Stargazing.

Part 3.

A month later, Mildred was spending the weekend away from home to go on a training course for her nursing certificate and she missed Gwendolyn dearly. 

She had just finished for the day and was about to get changed and do some shopping for the rest of the things for their ceremony. 

She still had to get her shoes and jewellery for the day and she wanted to get some nice lingerie. 

She put on a red polka dot summer dress with some cute little sandals and put her hair in an updo as it was so hot before applying some fresh lipstick and putting her sunglasses on before heading out of her hotel room and taking the elevator down to the bottom floor. 

She left the hotel and looked at the street signs to find out where the stores were. 

"Phoenix is bigger than I thought." She muttered, lighting a cigarette and walking in the direction of the stores. 

Several hours later and she entered the hotel room with more shopping bags than she could count, exhausted but happy that she finally got everything that she needed. 

She had found some gorgeous shoes that were perfect to match her champagne dress as she had finally chosen the dress and was having it altered and the style changed to off the shoulder lace sleeves just like the pink dress as she had fallen in love with that style but wanted to keep the champagne dress. Luckily the seamstress had the exact same colour fabric and lace as the dress and she was going to add all of the embellishments along with a few more to the same area once she had worked her magic.

They were killer heels but worth it for just the one day and she couldn't wait to wear them.

She put them on once in the hotel room to try and break them in a little before laying the rest of her purchases out on the bed.

She saved getting the lingerie out of the box until last. This was going to blow Gwendolyn's mind. She giggled to herself, skimming her fingers over the satin of the corset. 

She had chosen underwear in a nude-ivory colour and sheer stockings to match and she couldn't wait to wear them. 

She had picked up a few other things like more underwear for every day wear as it was on sale and another pair of shoes. Gwendolyn was always complaining that she had too many but she had an addiction to buying shoes and she couldn't resist them.

Finally, she inspected the jewellery that she had purchased. Pearl stud earrings along with a string of pearls to wear around her neck. She wasn't sure if she wanted to wear a bracelet yet so she had decided to not buy one. 

She had got Gwendolyn a few gifts too whilst out shopping - a new blouse and some lipstick which she adored but refused to buy because of the price, some more expensive wine than they usually drank, some sandalwood and frankincense bubblebath and some lavender candles for when they took a bath together.

She had also got some little decorations to put around the gazebo that they were holding their ceremony in - some paper flowers on string, some paper lanterns to hang from the ceiling and some other cute things that caught her eye. 

She was incredibly pleased with her purchases and couldn't wait give Gwendolyn her gifts. 

She packed everything away and began to undress to go and take a shower but there was a knock at the door. She grabbed her satin robe and quickly put it on and opened the door. 

"Surprise!" Gwendolyn cheered, holding a bottle of wine up. 

"Gwen, what are you doing here?" She laughed, throwing her arms around her partner and kissing her cheek several times before pulling her into the room and shutting the door.