Legislators: A Short Story

Marco picks up the sleek grey wireless phone only to answer to the doorman saying that the summer prototype package has arrived. Marco screams to Davanee “the prototypes have arrived!” The two of them run to the lobby, the clicks of Davanee’s heels keeping time as she runs down the stairs. Ripping open the package excitedly, Davanee shrieks “what the…?” Marco comes up behind her to see what’s wrong and sees that all the colors and patterns for the summer line that goes out in a week is completely wrong. “Dave, what are we going to do?! We can’t send out the line like this!” Marco says worriedly with his lip quivering. Dave marches to the phone in the lobby of the Calvin Klein building in New York City with glass walls and chandeliers and black and white decor everywhere to call the manufacturing company to ask what happened to the prototypes. “I didn’t order this, what am I supposed to do with your screw up?” She slams the receiver down before they can answer. “Marco, we have to work with what we have and we have two days and one night to get it done.”

They threw all the items on the ground and start matching pieces up and adding accessories to make the new pieces work. What was supposed to be a black bikini bottom with a neon orange ruffled strapless bikini top actual was made in a ballet pink leopard bottom with a dull orange ruffled strapless top- the designs were all right but the patterns are colors were wrong. They took a purple fabric and made a contrasting lines on the orange top while cutting off the ruffles and matched that with a purple bottom. They put the leopard bottoms with a simple black top. They worked day and night to do this with all the items until they had a