Fashion Faux Pas
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Please note: This is a novelette. Shorter fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.
The unthinkable has happened. The Fashion Council have discovered the fashion fraud and are threatening to close down the business.
Fashion designer Truly Winx and her business partner Jane Davis are devastated. As the truth comes out and unravels before their eyes, they beg the council for leniency.
Meanwhile, the girls have been invited to attend Paris Fashion Week. But unless they can get the fashion council to agree, they won’t be able to attend. And Truly is determined to make it.
Find out how it all ends in the final chapter of the Fashion Series where fashion fraud is a serious offence.
Also in the series:
Fashion Fraud
Fashion Friends
Fashion Finds
Fashion Faux Pas
The Fashion Fraud Collection (Grab all four together and save $)
Jamie Campbell
Jamie was born into a big, crazy family of 6 children. Being the youngest, she always got away with anything and would never shut up. Constantly letting her imagination run wild, her teachers were often frustrated when her 'What I did on the weekend' stories contained bunyips and princesses.Growing up, Jamie did the sensible things and obtained a Bachelor of Business degree from Southern Cross University and worked hard to gain her membership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.Yet nothing compared to writing. Quiting the rat race to spend quality time with her laptop named Lily, Jamie has written several novels and screenplays. Spanning a number of genres and mediums, Jamie writes whatever inspires her from ghost stories to teenage love stories to tantalising murder mysteries. Nothing is off limits.A self-confessed television addict, dog lover, Taylor Swift fan, and ghost hunter, Jamie loves nothing more than the thrill of sharing her stories.
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Fashion Faux Pas - Jamie Campbell
FASHION FAUX PAS
Fashion Faux Pas:
A Fashion Story
Part 4
JAMIE CAMPBELL
Copyright © 2014 Jamie Campbell
Smashwords Edition
Jamie Campbell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author.
CHAPTER 1
According to my teachers, my mother, my school principal, and pretty much everyone else who knew me, I didn’t respect authority figures.
If you were to read my report card, it would say this several times over. It was kind of really true. I didn’t like being told what to do and I wasn’t afraid of telling the person where they could put their orders.
But not today.
My business partner, Jane, and I were called to appear before the fashion council. Holly, the woman pretending to own our business, was also summoned. We sat in a row across from the five council members who scowled at us at any chance they got.
If we were up against any other council in the world, I probably wouldn’t care. I would sit back, cross my arms, and set my face to an infuriating blank stare. Words would escape my lips that weren’t polite and I wouldn’t listen to anything they had to say.
But here? In front of the fashion council?
I was terrified.
There was nothing I wanted more in the world than to be a fashion designer. Jane and I were doing really well too with our business, Every Girl Inc. Until our big secret was discovered, anyway. Because we were only sixteen, Holly was pretending to be the designer while we worked in the background.
We were committing fashion fraud and we got caught.
End of story, really.
The five people – two men and three women – sitting across from us were going to decide our fate. If they closed us down, my record would always be marred. Nobody would want to hire me as a fashion designer if I was involved in such a scandal.
Tell me what happened,
the man in the middle ordered.
I was sitting between Holly and Jane. Both wore looks akin to startled rabbits. I guessed it was up to me. Jane and I wanted to start our own fashion business but we were too young. So Holly agreed to do it for us if we did all the work.
Simple, really.
The man seemed to think it was more complicated. You thought it was a good idea to deceive all your customers? Everyone in the industry?
We weren’t purposefully deceiving them. We were still delivering everything they wanted. The only difference was I was designing the clothes instead of Holly.
He crinkled his nose like he suddenly smelled something bad. Perhaps somebody had a burrito for lunch. Why didn’t you merely wait another two years until you were old enough to do it yourself?
Patience wasn’t my middle name. Because we were told our clothes were good enough now. We didn’t want to wait any longer.
His eyes flicked to my co-accused. And you two agree with this story?
They both nodded. He shuffled the papers laid out on the table in front of him, buying some time and ramping up the anticipation by a thousand percent.
I chewed on my lip so I wouldn’t say anything more. I wanted to throw myself across the room at him, begging and pleading for mercy. I wanted to make it clear that I had never wanted anything as badly as I wanted to be a fashion designer. I wanted him to know it was a life or death situation he held in his hands.
But instead, I sat there like a well behaved teenager. I took my lead from Jane, politely holding my hands together on the table and not fidgeting. It was difficult to do.
The room was so quiet I thought for sure the others would be able to hear my heartbeat pounding away in my chest.
Finally, the man licked his lips before taking a breath. "I have your written answers and it doesn’t seem like you’ve got anything further to add. We will deliberate and advise you in writing of