Meredith misses her mother the most. She couldn't help it as a drop of tears escaped from her eyes. She sniffs and quickly wipes it away before Matthew sees her crying.
Matthew and Meredith arrived at the apartment. Meredith runs off before Matthew starts talking again.
She shut the door to her room after she left Matthew downstairs. Meredith took a quick shower and changed into her nightgown. She stood in front of the mirror as she held her hair in a ponytail.
Matthew knocks on her door.
"Can we talk about this morning?" Matthew chuckled bringing his head close to the door if he heard any movement coming from the room. Meredith ignores him and pretends to be asleep to avoid speaking to him.
Matthew left for his room when he didn't have any response.
Meredith woke up the next morning ready for her appointment, lucky Mark and Gabby were able to get her the appointment as they promised. She was looking elegant in her white dress and black suit.
She admires herself in front of the mirror for a while and wears her confident face before leaving her room.
Matthew was still asleep, she searched through the fridge to get the juice she made the previous day only to find the jar empty.
She shakes her head in anger and makes some scrambled eggs instead for breakfast.
Meredith was done eating when she heard some footsteps. She turned around to angrily face Matthew but to her surprise, it was a lady in Matthew's shirt standing there.
"Hey there, I'm Lucia, you must be Matthew's roommate?" The young lady whispers as she stretches her hands forward for a handshake which Meredith declines. She is not interested in knowing her much less befriending her.
Meredith rolled her eyes took the plate to the sink and washed it. She wipes her hand with the napkin and angrily smashes it on the table.
"Oh wow, can I get some coffee, please? No sugar," Lucia chuckled staring at her long fingernails.
"Help yourself," Meredith scowled pushing her out of her way as she made her way out of the apartment. Meredith wonders when Matthew got a lady over to the apartment last night. She must be so tired that she heard nothing.
Lost in her thoughts a black sports car pulled up in front of her. Meredith curiously watches as Eddie steps out of the car and walks towards her. He gives her an unexpected hug.
"Hey, Meredith I figured you would need a ride, so here, I came to pick you up," Eddie said smiling.
Meredith was surprised at how familiar he was acting as if they were buddies. "Was he trying to impress me by showing up here in an expensive car? Geez, he is just like his friend," Meredith whispers to herself as she clears her throat.
"Hey Edward, thanks for thinking about me but no need, see my ride is already here. Well, thank you again, and see you later," Meredith grimaces as she walks to the cab she ordered earlier. Eddie looked dumbfounded as he watched Meredith walk away and couldn't do anything.
Eddie walks in on Matthew in the middle of the action in his apartment.
"Hey dude, is that why Meredith is so angry this morning?" Eddie smirks as he takes a seat on the sofa facing Matthew's bed.
"What the hell!" Lucia's eyes widened as she watched Eddie staring at both of them naked and comfortable with it.
"Seriously," Lucia growls trying to cover herself up with the sheet as she gets down from on top of Matthew.
"Get dressed now," Matthew sniffed smiling at Eddie. Lucia was upset Matthew allowed Eddie to walk in on them the way he did and didn't even have the decency to give them a little privacy by waiting outside.
"Such a jerk!" She cursed as she put on her clothes and stormed out of the room angrily.
"You met Meredith?" Matthew asked as he walked to the bathroom to shower, remembering Eddie's words.
"Yes, she rejected my offer to drive her to the company," Eddie whispers.
"I see, she is always angry dude forget her," Matthew chuckled. He came out of the shower with water still dripping from his body.
"Get dressed, I will wait for you outside," Eddie mumbled.
"What is wrong Eddie?" Matthew questioned.
"Meredith did happen, I like her man. The photos you took yesterday are already out and everyone is talking about them," Eddie said as a lit smile hit his lips.
"You must be kidding? You made her famous overnight Eddie," Matthew shrugged as he put on his pants.
"Yeah great but instead of her drawing closer to me she rather wants to be far away from me," Eddie complains.
"I told you she is not like other girls. Some girls would have taken advantage of the situation and fueled more rumours of you two being together but Meredith she feels disgusted," Matthew pouts.
Eddie looked disturbed. Matthew wonders if he just wants to have fun with Meredith or if he is attached to her as he says. Whichever way he felt uncomfortable talking about Meredith with him.
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Meredith arrived at the company for her appointment while everyone stared at her and whispered among themselves. She couldn't explain what was going on.
"Thank heavens I found you," Meredith said in relief when she saw Jim who happily greeted her with a wide smile.
"Why is everyone staring at me?" Meredith asked as the two of them stepped into the elevator.
"Well, my dear you become famous overnight. Not only did the board approve the project but also insisted that the photo should be placed on every billboard of de le Victoria," Jim happily whispered.
"You don't say?"
"Why will I lie to you, my dear? Every model in here is super jealous of you, I would be careful around here if I were you?" Jim added as the elevator door opened for them to come out.
"See you later girlfriend!" Jim whispers as he kisses Meredith goodbye.
Meredith was nervous about the interview but with her new fame with the company, she got the job right away.
"Miss Meredith we are very happy to work with you. Please you can start work as soon as possible," the director of the design department grins as soon as Meredith enters his office.
"Thank you so much, sir, I won't let you down," Meredith mumbled trying to hide her excitement but she couldn't. She was failing, the excitement and joy on her face could be read from afar.
"Zia," he called his secretary into the office.
"Yes sir," the blonde girl in a miniskirt replied.
"Show Miss Meredith around the department, and send her details to the HR," he instructed wearing a smile.
"Yes sir," Zia replied turning to face Meredith with a smile.
"This way miss," she mumbled.
"Thank you once again, sir," Meredith whispered as she stood to follow the lady. Zia and Meredith visited all the sessions in the design department.
They were on their way to the last and most important session of the whole design department, the fitting room.
Zia tentatively opened the door as they both walked in, they didn't announce their presence when they heard noises. Marisa was trying on one of their new collection.
"Let's be honest here I can't wear this crap, it is humiliating to my personality," Marisa chuckled rolling her eyes and stamping one foot as she have her arm around her chest. Admiring her polished evil long nails.
"But Miss we have already changed the design twice and the launch is a day after tomorrow," the frustrated lady said picking up the dress Marisa dumped on the floor.
"Well she is the queen bee and most cherished model of the house so she makes crazy demands, I tell you it will be very difficult to work with her but try not to get on her wrong side," Zia whispered to Meredith.
"I can very well see that," Meredith whispers as she walks closer to them touching the dress to feel the fabric.
"Oh wow see who we have here the one-time model that crawls herself to Eddie's bed to become famous," Marisa chuckled, throwing insults because he was jealous.
Meredith admired the exquisite fabric and wondered how much effort the team had put into its design. She guessed they must have gone through numerous quality control checks and discarded many yards of fabric to achieve such perfection.
She could see that every stitch was meticulously made. Meredith empathetically acknowledged the hard work and dedication that went into creating the gown and asked if the team members were feeling tired after putting in so much effort.
"Yes ma," they all replied you could see from their faces they had not slept well in days.
"Go have some rest all of you, and take this dress with you," Meredith said calmly as the team stared at her mysteriously.
"But the launch...."
"Don't worry about the launch take good care of that dress, oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself, even though with the rumours going around you already know me but all the same I'm Meredith Copeland, and starting today I will be the new assistant head designer in the department," Meredith mumbled as their mouth dropped wide open in shock.
"How did that happen?"
"She became a famous model overnight and is taking over the design department," the team whispers among themselves
"Just go on, I will attend to Miss Marisa," Meredith assured them. After confirming the information from Zia they didn't wait for another second in the room. Marisa is a whole package on its own, They were more than delighted to leave her sight.
"Well new head designer, what are you going to do about my dress?" Marisa sarcastically asked.
"Well for starters I'm Meredith and since you didn't like the design the team effortlessly made, you can tell me how you want your dress," Meredith whispers pulling a notepad and a pencil.
"Well, I want exclusive designs," Marisa pouts as Meredith holds the pencil to design the kind of dress she wants to wear.
"Details please," Meredith mumbled.
"Okay I want long hands, I want it straight with a little curve down my waist. I want a little puff on the sleeves," Marisa chuckled trying to give her a hard time but she didn't know she was an expert in handling bitches like her.
"Like this?" Meredith asked showing her the notepad, she drew the dress as exactly as she described it.
"You will look like a peacock in this with your high collar chain," Meredith muttered as she discarded the paper. Ready to draw another design. The team went to call the other staff members to come to witness the scene.
"Okay make it body fitting, cut the back down, also cut the front very down then cut the side as well," Marisa confidently said looking at Meredith who was shaking her head.
"You mean this? With the type of fabric, we are going to use, I'm sorry your breast won't be able to fit in it but of course, unless you agree to sign on paper that you will bear all the wardrobe misfunction then I will get started right away," Meredith said with absolute calmness.
Marisa got upset and walked out of the door. "I supposed, I will take that as an agreement to wear the dress the team made since you really don't know what you want," Meredith muttered as Marisa chuckled and left the room.
She felt more embarrassed when she realized half the company staff was at the door spying on their conversation.
"Get out of my way fools!" Marisa yelled as she made her way out of the building.
Among the people spying on them were Gabby, Mark, Jim, Eddie, and of course Matthew. They were quite impressed with how she handled Marisa.
"We finally got someone to deal with Marisa," Mark grins as the rest laugh dismissing the crowd gathered outside the door.
"Show is over everybody get back to work now!" Mark snaps.