Dreams in Design

The 3 Reveals to his Heart

Original Publish Date: February 3rd, 2015

Thomas was now living in Paris and helping Throne run Forrester Creations International. He loved it – being able to have a fresh start and working with people who really valued his knowledge and ideas. It felt amazing! Though there was one downside – his romantic and overall social life had taken a few hits. Not that he had trouble finding someone to go out with. It was just...

All the Persian women here and he could not take his mind off the one that got away in LA. Even now with thousands of miles between them.

"She's married. It is way past time to move on." He told himself.

Only when he tried to do just that – it didn't seem to stick. He threw himself into his work. A few months had gone by and Thomas thought that he was okay. That was until the dreams started.

At first, they were innocent enough – she would meet him for coffee at a local café, or they would be walking and talking through The Carnavalet Museum. Now the dreams were just downright indecent! He would wake up and sketch for hours just to collect his thoughts before trying to fall asleep again.

Paris Fashion Week was a few weeks away and Steffy had managed to rope him into working on a new line together. They would meet weekly at his penthouse and Thomas had forgotten that he'd given her a spare key. When he woke up that morning to Esthero's 'Country Livin' coming from his sound system, all he could do was try to prepare himself for his sisters' up and coming cray cray. Thomas quickly put on some jeans and a t-shirt while making his way to the living room. Once he got a look at what was waiting for him – he immediately regretted giving her the spare key in the first place.

"Oh, my GOODNESS! Thomas – for someone so reluctant to partner up – you sure do have plenty of ideas! These designs...they aren't just sexy. They are elegant, yet daring too."

Of course, she was looking at the sketches that he'd left out. The night before he had had a round of dreams that were so intense that he ended up taking out all of his previous sketches. Some he just tweaked a bit more, others he found himself simply gazing at before finally going back to bed.

"They are not for your collection Steffy." He stated.

"What? Why not? Are you going to pitch them to Throne for Taboo for Women?" she asked.

"No. These are not for TFW either."

"Ohhhhkay. Then I gotta ask again – why not?"

Thomas felt a headache coming and sighed. "Steffy, please just drop it."

"Not gonna happen! These designs are amazing, and if they are not for your line, and I can not have them for mine, then I at least want to know why."

"No one was ever suppose to see these. They were just something that I work on to... Nevermind."

Steffy was never one to give up that easily. "To what, Thomas?"

"To clear my head. At night."

Steffy continued to look at him all confused, and he could not believe that she was going to make him go into further detail about what he had just implied.

"You know – at night? When I'm alone  and can't sleep?"

He could practically see the light bulb go off in her head and had to hold back a laugh despite the situation.

"Oh. OH! Really Thomas?!"

"Yes. Really. Satisfied?"

"Okkkkaaayyyy... For starters – wrong word choice there bro. And two, these designs have GOT TO come to life! They are far too good to just sit idly by on these sketches. Mmhhm. I would love to meet the woman behind these  inspirations."