The Color of Peaches and Plums
READING AGE 12+
At our engagement party, Adrian told me the photographs would look better if I stood behind the flowers. I smiled for the camera, then watched him use the same soft voice he used whenever he wanted to make a cruelty sound like a favor. For six years, my childhood friend had promised we would marry after his next promotion, after his family's store reopened, after I lost the weight he said made me look "too much." Now his company was preparing to launch the clothing line I had built with my own hands, and he wanted my designs without my face attached to them. I could protect the work, but not without risking everything I had built. If I stopped waiting for Adrian to choose me, would I still know what I wanted?
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The sale of the studio closed in March.
I stood in the empty space before the keys changed hands. The windows were covered with dust, and the walls looked too pale without the sketches and shelves. The first dress was already packed in a garment bag on the back seat of my car.
The buyer was a small architecture firm. They had agre……
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