LEMONADE|| Keith Powers

Chapter 68: FINALE

"I can't believe you finally have your own bridal store; it's so pretty" Erica visited on her lunch break. She was a reporter from TMZ. "I can't believe it either, a lot of hard work and dedication was what it took," I said steaming the bottom of a few of the gowns. I had about 10 bridal appointments today. It was wedding season and everyone wanted to try on my dresses. After my appearance on Project Runway, my followers skyrocketed. I was invited to participate in New York Fashion Week, Bridal Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week. I also appeared in Yes to the Dress and Atlanta House Wives. "Hey Josie, your 12 o clock appointment had to reschedule to 12:45 is that okay? Rebecca my assistant asked. "Yes that's fine, can you please fill up the refreshment area? I asked. "Yes, already on it" she said. It was Morgan's idea for the refreshment area. Every day I made cucumber water and fresh lemonade for my clients to have as well as have cupcakes delivered here. "Thank you" I smiled. "Okay big boss," she said.

"I should say that about you and the baby," I said. She rubbed her belly "Girl, I don't know how I do it. I can't believe my ass is having a baby" she leaned over grabbing a cupcake. "I gotta go back to work," she said. "Is Denzel picking you up? I asked. "Yeah, he doesn't let me leave his sight," she said. Erica ended up dating ghostwriter and producer Zel that blew up overnight their story actually didn't start off great. Erica was working for The shade room for some time and wrote a report on him and his ex-girlfriend about an alleged physical fight between them. The girl was bitter because he broke up with her and lied on him. He got mad and put Erica on blast for doing her job, typical fuck boy shit. They ran into each other again at a Young Hollywood event and they hashed it out. Now they're together and engaged. The story sounds so familiar I don't understand why these guys react first ask questions later

As she left I pulled out my favorite dress I made years ago. I always envisioned myself in this dress. Hell, I may even take this one off the market and take it to my house or keep it when Morgan gets married. I quickly stripped from my clothes. I stepped in the dress pulling it up. I looked in the mirror adjusting my strap. I smiled holding my waist looking at my slender physique. I lost so much weight from heartbreak, stress and just working a lot. I was on a mission to get it back. I looked up seeing a man in a suit holding some flowers I glanced closer and it was no other than Ricky Santana standing against the wall with his suit and tie. "Don't kill em" he spoke. I haven't seen this guy in ages and here I am frozen but also blushing hard as well. I turned around "T-thankyou" I smiled slowly walking towards him. He handed me a bouquet of roses. "Wow, I don't even know what to say, long time no see," I said looking him up and down. He looked great healthier but most importantly still fine. "Yeah, It's been a minute. I'm real proud of you. I heard you've opened a shop, so I had to check it out" he looked around. "Yeah, its all me" I blushed uncontrollably smelling the roses he got me. "This is your baby you better take care of it," he said. "I most definitely will," I said."You look amazing in that dress" he said. I looked down "This thing-

 "I love you, Josie," he said.

"Huh? What? I asked.

"Josie"

"I love-

"Josie"

I woke up looking around. "You okay girl? Zach asked. "Yeah, I had another crazy dream," I said. "Timothy wants you for the green room," he said. "Okay, I'm coming," I said. I got up fixing myself. I've been grinding my ass off for 6 hours straight filming. We had to remake these hideous dresses we were given in 24 hours. This was now episode 6 and it was starting to get challenging. The first challenge was to create a gown inspired by a Disney movie, the second was a gown made out of paper, the third challenge was a gown inspired by the seasons, the fourth was a gown inspired by the Renaissance era, the 5th was a freestyle and this one was to reinvent a dress. I have not been eliminated yet or almost eliminated so that's been good. The only problem I have is there's another black woman named Jelani Parrish and she is fire. She's definitely competition and she knows it, what makes it worst is she has an attitude problem with everybody. I sighed from the dumbest dream I had. I haven't heard from Ricky almost in a month. I know in his world things can get crazy but I didn't want to harass him. I want him to check on me as well. If anything was ever wrong, I would hope that he would just tell me or just tell me that he has a lot of shit going on right now because now I think I just got cut off, but we'll see what happens. I can't keep dwelling on a relationship that wasn't even real, to begin with. I gotta get to the money. I walked in the green room sitting down as they fixed my hair. "You ready? Shawn the cameraman asked.