Fiction Spotlight: Three Moments, Part 1

By Jenny Guo, Woodbridge High School

Nothing was coming to mind. She had been dry with ideas for a whole week, and the project was due in three days. Sitting outside a coffee shop with a cup of cappuccino and gazing downtown was not helping Lynne get any inspirations for her new design. The weather was getting warmer, summer hit earlier and earlier every year. Knowing ladies like to shop for the next season early, the company wanted to bring the shoes out on market before mid-April, so the designers had been greatly rushed. All her fellow designers already got theirs done, just waiting for the presentation day to come; only Lynne was still digging for an idea of what to draw. This was her first full-time job after graduate school- she couldn’t screw up. It was only her second year in this company; there was still a long way to climb. 4pm. She had been sitting here for two hours, with still no idea of what to do. Maybe going shopping would help, hopefully. Lynne got up from her seat, finished the cappuccino with one gulp, and headed for the biggest plaza in town. Strolling down a row of windows of fashion stores, Lynne was taking notes of the patterns and colors on a stack of scratch papers in her hand. Her eyes were either on the maniacs or down on the paper, and just when a general picture was taking shape in her head, BOOM!- she ran into a person. “I’m so sorry, Miss, are you alright?” asked the stranger politely. “Yeah, I’m fine,” said Lynne absentmindedly, rubbing her head which hit the man’s shoulder rather hardly. “Watch your way next time,” he picked up the papers, which fell all over the ground, and handed them to her. “Right, thanks.” Lynne took her hand off her head to accept the papers, but fate didn’t make it that easy. When she looked up, her eyes locked on his like magnets. His pupils were so dark, like black pearls washed by the ocean waves; but there is a touch of cold elegance under the majestic air. Cupid’s arrow finally found her and pushed her off into the river with no warning at all. That moment, she fell in love.

** TO BE CONTINUED **