Way Back When (Elizabeth. O)

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Mia's POV:

Costume Design Studio

"Mia..."

"Scarlett I swear to god of your going to tell me it's okay to get emotional, I'm going to kill you." I say. I've had that lecture from everyone I've come across today, and it's really frustrating because all I want to do is move forwards with my life.

"Thats not what I was going to say. I was going to say that Romain would love to have your around for dinner tomorrow." She says, which surprises me because I've never met the man.

"Really, how come?" I say as I prepare to measure her, getting my tape and my pen and pad.

"We'll, I might have beat him at poker and he asked how I got so good, and I may or may not have said that a friend from work taught me, and now he wants to meet you. I think he got jealous and thought you were a guy." She smiles after saying that last part. I don't know why but I feel a sense of happiness knowing that Scarlett thinks I'm a friend. And the fact she talks about me to her partner makes me smile.

"Erm, yeah if that's okay with you." I say, a little flustered seeing as this was sort of last minute. And it's not like I'm busy or anything because I'm not in a relationship, or like I have anything of a social life.

"Yeah, I like your company, Langley." She says with a flirtatious smile.

"Scarlett, stop hitting on me and spread em... wait not like that!" I yell, completely contradicting the first half of this sentence. I blush in embarrassment.

"You could at least buy me dinner first." She laughs and she does move her feet into the correct stance. She knows the deal at this stage. I take her thigh and run the tape around it.

"Right, time to see how fat you've gotten." I mumble as I wrap the tape around her waist, measuring her waistline.

"Hey, I've worked very hard." She says, looking down at me and laughing. I smile up at her, knowing that she's the most hard working person I know.

"I know, you look great. But, you were slimmer in Winter Soldier." I inform her as I jot down the number and flick a couple of pages back to look at the early 2014 movie.

"Was I?! I definitely feel like I'm in better shape this time." She says as I take my yellow tape and wrap it around her hips. To measure the hips you have to slide the measure down from the waist and around the fullest part of the ass. "Hey, watch those hands, Langley." She says and giggles at her own comment. Next I move onto her rise. Like I said before, the rise is the worst part, and although it's more uncomfortable for me when I do it on men, it's still a little awkward as I sort of have to measure her crotch, and just being in that area of a person your not with is a little weird.

Next I move onto the arms and biceps so that the suit fits exactly.

I feel really bad for Scarlett because she get sexualised a lot by the public and just selfish people. It happens a lot in the movies she's in, and I partly blame myself for that. I have to design theses suits that are so tight that she can get into them, but once it's on it leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination. They make it really right round her butt and even asked me to design the suits with a faulty zipper so she can't do the suit up all the way, leaving her chest very revealed.