Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror 6

Walking up to the door, Miranda pushed it open, stepping into the printing shop that she wanted, holding the rolled up, rather thick and frosty contact paper that her aunt had suggested that they use on the mirror. "Hi, how can I help you?" a woman asked as she walked up to her with a smile.

"Is Alex in? I have a special job for him that I called about," Miranda said, smiling slightly at the woman and shifting her armload.

The woman's smile became strained but she still nodded. "Let me go get him. Who can I tell him is here?" she asked.

"His cousin Miranda," she responded, the woman smiling and nodding her head, heading into the backrooms and making Miranda roll her eyes.

It looked as if Alex had gotten another admirer.

Granted she could tell why since her cousin looked as if he went to the gym for his body when it was just the fact that he worked at a place where he was the strongest of them all, doing a lot of hefting and toting. "That poor girl will never stand a chance as long as she's working here," she snorted. She moved over to a work station, dropping the two rolls down onto the table. For small rolls, she had found that they could be kind of heavy.

"Well, hello there, what brings you around?" Alex asked as he walked out of the back, smiling at her. Miranda smiled and hugged her rather tall cousin about his waist before she waved a hand over the rolls of thick contact paper.

"I'm sure that your mom told you that we're working on something big right?" she asked, looking around her cousin to the woman who was standing in the doorway. Frowning.

"Ah, is this the stuff that you needed to have engraved? Did you trace the shapes?" he asked. Miranda nodded. With his help, she spread out the two pieces. On, up in the upper corners out of the way, it said 'back' while the other had 'front' on it. On both, the two had the mirror outline traced along with a second one about an inch out. "You got what you need to be marked on it?" he asked.

"Yep." She opened her purse and dug around in it for a moment before she pulled out a small sketch pad that she had drawn the marks from her aunt's book. "They need to be exact. It actually took me six times to get these damn things just right as it is, so if you have to, use them to create the right stencil for the printing."

Alex smirked at her. "Actually, this works perfectly," he told her, rolling the contact paper up again, taking the pad and carrying both items into the back. Miranda sighed and sat down on one of the chairs that were offered, knowing that it wouldn't take her cousin very long since there didn't seem to be anyone waiting for something. Pulling out her notes and phone, she continued to do some basic research to collaborate what Brandy and Stacy had read in some of the journals.

She had taken up helping the two with their research since she had a few accounts that came through her family that worked with the city historical society that they couldn't afford. She didn't really mind since the other two were keeping her fed in goodies while she worked with them and the history that she was learning was going to help her history reports that she needed to finish off.

Taking a few more notes as she read over old files, her eyes flicked up to watch the way her cousin's co-worker walked around the store. She was doing various odd bits that she hadn't known were a part of the job but she really didn't care about that at the moment. She, for the most part, just ignored her and worked on her notes before the woman came to a standstill before her, her arms crossed.

"What is it that you're here for?" she asked. Miranda turned her phone screen off as she arched up an eyebrow.

"I'm here to get some printing work done for a friend. This is the only place in town that I actually trust to do something like this on something like contact paper and in the right shape that I want it to be," she replied. "And yes, I do have an appointment, one that my aunt was nice enough to set up," she said, tapping her pen on her notes. "Is that all?"