach Dafune. Then, they had their dinner together. While having the dinner, Dafune showed the picture of the wrestling poster to Madam Jose. Madam Jose smiled to Dafune after looking the picture. "Do you want to go there Dafune", Madam Jose asked. Dafune nodded. "It is okay, you can go. In fact, if you want to use a car, you can use mine.", said Madam Jose. "It is okay Madam. I will use the subway. It is so lucky that your house near to subway. By the way, this Saturday you and Alicia want to find some material for the clothes right. I think you really need the car.", replied Dafune. Madam Jose just smiled. "Okay, you already make your choice. But stay safe honey in the subway.", Madam Jose advised Dafune. "Okay, Madam. Besides, I have a question.", said Dafune. "Yes, honey. What is it?", Madam Jose asked Dafune. "I want to learn how to stitch clothes from you. therefore, can you teach me?", Dafune replied. Madam Jose responded to the question with happy face and said, "Of course, sweetie. In fact, I can start to teach you tomorrow. It depended on you to tell when to start." Dafune happy to hear the answer from Madam Jose. "Thank you, Madam. I really appreciate it. I think I want to start on this Sunday. I just want you to deal with your customer order first.", said Dafune. "Okay, sweetie and thank you for concerning about me.". Then, after having their dinner, Dafune told Madam Jose to let her clean the dishes and ask ger to continue to sew the undone clothes. Madam Jose just follow Dafune request. Dafuen felt happy as she can lessen the burden of Madam Jose. This is the only way to thank Madam Jose good deed.