Saving Grace

Chapter 6: Shopping with Lou

I woke up the next morning wrapped in Zayn's arms as always, it was starting to become habit.  He was already awake and had been watching me sleep. He looked at me with his caramel colored eyes like I was the most precious thing in the world and I loved it, it made me feel special, wanted; something I never thought I would feel in a million years. 

"What time is it?" I mumbled against his chest.

"About nine." He cooed into my ear.

"I should probably get going then..." I groaned as I stretched my body.

"Noo" he whined as he pulled me in and held me tighter.

"I told Louis I would meet him at eleven and I still have to go home and shower.

"You can shower here, I have one."

"Yes but I would still have to go to my house for clothes."

"I have those too!"

"Zayn, I actually have to look nice today, while I'm out I'm going to meet with the manager of the store I'll be helping, I can't exactly show up in an old t-shirt and sweats of yours, I have to look like I know what I'm doing."

"What store that you'll be helping? What?"

"There's a store downtown that sells Vera Wang evening wear and their sales are a little low so Vera has been talking about pulling her line from their store but she wants me to try and whip them into shape before she does, she wants to give them every opportunity she can because they've worked with her for years."

"If she's worked with them for years then why is it a problem all of a sudden, shouldn't she have walked away awhile ago?"

"The store just went under management change, the parents passed away and now the son manages the store and he doesn’t know what he's doing so sales have plummeted."

"How did you get elected for this job?"

"I helped a store in San Francisco that was having the same problem."

"Ok…well why did you help the store in San Francisco?"

"Because Vera asked me to."

"How do you know Vera?"

"Her company is based in New York I did an internship as her assistant one summer and she hired me on as her first assistant after the internship was over."

"So you have a job here now?"

"Yeah, that's the great thing about working in the fashion industry, no matter where you go in the world, you always have a job.  Now I really have to go."

"Fine." He huffed.

I stood up and gave him a quick kiss before I rushed out the door to get home.  When I got there, no one was home, so I didn't have to deal with Lacey's attitude today.  I took a quick shower because I knew that picking out an outfit would be difficult.  I had to find something that was casual enough for a day of shopping, but professional enough to meet with the new manager, while still looking cute.  I finally decided on a black and white dress with red trim and some black ballet flats.  An hour and a half after I got home I was rushing out the door to meet Louis at the cafe we decided on.  When I walked in he was already there.

"Hey, sorry I'm a little late."

"You're only one minute late."

"Yeah but in my world, five minutes early is on time and on time is ten minutes late."

"That doesn’t make sense."

"Well it does to me."

"But how can you go from being on time to ten minutes late in a matter of five minutes?"