EMILY

CHAPTER THREE

I woke up shivering. I had a nightmare but the most interesting part was not remembering it. It had always been like that and I preferred it. I didn’t enjoy remembering what I had dreamt about and then getting anxious about it. I reached for my phone and it was fifteen minutes to one. I wearily stood up from the bed since it was almost time to get up. I moved to the bathroom and washed my face then my mouth. I then headed over to my corner. I picked up my sketch pad and began drawing again. I later came into a conclusion with a slightly fitted cropped top with pumpkin looking half length arm with sparkling ropes at the back. I will make it with a square shoulder. I then set to work. I first measured out the sizes then proceeded to cut my materials and with the use of my office pins, I held it in place on my mannequin to get the idea to life before I began stitching.

I was lost in my work and only stood up when I wanted to use the bathroom. I looked outside and the day had broken. I headed to the living room once done with the bathroom and reached to the kitchen. I made myself a toast and a cup of green tea. I was half way done when Anna came into the house. Did I forget to mention that she had my spare key with her.

“ I am literally out of ideas” She groaned immediately she laid her eyes on me.

“ And a good morning to you too” I said and she rolled her eyes. She made herself a bowl of cereals from my kitchen obviously.

“ Did you get any insight on the metamorphosis work?” She asked with her mouth full. I scrunched my nose up and gave her a judging face. She swallowed and returned the face to me and I smiled.

“ I didn’t” I replied her earlier question. “ I didn’t even think about it” I said and she nodded.

“ Me neither” She says and I nod. I downed my remaining tea and headed to the sink to wash it.

“ Will you go to work today?” She asks from beside me while giving me the plate to wash.

“Nahh, but I need to complete the work we are to present by Tuesday” I replied, collecting the plate from her. I washed it off and dried them before setting it up in it’s original spot.

“ Yeah, that’s true, I’m going with theme, ‘PRIVILEDGE’, and you?” she asks and I gave her a dumb look. She’s always forgetful. We have had this conversation before and she doesn’t remember?

“ Intriguing” I repeat and she nodded before muttering a small sorry. I sent her a small smile before leaving the kitchen. She followed me into my bedroom as I resumed my work.

“ Woahhhh” she mutters as she reached for my mannequin.

“ It’s truly intriguing” She adds as she heads to my sewing machine while looking at the shirt I was almost done with.

“ You are amazing” she cooed. “How did you think of this?, it’s really nice” She adds and that gives me a go ahead order to continue what I had started. Did I add that she’s annoyingly honest? She doesn’t hide her disapproval neither does she hide her excitement and for some reason, I was extremely happy for it now.

I sat on my chair as she makes herself very comfortable on the bed tuning in to her movie and I turned to my work tuning her out completely.

After a while…

I stretched my arms after I put on the shirt on the mannequin. I was finally done and happy. I looked over and saw Anna still engulfed in the movie she was watching. I picked my phone and checked the time. It was still some minutes past eleven in the morning.

“ Should we prepare and then head out for lunch?” I asked and she hums in approval. She then stood up and left to prepare. I picked out a brown sweatpants and paired it with it’s sweatshirt and a black slides. I washed up and dressed up. I brushed my hair and put it in a ponytail and packed my bag adding my sketchbook and pencils in it.

I grabbed my drugs, popping one into my mouth, I headed into the kitchen and downed a glass of water. I grabbed my bag and phone once done and went over to Anna’s. She was equally done, so we headed over to an eatery. I ordered fried rice and she got pasta but she kept eating from mine.

“You could have ordered rice too” I say and she shrugged still taking from my plate and I let her. We finished and she paid. She insisted on paying. We headed to school . We got there and met Wilfred already seated

“Are we late?” Anna asked and I glanced at my phone.

“He is early” I muttered and she hums before we headed over to where he was sitting. I sat beside Anna and Anna had to bang in the table before we could get his attention. He looked at us and gave a small smile before closing the book he was looking at.

“Hi” he greeted and I nodded while Anna just stared at him.

“ Did you research on the topic?” Anna asked and he nodded.

“But I can’t think of any design that could fit in with it” he says and brought out my sketchbook. Anna did the same but he looked confused.

“ We are about to brainstorm” I say boringly and he immediately gets out his own sketchbook and packed in the book he was looking at before.

“ We could start with knowing what that meta- whatever word is” Anna says and I nod proceeding to get my phone but Wilfred beat me to it.

“ Metamorphosis is something like a gradual process of growth, or should we bring in the word evolution?” he says and I just stared while Anna looked confused.

“ I’ll google it right now” he says before getting out his phone.

“ Metamorphosis refers to gradual or radical transformation from one form to another often implying growth, adaptation or rebirth” he reads out and I nod. Anna’s brain already going hay wire.

“ I’ll handle the PowerPoint creation, once we are done with these” I say and they nod.

“ She’s the best, her power point creation is always on point” Anna boasts and I scoffed.

“ I saw it in the last presentation you guys presented. It was incredible” Wilfred added and I rolled my eyes at him. He really didn’t need to point it out again. I had heard it from the whole class then.

We continued putting one or two together and I made a few sketches in my sketchbook too. Wilfred had an emergency so we concluded the meeting and Anna invited him over to her apartment the next day to complete the work and he accepted.

“ Do you like him?” I asked Anna immediately he left and she rolled her eyes.

“ He’s a big fan of Beyoncé which you aren’t and none of our friends are” she says and I nod in understanding. I felt pity for Wilfred because she was a bigger fan of Beyoncé.

We made our way back to our apartment but grabbed something from Starbucks before making a round about back to our apartment.