Runaway Actress by Victoria Connelly

Author:Victoria Connelly
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007443222
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2012-04-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Over the next few days, the little sewing machine whirred away on the dressing table of Connie’s bedroom. The whole place had turned into a workshop with lengths of material, coloured threads, sequins, ribbons, zips and buttons all jostling for space.

‘I didn’t mean to cause so much trouble,’ Maggie said.

‘It’s no trouble at all,’ Connie assured her. ‘I love it!’

‘Really?’ Maggie said, watching Connie working as she sat on the bed, hands guiltily empty. ‘I always hated anything to do with needles and threads.’

‘It’s so soothing,’ Connie said. ‘I love the noise these old machines make and it’s so amazing to have something in your hands that you’ve made. Look!’ She held up the burgundy dress that she’d been working on. She’d cut away part of the front to make a sexy scooped neckline, had drawn in the waist and chopped a good six inches from the hem.

Maggie gasped. ‘It’s so beautiful.’ She stood up and held the dress against her.

‘Try it on,’ Connie said.

Maggie hurriedly got out of her jumper, T-shirt and jeans.

‘Oh, I’d forgotten,’ Connie said.

‘What is it?’ Maggie asked.

‘You need new underwear. You can’t wear beautiful dresses over ugly underwear. It’s a complete travesty!’

Maggie looked suitably shamefaced. ‘I don’t really need nice underwear,’ she explained. ‘Nobody gets to see it but me.’

Connie’s eyebrows rose. ‘That’s not the attitude to take! Let me tell you something: beautiful underwear makes you feel beautiful. It’s like a little secret between you and yourself.’

Maggie stepped into the dress and Connie zipped it up.

‘That colour’s just right on you. You look divine. Come and see,’ Connie said, steering Maggie towards the mirror.

Once in front of it, Maggie’s mouth dropped open. ‘Oh!’ she said. ‘I’ve never looked like this before.’

‘But we do have to get your underwear sorted. We can order some beautiful things online. You’ll love what I have in mind and, if Mikey gets to see it in the near future, he’ll love it too.’

Maggie blushed to the very roots of her hair.

It was shortly after the underwear conversation that Connie made a discovery at Maggie’s place – her mother’s amazing wardrobe.

‘These clothes are beautiful, Maggie! Why didn’t you tell me about them?’

‘I didn’t think to. I mean, I don’t look in here very often. I’ve worn one or two items – it’s like keeping them alive – but they’re too lovely to be worn in the shop.’

‘Maggie, you virtually spend your whole life in the shop and, if you’re not going to look gorgeous there, then where are you?’

Maggie acknowledged that Connie had a point and watched as she took out the assortment of velvet skirts, pretty jackets, dresses and scarves.

‘These don’t need altering at all,’ Connie said. ‘Not that I would – unless you wanted me to. Oh! Look at this one.’ She held up a beautiful jacket in a dusky pink colour. It was lined with candy stripes, had large buttons down the front and was made from the softest wool.

‘I remember her wearing this one,’ Maggie said.

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