So Close by Emma McLaughlin

Author:Emma McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

“She is not fucking walking the red carpet in some god-awful sequined old lady dress!” I thought Jeanine’s tongue was actually going to come out of my cell. “Send her back to the hotel and I will pull every fucking string I can. What size is she?”

I passed the phone to Lindsay. “Sixteen,” she acidly told Jeanine. “Maybe eighteen. I have had three children. I have gone through menopause. Send me a postcard when you get there.” Lindsay hung up.

Back at the suite Lindsay placed a defiantly large room service order and then sat silently in her bathrobe while her hair and makeup were done. The dress selection was to be the last thing. One of Jeanine’s unhelpfully-thin assistants arrived with what looked like Bloomingdale’s entire Spanx department.

“No, I hate those things. I can’t breathe.”

“You can breathe when you get to the White House,” was Jeanine’s answer as she walked in the door with an armful of garment bags.

“Where’s Tom?” Lindsay asked as she re-dialed his number while we unpacked the dresses—and the compression garments. She squeezed into the first gown—a navy sleeveless floor-length.

“Now I wasn’t sure what she has that’s nice,” Jeanine said right in front of Lindsay, “So I have a little of everything. Okay, next.”

“Nice?” I asked.

“Like, does she have nice ankles, or nice shoulders.”

Tom walked in. “She has lovely knees,” he said, smiling. “I fell in love with her knees.” He kissed her and she visibly relaxed.

After trying on all six contenders she ended up back in the navy sleeveless—with a wrap to hide her ‘tharms’, short for arms-that-look-like-thighs in pictures—something that apparently kept Jeanine awake at night.

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