Free Infinite Love by C. J. Fallowfield Page A

I’m there yet.’
    ‘Fat Buddha! You cheeky cow,’ I giggled as I whacked her. ‘I’d call you beanpole again, but I don’t want to risk you splitting one of Sofia’s pillows and emptying one of her expensive bottles of wine on my head.’
    ‘I can’t believe I did that,’ she laughed.
    ‘Me neither, you ruined that mattress. I swear you only did it so you could shift yours into my old room and have me buy you a Tempur memory foam one.’
    ‘As if I’d be clever enough to concoct an evil scheme like that,’ she gasped, then took a surprised look at my Pirates of the Caribbean heaving chest spilling over the top of my Basque.
    ‘Stop eyeing up my tits. Ever since that kiss in the lift you’ve been gagging for me,’ I giggled.’
    ‘I’ve not been gagging, or eyeing them up,’ she uttered, looking affronted. ‘But you’re waving them about in that push up corset and they’re big, my eyes are bound to go there because I’m jealous. There I’ve said it, I’m jealous of your big tits, always have been. Men love them.’
    ‘Men love your long legs,’ I reminded her.
    ‘I’d rather have your tits than my legs.’
    ‘Yeah, but you’d look stupid with no legs and then I’d have to rename you Pussy Walker.’
    ‘Christ,’ she laughed. ‘With no legs and your tits I wouldn’t be upright to even try walking. In fact, I wouldn’t even be face first on the ground as they’d hold me up. They’d have to call me Ramp.’
    ‘Stop it, you’ll make me cry,’ I laughed.
    ‘It’s nice to see you giggling again,’ she sighed as she looked at me seriously.
    ‘I know. I’m trying, honestly.’
    ‘ Very trying,’ she replied with a roll of her smiling eyes and threw me a dressing gown. We headed out to take a seat at the dining table. Mum, Sofia and Georgie were already waiting and we tucked into eggs benedict and champagne and by the time we got back to the lounge, there were racks upon racks of dresses, being supervised by Sofia’s personal stylist, Natalia.
    ‘O my God,’ I groaned. Much as I loved dresses and shopping, even I wasn’t relishing the thought of trying every single one of these on. I’d already narrowed it down by stipulating that I wanted a sleeveless sweetheart bodice with some sparkle and no trains, but even so, there were still too many. ‘Where do I start?’
    ‘Let’s do one rack at time and then break it up with Lexi and Georgie’s dresses,’ smiled Natalia.
    ‘But which rack, there’s so many.’ I ran my eyes over them all and stopped as something glinting in the sunlight caught my eye. I walked slowly over toward it and looked back at Natalia.
    ‘You can touch and pick them up,’ she laughed. I smiled and grasped the hanger and pulled it out.
    ‘Lexi, take it off me, quick take it off me,’ I yelled as I held it in my arms.
    ‘Mia, what’s wrong?’ she asked as she ran over and grabbed it as everyone looked at me horrified as I burst into tears.
    ‘I didn’t want to cry on it and ruin it.’
    ‘Mia, why are you so upset sweetheart?’ Mum asked as she came to give me a cuddle.
    ‘She’s just picked out her dress on the first go,’ smiled Natalie as she took it off Lexi and disappeared into the bedroom. ‘Come in when you’re ready to try it on,’ she called.
    ‘That was your dress?’ Lexi gasped. ‘But I didn’t even see it, I was too busy looking at you crying.’
    ‘Me too,’ nodded Sofia.
    ‘So go and try it on,’ coaxed Mum as she grabbed a tissue and dabbed my eyes. ‘But it’s the first dress you picked up, we have all day.’
    ‘Mum, it was just what I’d pictured in my head.’
    ‘Then don’t keep us waiting.’ Sofia scooted me into the bedroom and I started crying again as I saw it lying on the bed with Natalia standing next to it.
    ‘I can’t have found it already, it’s the first one I saw today,’ I sniffed.
    ‘The heart wants what the heart wants, Mia. Let’s try it on and see how you feel before we get everyone