Episode 3, "Confessions of a Dress Designer" (Printable Version)

Scene 1- The Sterling Building

The cleaning crew of the Sterling building progressively cleaned the lobby, one of the janitors pushed a vacuum past Felicia's office as Sharon slammed the door shut. Inside, Sharon turned to Felicia who sat at her desk softly sobbing, still upset after receiving a photograph of herself and Demetrius making love, from an unknown source. Felicia feared that if someone else knew her secret than pretty soon the whole world would know too.

"Felicia I'm not going to preach to you but this is a very careless mistake, honey you're married! Did you forget or something?" Sharon asked handing her sister a Kleenex.

Felicia looked up at Sharon too ashamed to answer the question, she took the tissue and wiped her eyes. Felicia has always had a thing for Demetrius and she did not regret sleeping with him, the only thing she was sorry for was getting caught in the act but she still had no intentions of stopping the affair.

Sharon laughed in amazement that Felicia still hadn't answered her question, "So your not going to give me an explanation. Typical Felicia." she stated becoming frustrated.

Sharon always found herself bailing her older sister out situations.

"Well at least tell me how long this has been going on." Sharon commanded.

Felicia looked up at Sharon exhaling, this was something she did not want to do.

"Sharon, I don't even know where to start. There has been so many times." she admitted.

"The first time was in this office." she explained

Sharon frowned not wanting to touch anything, "I hope I haven't sat in any of the spots you've made love in, My god Felicia!" she complained

Felicia lowered her eyes at Sharon, "Look are you going to listen or not?" she asked

Sharon crossed her arms very interested to hear how this fiasco started, "Yes, this has to be very interesting compared to my dull and boring life. So yeah go ahead spill it."

Scene 2- The San Diego Convention Center   

Back at the San Diego Convention Center, the crowd was being entertain by music played by one of the local bands as they waited impatiently for Sterling Clothing who was supposed to hit the runway hours ago..

In the balcony, Melanie leant over to Demetrius and asked, "Sweets, what is going on? Wasn't Sterling suppose to be on by now?"

Demetrius was big on  being on time and expected almost everything he did to occur on it's scheduled time. If things didn't weren't on time, Demetrius turned ugly and everyone around him suffered dearly.

"I thought so. Something must be wrong." Demetrius replied standing up, "I'll be back I'm going to go see." he growled as he rushed out.

Panic and confusion filled the Sterling dressing room, as the stylists, models and interns ran wild trying figure out how to fix the ripped sleeves in dresses.

Travis and Paige made their way through to Gloria who held up one of the torn dresses, in disgust.

"Travis were not going to be able to perform, look at these dresses their ruined." she exclaimed sadly. "What are we going to do? We can't go out there. This will ruin Sterling's reputation!"

Randy hurried over, "Honestly, sis I think the dresses are fine. I mean it gives a type of...swing to it." Randy suggested intrigued as he examined the dress. "And we have to do something, we were suppose to go over two hours ago!"

Travis snatched the dress from Gloria and held it up to the mirror, to get a better look at it "It's not like the dresses are cut down the middle. Gloria, I think we can figure something out."

Travis looked at Paige and shrugged, "Paige what do you think?" he asked hoping she would agree.

Paige crossed her arms and tilted her head a bit to the left scoping the dress, "It could work." She smiled now brimming with ideas, she placed her right pointer finger on her right cheek, "You know, we could change the model's hair and..."

Gloria shook her head not liking thing any of the ideas that they were coming up with, "...No, no...no. This isn't going to fly, okay? Unless you all can up with 27 new dresses in 15 minutes. This show isn't going to happen." She yelled.

Randy rolled his eyes annoyed by his sister's remark, he slowly studied the dress the realized someone ripped the dresses. "You know what, you guys figure this out. Someone is out to get us!" he explained storming off.

"Hold on... Hold on! Where are you going?" Travis asked.

Randy turned around and faced the three, "I'm going to find out who did this!" he snapped back, continuing out the door.

Paige quickly followed, "Hold on, I'm coming too." she stated following behind Randy, "Travis try talking some sense into your sister. We need to do something before your father finds out!"

Scene 3- San Diego Convention Center

Jackie sat crying outside behind the dumpster starring at the stars the light up the sky, as she held the letter she just read from her mother. Jackie didn't remember her mother but after hearing all of the awful things about her, she didn't want to even be in the state as her.

Gino, her boyfriend crashed out the backdoor and noticed Jackie, he crossed his arms walking over to her, "Marie told me I should come out here and check on you. What's going on?" he asked.

Jackie looked up at Gino frowning as she handing him the letter, "Read this! It's from my mother." she said softly.

"Your real mom?" he replied.

Jackie nodded slowly biting her bottom lip.

He quickly skimmed through the letter, Gino hated reading very long paragraphs. Mumbling a few words to himself, he finally got to the main part, "and soon you will know the truth about your family?" he read aloud, putting his hand on his hip becoming dumbfounded.

"I don't get it. What did your family do?" he promptly asked.

Jackie stood up throwing her hands up as gave up on the situation, "I don't know Gino." she whined, "I've been trying to figure that out for the past twenty minutes."

Gino stuffed his hands in his pockets beginning to feel awkward he didn't want to say anything to upset her any worse then she already was.

"Well has your dad or Lisa ever said anything about your real mom?" he inquired.

Jackie nodded, "Well yeah, I was with her until I was three." she explained, "My mother brought me here when she found out my father was marrying Lisa. They told me that she held them at gun point during their wedding ceremony. Before she was arrested she begged my dad to watch over me and one day she would be back to get me. But she never came back."

She laughed to herself remember what her father also told her, "My dad told me one time that if he knew I had been born he would've kidnapped and brought me back to San Diego with him." she revealed to Gino as tears slowly became to fall down her face, worried something may happen to her or her father.

"Gino, I'm scared!" she whispered.

Gino smiled weakly, as he walked over to Jackie and wrapping his arms around her.

Scene 4- The Sterling Building

The elevator doors opens and Joshlynne sped into the empty lobby as she made her way down the hall. As she turned the corner, as the sound of the rattling vacuum cleaner grew closer and quickly ducked into the break room. Joshlynne didn't want to be seen meddling around the Sterling Building after hours, after all it would ruin her plans of destroying Demetrius and Melanie's marriage.

Joshlynne tapped her left foot, eager for the janitor with the annoying vacuum to pass by. She surveyed the break room making sure she was only person inside. She noticed what seemed to be piece of paper lying on the counter top.

"What is this?" she whispered to herself interested, as she picked up the note. It was a ripped page out of Demetrius daily planner.

"Meet Melanie at the Bistro, 7 o'clock sharp on Wednesday." she read to herself.

"That'll be perfect." she stated with an evil grin, "Watching Demetrius react seeing a photo of him and Felicia making love in front of Melanie will be a scene to die for." she exclaimed clutching the piece of paper in her right hand.

Leaning back on the counter, she beamed with joy thinking about what it would be like to be the first lady of Sterling Clothing Inc. "In due time I'll be Mrs. Demetrius Sterling." she smiled, biting her bottom lip.

As the sound from the deranged vacuum grew softer, Joshlynne darted out of the break room and hurried down the hall. She walked up to Felicia's door and slowly grabbed the knob. She had plans to leave a "hush" note of Felicia's desk instructing her to come with 25,000 dollars or KIOU News Station would receive a copy of the photo.

Felicia's voice softly carried out into the hallway, "Sharon, I never meant to hurt anyone." Felicia pleaded as she continued to cry.

Joshlynne snatched her hand back overhearing Felicia and Sharon's conversation through the walls. She smiled devilishly wanting to hear the rest of the conversation, it was possible that she could find out something to use against Felicia.

Joshlynne and Felicia both knew each other had feelings for Demetrius and Joshlynne hated that Felicia was the first one to sleep with Demetrius.

Back inside Felicia walked over to the window, closing it she was paranoid that someone could be listening in from outside.

"But Sharon when you love someone the way that I love Demetrius, what am I to do?" Felicia asked wiping away tears with her tissue. "I saw a chance when he asked me to stay after hours to work on our designs for the show." she explain.

"While we we're working, we had a deep conversation about of lives. He admitted he was going bored with Melanie and felt it could be time for a change." she added.

"I know I'm wrong for this but I couldn't help myself. William and I haven't been happy with each other for a while and I wanted to the sense of security of being in someone's arms and he fit the description perfectly." she revealed with an aroused look as she slowly sat down in her office chair.

Sharon hurried and sat down in the seat in front of Felicia's desk beginning to figure out that Felicia came on to Demetrius, "So let me get this straight, you seduced him?" she asked.

Felicia narrowed her eyes at Sharon, becoming annoyed "Well if that's what you want to call it, then yeah... I seduced Demetrius Sterling." she quickly snapped back.

Scene 5- Sterling Dressing Room

Back in the confused dressing room, one of the models dressed in a navy blue dress with a ripped sleeve stepped on the pedestal, as Travis stood with his hands placed on his hips analyzing the dress, he noted that her dress would have looked amazing if the ripped sleeve had been off in the beginning.

"Ok lets try this." he suggested ripping the sleeve completely off.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" Gloria yelled storming over to Travis and the model.

"I told you we're not going on with holily rags." she abruptly reminded him.

Travis sighed becoming angry, he and Gloria never really saw eye to eye on anything. "Damn it Gloria, we can make this work, we've come too far to let an obstacle like this hold us back."

"And taint the Sterling name? Honey, I don't think so." she quickly replied.

A angry Demetrius burst in, "Does someone mind telling me what the hell is going on? " he shouted in anger.

Gloria and Travis looked at each other, as Demetrius approached them, neither one of them wanted to be on the receiving end of Demetrius' rage "Sterling was suppose to hit the runway hours ago, PEOPLE ARE STARTING LEAVE! WHAT DID YOU TWO DO?" he asked sternly.

Gloria looked at Travis and taking a step back, she figured she put all the blame of him. It was childish but Gloria felt it was either him or herself and she'd be damned if she was going down.

"Go on and tell him, Travis. Tell daddy that someone cut up our dresses and you want the show to continue." she revealed to her father.

Demetrius eyes widen in shock, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. How could some sabotage some of the best designs he ever created, especially since they were design during the heat of passion he shared with Felicia on his drawing table.

"Let me see one of the dresses." he summoned in a calm voice, trying to control his anger. Demetrius had a terrible temper and had a hard time controlling it.

Gloria and Travis moved aside and the model displayed the one sleeved dress.

"See! Look at it, it's not that bad is?" Travis voiced, cutting his eyes at Gloria. Gloria always put him out on the hanger to dry.

A smile slowly came to Demetrius face, relieved that Travis had came up with a backup plan. He always taught his kids to have a Plan B in life.

 "Well it's not really that bad. As  a matter of fact it looks astonishing." he said agreeing with Travis.

Gloria huffed, disappointed that she didn't get her way as her father continued.

"...and if I'm not mistaken Felicia drew that one with one sleeve then changed it." he added.

Travis grinned now filled with hope that they could turn this disaster into a masterpiece, but most importantly he had his father backing him.

"Dad most of these designs have one sleeve or both the sleeves hanging off." Travis pointed out. "We could ripped the sleeves off and wing it."

Impressed by his son's idea he nodded in agreement, he face Gloria, "Well honey, what do you think?"

Gloria rolled her eyes and crossed her arms as if she was a child pouting because she didn't get her toy, "Okay I guess." she quietly said.

"But don't come crying to me, if this plan back fires." she warned pointing her finger at them both as if she was their mother.

Travis smiled at his father then looked around at everyone in the room who looked at him waiting on instructions, "ALRIGHT EVERYONE, ALL THE SLEEVES HANGING OFF, JUST RIP THEM OFF COMPLETELY." he explain.

As continued Travis gave instructions to the crew and models, Demetrius beamed with joy believing this could actually work.

Scene 6- San Diego Convention Center

Randy and Paige hurried through the lobby, although Paige was unsure where they were headed. She figured Randy knew who to go talk to. She and Randy were a duo when it came to arguing with anyone.

Someone grabbed Paige's arm causing her to stop her dead in her tracks, she became furious under the impression that it was Maurice. Paige recently broke her affair off with in him in hopes of saving her marriage to Anthony

 "My god, Maurice I told you we can't...." She gasped realizing it was Anthony.

"Umm babe what are you talking about?" Anthony asked with a faint laugh. Anthony felt something was going on between Paige and his best friend Maurice but he didn't want to believe it. His love her blinded him from seeing the truth.

Paige laughed a bit, to ease the feeling of embarrassment, "Maurice has been pestering me to do a interview with Eva for their new show." she lied.

Anthony grew excited, interested to hear more, "Oh man, you know that's a great opportunity to try something new." he acknowledged.

Paige frowned not wanting to push this lie any further, then she jumped from excitement remembering the ripped dresses, "Oh my god Anthony, do you know someone ripped our dresses?" she said touching his arm.

Anthony took a sip of his champagne glass, "Oh really? So that's why it's taking so long." he replied pretending to care. Fashion really wasn't Anthony's thing but he supported his wife and friends.

"So what are you guys going to do?" he asked.

Paige shrugged, "I don't know when I left Travis and Gloria were arguing, I'm not sure what's going to happen." she answered beginning to grow weary, nothing like this never happened before.

Anthony smiled kissing her on the cheek for reassurance, he could tell in her voice she was worried, "Babe don't worry about it, everything will work out okay. It always does." he stated with an American boy grin.

Maurice walked up, placing a hand on Anthony's shoulder, "Hey man I didn't know you were going to be here." he said, winking a Paige. Maurice enjoying taunting Paige in front of Anthony, it was as if he wanted Anthony to find out and their affair.

"Having a good time?" he asked.

Anthony chuckled a bit, "It's okay, you know I'm not that big on fashion shows but whatever." he admitted wrapping an arm around Paige.

"By the way, I've tried talking Paige into doing that interview for KIOU." he explained. Anthony figured he'd bring the interview to see if Paige was really telling the truth.

Paige looked away not expecting her husband to bring that topic back up. Hopefully Maurice would go along with what Anthony was saying.

Maurice grinning figuring out that Paige lied to Anthony, "Oh yes and as a matter of fact I wanted to steal her away for a moment so we could talk about that. Is that alright with you?" he requested.

Anthony nodded, "sure go head." he confirmed. "Paige I'll talk to you later okay?"

Paige faked a smiled, not wanting to go "Yes." she replied before kissing him softly, "I love you." she whisper, but was loud enough so Maurice could hear.

Maurice and Paige walked off toward the kitchen leaving Anthony a bit suspicious.

Anthony walked past Jonathan and his Katrina who stood by the balcony being drinking champagne as they celebrated the success of Veritas' new dress line. Sterling Clothing, his competition still hadn't perform which gave him the right to count tonight's even as a win.

"Everyone seemed to love your designs, darling" she exclaim from excitement, "And did you see that last model, and how elegant she was with that closing pose." she said mocking the pose that the final model did at the end of the show.

Katrina turned around and trotted over to Jonathan kissing him softly, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I hear the phones in the office ringing already." Jonathan grinned, "Hello, where can I get one of those fabulous Veritas Originals." Jonathan's goal was to get more sells than his rival Demetrius.

"I wouldn't get too comfortable." Randy huffed, crossing his arms as he approached the pair. Randy suspected the two of cutting the sleeves off of their dresses.

"Are you two really that desperate that you'd have someone rip our dresses?" he asked.

Annoyed by Randy's interruption, Katrina laid her glass down on the banister then slowly approached Randy, "Listen Wonder Boy, no one has done anything to those distasteful Sterling rags." she denied.

"Aren't you all supposed to be performing?" Jonathan asked, trying to hold in his laughter, "You all are not scared are you?"

Randy laughed at the two, "You two know what you've done and let me explain something to you. You didn't hurt us you've helped us and..." he pointed out.

Jonathan and Katrina exploded with laughter cutting his statement off.

"Listen bud, my wife told you we had nothing to do with the mishap of Demetrius' dresses." he recapped, placing a hand on Randy's shoulder, "but look on the bright side, everyone all had a great time. At least we did."

Jonathan grew concern as his noticed the band leaving the stage, "What the hell?"

Cheers roared through the room as Travis made his way to the stage. Jonathan, Katrina and Randy rushed back in the room to discovered Sterling was beginning their performance. Jonathan and Katrina were filled with shock and disappointment with their plan beginning to unravel in front of their eyes.

"We apologize for the inconvenience but when it comes to fashion, there is no time limit." Travis said noticing the surprised look on Jonathan and Katrina's faces.

"I hope you all have had a great time this evening. But everything is just getting started, Sterling Clothing is going to show you what to wear when you're out painting the town red. I present to you, Sterling Clothing." he announced before walking backstage.

The lights dimmed as Jay-Z's Hollywood began to play. Within in ten seconds of the songs the Sterling models began to ripped the runway in their altered dresses, which looked as if nothing had happened to them.

Randy turned and faced a pale face Jonathan, "I won't say I told you so." he lied, "but I told you so."

Scene 7- The San Diego Convention Center

Maurice and Paige hurried through the lobby, passing Paul her father in law who was having an intense conversation with one of his waiters who had a question about fuse that went out in one of the stove in the kitchen.

Paige stopped near the kitchen not wanting to go any further, "Maurice this is over. How many times do I have to tell you." she whispered as Gino, Anthony's little brother passed with a tray of food.

Maurice grabbed her hand kissing it softly, "Paige don't fight the feelings you have for me. I know the situation is wrong but what we have isn't. Why can't you see that." he asked.

Paige quickly snatched her hand back, "Why can't you see that we're hurting the people around us?" she quickly snapped back.

"I LOVE MY HUSBAND!" she shouted beginning to cry. "I'm sorry Maurice but this over."

Maurice shook his head vigorously, "Not even." he stated before grabbing her face, pulling it to his as he kissed her passionately.

A teary eyes Paige slowly fell into kiss as she punched Maurice's biceps frustrated that she was going back to square one with him.

Around the corner, Gino stopped in front of Paul, "Dad this is the last of food." he told his father, taking a sample for himself. Gino loved his father's cooking.

Paul snatched it Gino just before he was back to put in his mouth, "I bet it is if you keep eating." he said grinning. "Now get that out, we have to clean up."

Gino smiled nodding his head as he walked into the main room.

Paul watched his son leave, he grinned realizing how proud he was of Gino. He laughed to him self heading around the corner to go to the kitchen to take care of the fuse that went out in the stove. He stop seeing Paige, his daughter in law and Maurice in the middle of a kiss.

"Oh no, Anthony." he thought to himself, he quickly hurried off  not to be caught by the two love birds.

The Sterling Building

Stilling standing outside of Felicia's office, Joshlynne kneeled down and placed her ear to the door still listening to the conversation going on inside between Felicia and Sharon.

Sharon placed her hand on her forehead massaging it, trying to ease the headache she had from the confusing story Felicia just told her.

"So let me get this straight, this all started this summer and it's been going on ever since." she stated reviewing the facts.

"Well answer this for me, what are you going to do if William finds out." she asked.

Felicia rose quickly and hurried over to Sharon covering her mouth, "William is not going to find out! Do you understand me?!?" she ordered in desperation. Felicia realized that this whole time she hadn't thought about William finding out.

"I need to be able to trust you." she explained as tears began to fall from her eyes. "I'll lose everything if any one knew what I just told you.

Sharon pushed Felicia's hand away then frowned nodding her head, "Felicia you can trust me."

Sharon took a good look at Felicia and snickered softly, "Felicia you look like a clown. Your make up is all over your face." she pointed out.

Felicia gasped from embarrassment, she ran to the mirror, "Oh my god Sharon I have to fix this and get back to the show." she exclaimed.

Sharon grabbed her hand, "Come on, Well fix it on the way to the Convention Center." she assured her. "Now come on we have to get back."

Felicia smiled glad that she had such an understanding sister. She grabbed her hand. "thank you."

Sharon grinned, "Your welcome."

The two flew out of the office and around the corner, heading towards the elevator.

Joshlynne stood up after darting behind Felicia's secretary's desk. A devilish smirk came across her face as she realized she could destroy Demetrius and Melanie's marriage and ruin Felicia at the same time. 

"This is going to be like killing two birds with one stone." she stated to herself, "Perfect!"

...Forever Never Seems That Long...

Next Time on Forever & A Day

 Demetrius decides it time for change in Sterling Clothing.

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