It'll Come Naturally

"Mmm! Thanks! Joyce and Huey are at school right now?" Leena raised her head to look around. Rain's villa was not strange to her, but she found that many things were new this time. "Yeah! They'd raise a ruckus if they stayed home." Annie sat down opposite to Leena. They both were from well-off families, but Leena looked much quieter than Annie.

"That's right. I heard you registered for marriage. Congratulations! So when's the ceremony?" Leena congratulated Annie from the bottom of her heart. They were just like family. "Thanks! But we haven't planned a wedding ceremony," Annie looked at her in confusion.

"Maybe Rain wants to surprise you! He told me to design a unique wedding dress for you," Leena said. She had never worn a wedding dress. She wasn't quite sure how she felt about that. Regret, maybe? But all her regrets could change into happiness as long as she was together with the person she loved.

"Really? You're a designer?" Annie asked. Still with a suspicious attitude, she could not believe what Leena had said.

"Hmm! Yeah, I'm coming here to measure you. Something wrong?" Leena could not help but burst into laughter. Then she opened the bag she took with her and took out a tape measure and a notebook.

"No one told me," Annie said. She thought they were only registering for marriage. After all, they had already had two kids. She hadn't expected that he would give her a spectacular wedding ceremony. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't surprised.

"That's exactly why I said that it would be a surprise! Annie, I need to measure you now," Leena said, walking towards Annie, tape measure in hand.

"Okay," Annie stood up to cooperate, with an expression of shyness on her face. She had thought that Leena was a full-time housewife, but she turned out to be a designer too. Same as her, only that they designed different things.

"Hmm... you're in good shape. Standard BWH ratios," Leena could not help but praise Annie after measuring her vital statistics to make sure to get the right fit. Even she herself didn't have such nice proportions.

"I think you're in better shape," Annie replied. Standing side by side, Annie was shorter than Leena by about half a head. That was inevitable, because Leena was almost 5'6, while Annie was only a hair over 5'3. But Annie was taller than Michelle by about one or two inches. In other words, Michelle was the shortest one among them.

"I'm only a little taller than you. But I think I'm getting fat," Leena said sadly. That was her sore spot. Since she had given birth to Richard, she had gained a lot of weight. Although Kevin said he didn't care about all that, she had tried to shed the pounds as soon as Richard had been weaned. To her disappointment, she had unsatisfying results. She had only lost less than thirty pounds this year. She thought she would never get back in shape.

"You? Never! You're so skinny already. You don't want to end up anorexic," Annie said crossly. In her view, Leena was not fat at all. She was pleasingly plump, as they said.

"I know you're just being nice. I was a hundred before I became a mom. Now I'm over one hundred. How could you say that I'm not fat?!" Leena didn't like herself very much. She plateaued, and couldn't lose those last few pounds. Not only that, it seemed like she was regaining what she lost.

"I think a dozen pounds shouldn't matter at all. You look healthier, really, with more obvious assets," Annie said, glancing at Leena's breasts with a wicked expression in her eyes. Obviously she meant something sexual.

"Annie, does Rain know you're so evil?" Leena asked, covering her breasts with both her hands instantly, as if she was protecting herself from an indecent Annie.

"Do I know what?" Rain asked, walking inside the room. He was back home ahead of schedule as he felt uneasy about the meeting between Annie and Fred.

"Nothing. Why are you so early?" Annie cut off the previous topic hastily, because it was girl talk. He didn't need to know any of it.

"Oho. I knew Leena would be here, so I wasn't going to miss the chance to see her," Rain would never tell her that the reason he had come back home was that he had been worried about her, otherwise she might feel that he didn't trust her.

"Ah Really? Rain, I didn't tell you I would be here today. How did you know?" Leena nailed his lie relentlessly, making him feel miserable for quite a while.

"I swear I heard you say you'd be here in a day or two. I guessed right," Rain tried to justify himself while holding his breath and blaming Leena for not helping him make his lie plausible.

"Ha! You're not here to see me. You're here to see Annie. Right?" Leena curled her mouth. She didn't want to cooperate with him at all.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

"What?!" Annie flushed in shyness.

"Leena knows me too well," Rain finally admitted, bluntly.

"All right. I'm sure you two lovebirds need to be alone, so I'm not going to disturb you any longer," Leena made fun of them intentionally while packing up her things.

"Leaving so soon? Couldn't you stay a bit longer?" Annie was somewhat loath to part with her. Leena didn't stay long enough for them to get to know each other. She had just arrived and hadn't warmed up yet.

"Not interested in being a fifth wheel. Besides, Richard will cry for me soon," Leena explained with a guilty conscience.

"Come off it Leena. Don't even try to lie. Richard is a pretty quiet baby," Rain rolled his eyes. He thought Leena always liked lying through her teeth.

"None of your business! Annie, I'm headed back. When the design sketch is done, I'll bring it to you first. If you're not satisfied, I can fix it," Leena said, making a face at Rain. She was ready to leave.

"Hmm! Thanks! Be careful on your way back," Annie no longer tried to persuade her to stay longer since she insisted on leaving.

"Okay. Goodbye!" Leena waved her hand and walked out in a hurry. In fact, she was not eager to go home. Instead, she was eager to get to the army base to pick up Kevin. She heard that he had come back from an away mission, so she could not wait to see him. Since she hadn't seen him for a whole week, she missed him a lot.

"Why didn't you tell me you asked Leena to design a wedding dress for me?" Annie reproached Rain while looking at him flirtatiously. As bad as he was, sometimes he was so very, very good.

"It was supposed to be a surprise. But she said that you wore too many clothes to figure it out discretely. So, she had to come here to measure you in person," Rain felt a bit regretful, but a surprise was less important than a beautiful wedding dress. "Then what about your dress suit? Her brand also?" Annie was somewhat curious. She wondered how good Leena was.

"Yeah! She designed the wedding dress for Belinda and the suit for Duke when they got married! They were beautiful. So I decided to have her work her magic on us. We shouldn't belittle her. After all, she is the brand designer of LN," Rain said, which he hadn't known in the beginning. Leena had hid that from everyone for some time.

"Really? She's that high-up, huh?!" Annie was so surprised that she opened her mouth. It was really shocking news for her, because LN had branched out into various fields, and their new products had always sold out in the shortest time, creating a legendary fairy tale in the fashion circles. Annie had never imagined that she'd ever get to meet a big name designer, much less a nice one like Leena.

"Yeah! She's excellent! That's why I asked her for help. She agreed to help because we know her. If someone else asked her to design a dress, she would probably blow them off. She's good to her friends," Rain said proudly. Although she had to look after Richard recently, her prestige had risen step by step. So Leena was a role model: a successful woman who neglected neither family nor career.

"Oh wow! I need to get her autograph!" Annie was more than a little excited.

"Come on! Are you kidding?!" Rain was left almost speechless, a rare event.

"If you enter our field one day, you will know how much we worship a talented designer," Annie was not exaggerating. As a designer who hadn't made it past the local scene, she was still inferior to a big brand like Leena's.

"Probably not, But it's fine with me. You don't understand my world, and I don't understand yours, either." Rain said, shaking his head. Fortunately Leena was a female. If she were a man, Rain would be sure to envy her because of Annie's admiration.00000000000