A "Normal" Girl Part One

A Normal Weekend

Soon it was Friday, the time for voice acting. The music and animation, plus the extra parts to the endings had been finished, except for the final photo. "You did pretty great Ray," Danny said, placing a hand on Ray's shoulder. "Did I do okay?" Lily asked. Lex chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, you did awesome," she said, patting Lily on the head. "Thank you!" Lily exclaimed, hugging Lex tightly. She was startled and that showed on her face, but she also blushed because of the close contact with her crush. "N-no problem," Lex said. "Hey, it was a group effort. I'd say we all made the best game we could," Ray said, putting an arm around Danny's shoulders. He laughed and nodded. "Yeah, we sure did," Danny agreed. They all went to Ray's house, bringing the twins along. "Tonight is costume night, so you'll try on your outfits for the shoot and I'll help the twins finish their outfits for the play. I'll give you guys the accessories you need," Ray said. The twins got into their outfits and Ray finished tailoring them to fit correctly. "So, I just have to finish the sequins on Faith's coattails and also finish up the details on the bowtie. There's also all of the embroidery for the hat, shirt, and sides of the coat and pants. Then there's the embroidery on Hope's shirt and the details there," she said. The twins changed into pajamas and Ray took the outfits.

She went to a room that had a sign labeled Sewing and sat down in her chair. Ray took Faith's coat and put it on a mannequin with a red sheet of shiny fabric over it. She started stitching the designs on the sides, which were white swirls over the plain black coat. Ray stitched the fabric into the inside of the coat, leaving an inch of plain black fabric for the closing. She placed on the buttons, which were pearly white with black thread. Ray finished those parts of the coat and moved over to the coattails, which also had red fabric. She placed on silver sequins and stitched them down perfectly. As a finishing touch, she added red realistic looking fake gems that glowed in the dark to the part near the opening and also stitched those onto the white shiny hatband, along with adding them between black swirls. Ray took out the black gloves she had made for Faith and started to add the details around the wrist, also adding the gems between swirls. She replicated the process on the sides of the black pants and added one to the center of the black shiny bowtie after adding the white swirls to the end of the bow on both sides, which clipped in the back so it didn't move or have to be tied. Ray added black swirls to the end of the dress shirt that also went up the neck at the end, with the red gems at the point of the collar. The shirt was short sleeve so Faith didn't over heat, but Ray added dress shirt cuffs around the wrist to make it appear as long sleeve. The gloves had some room before the swirls and the cuffs finished over the edge of the black, still leaving a little bit of room. 

Ray finished up Faith's costume and got to work on Hope's, which was rather simple compared to her twin's but still very pretty. It was a short sleeve black dress that reached her knees with a black dress shirt collar at the neckline. The dress went up to almost the base of her neck but still gave her some breathing room. Ray had added the collar at the neck line, making sure to still leave room while making it perfect. She stitched the same white swirl pattern at the bottom of the dress skirt but still left a centimeter of plain fabric. Ray added black stitching to the collar and it looked very similar to Faith's. Hope also wore white tights and black mary janes, so Ray did black swirls up the sides of her tights. She took an old pair of her own mary janes that would fit Hope and painted the toe and heel parts of the shoes white after painting it black and added black swirls and the edge of the white parts before putting on a matte finish to the entire shoe before changing the sole that had been worn away to a new white one. Ray added a protective seal over it that kept it down and prevented it from being worn out easily. She flipped it over and carefully removed the current messed up bottom for a new black flat bottom. Ray made sure it was completely attached and melted it to the shoe before adding a new heel and adding a seal. 

She finished up the outfits and folded them neatly. Ray placed them each in a box and labeled them for each twin. She took the clothes from her game partners to the room and added details. Ray placed them all on mannequins. Lex only had a white shirt, but Ray was able to make the pattern. Quinn's costume had a bunch of pins near the right pocket and a chain hanging out of the left, so Ray added those in, adding a piece of fabric underneath the pins so the ends didn't poke into Lex's leg. She picked up the boots Lex had brought and put white laces in them. Then Ray got to work on the bracelets, gloves, and other accessories for the outfit. She finished in a timely manner. In order to keep Ray focused on only her work, the windows were blacked out. Lily had seen the room and watched her work for a bit and observed how the light and sky changing through the windows distracted her and got Ray worried about the time, which made her mess up and/or put away the work to go do something else. While Lily wanted Ray to take care of herself, she also noticed that Ray really loved what she did and it helped her attention to detail. So, the two worked together and painted over the windows with ten layers of black paint and then they had covered the glass parts with card board and then some wood that they put a layer of plexiglass over and painted it to match the painted wall it was on, just for good measure.