to @ashdance ... for sulyu
❛ wait, is that mistletoe? ❜
"oh, fuck—"
in all honesty, braxton had completely forgotten abou it. the mistletoe has been up for so long that it's just part of the studio now. just another inside joke. he didn't think at all how it would look to sulyu. on a private tour of his workspace.
cheeks flame red as he yanks down the sprig, looking for somewhere to put it and decidedly not looking at sulyu's face. "one of my employees put it up," he hurries to explain. "at the beginning of december. as a joke. we've all been blowing each other kisses all month." it sounds so childish when he says it like that.
finally, braxton just tosses the mistletoe onto his workstation. he'll figure it out later. "anyway, uh, this is the sewing room! all the full bolts of fabric are in the storage room, but i keep a few yards of everything we have in stock in here, so that when i'm prototyping, i can actually have the fabric on hand to see what my options are, how different material lay, that sort of thing. like this design, on the mannequin, i've been figuring out what to use for the dress layer......."