In a blink of an eye it was the weekend.
The two were going to see the house. When they left the house, Uncle Jung hurriedly packed two umbrellas for them, saying that today’s weather forecast had rain, and placed them in the car as spares to be used so they can avoid being caught in the rain.
Jennie thanked him, took the umbrellas and drove away with Lisa.
Half an hour later, the two arrived at the parking lot outside the workplace. Jennie found Rosie’s car parked there. Knowing that Rosie had arrived, she took Lisa straight to the studio.
”Lisa, look, that’s where I work.” When approaching, Jennie pointed to the direction of the studio and introduced it to Lisa.
Lisa serious looked at the studio’s door where Jennie pointed at, then replied: “I remember.”
”Let’s go in, Rosie has been waiting for us.” Jennie held Lisa’s hand, quickly walked a few steps, stepped up to the door and pushed it, and shouted loudly inside, “Rosie, we’re here.”
”I’m in the materials room.” Rosie’s voice came from inside.
”Let’s go inside.” Jennie led Lisa to the material room, which wasn’t big. As soon as they entered, they saw Rosie, who was sorting leather.
”Rosie, the materials and tools for customized leather shoes were delivered? When did they arrive?” Jennie looked at the material room, which was more substantial than the previous two days, and was surprised. In addition to selling shoes online, their studio also included customization of high-end leather shoes, but the tools and materials for customization weren’t fully prepared.
”It was delivered yesterday afternoon.” Rosie replied.
“Then why didn’t you ask me to come and organize them together.” Preparing the studio for opening, most of the work was done by Rosie alone. She didn’t do much except drew a few designs and felt embarrassed for a long time.
“Didn’t you go back to see your uncle and aunt yesterday? Anyway, I’m also idle, so I won’t hinder the couple from going home to visit their relatives.” Rosie placed the last piece of leather in place, turned around with a smile and saw Lisa standing at the door at a glance.
”It’s a hundred times better to see than to hear ah.” Rosie sighed suddenly.
”What?”
”A real person is more handsome than a photo.” Rosie quietly winked towards her friend.
Jennie returned a proud look, then waved to the door for Lisa to come over. She smiled and introduced the two to each other: “Lisa, this is my good friend and partner Rosie. Rosie, this is Lisa, my husband.”
”Hello, Jennie’s husband.” Rosie understood Lisa’s situation and knew she wasn’t good connecting with people, so she actively reached out to express her friendliness.
Jennie’s husband?
Lisa’s eyes brightened: “Hello.” Lisa raised her hand and touched Rosie’s hand, then quickly put it down.
Lisa’s handshake was very short, instead it can be said it was a touch, but her action still surprised Jennie: “Rosie, this is the first time I saw Lisa shaking hands with others, it seems she likes you very much.”
”Really?”
”Really, last time we went to the cherry orchard, Irene’s hand was raised for several minutes, and Lisa ignored her.” Jennie explained.
”It seems that I’m more charming than Irene ah.” Rosie jokingly asked Lisa, “Right?”
Unfortunately, Lisa didn’t answer her this time, just kept a light smile and stood quietly at the side.
Seeing Lisa ignored her, Rosie wasn’t angry, and didn’t continue to ask. As Jennie said, Lisa was able to take the initiative to shake hands with her, she was already surprised. Rosie changed the topic and said: “You take your husband to tour our studio. There’s still a little bit of leather left to be organized. When I’m done, I’ll go out and find you.”
”I’ll help you organize it together.” Jennie picked up a box and walked to the shelf.
”It’s okay, hurry and get out of here.” Rosie grabbed the box, then pushed Jennie out the door. When Lisa saw her wife left, she naturally followed her.
”I will be finished in ten more minutes, wait for me outside.” After that, Rosie directly shut the door.
This person… Jennie knew that Rosie was worried that if she helped organized, Lisa would be left out, but where was Lisa so delicate?
”Then… let’s go tour the studio.” Jennie smiled and began to show Lisa around the studio.
”The studio is in its infancy, so there’s not many people, plus there’s four people in total. This is my desk.” Jennie first took Lisa to visit her desk, “but when I draw designs, I like to go sit at the coffee bar up front, it’s over there. Sitting there, you can see the outside through the floor to ceiling window, so that you can have a wider view and your thinking will become more flexible.”
”Behind is our warehouse, I won’t take you there. Anyway, there’s only three shoes and you’ve worn them.” Since buying those three pairs of shoes and going back, Lisa has alternate between them instead of touching the other shoes in her closet.
”On the right is the material room, we were just there. On the left is our reception room. It’s dedicated to receiving high-end customers who want customization. At present, we haven’t received external customers. But now that all the materials for customization have arrived, we should begin receiving guests; one after the other.” Jennie took Lisa into the reception room.
The reception room’s theme was industrial style. There were many designs of shoes hanging on the gray walls. They were designs drawn by Jennie and Rosie while they were in University. There were also samples published by some internationally renowned designers. There was a double sofa in the center of the room and a sand road around the sofa which was about 60 cm wide and covered with sand. There were pebbles embedded on both sides of the sand road and several cacti were planted in the middle.
In the room full of design sense, there was suddenly sand, which was very abrupt. As soon as Lisa came in, she was attracted by the circle of sand.
”Do you know what the sand is for?” Jennie asked deliberately.
Lisa shook her head, her face a little curious.
”Come on, take off your shoes and go for a walk.” Jennie pointed to the sand road.
Following her wife’s words, Lisa took off her shoes and socks on the spot and walked barefoot on the sand. The sand road wasn’t long, and soon she was finished. When she walked one lap and return to her initial spot, Jennie held a pair of slippers and placed them at her feet.
Lisa put on her slippers and looked at the circle of footprints she left behind.
“Did you know that everyone’s walking postures are different, and the footprints you leave on the sand road will truly reflect your walking posture and the strength used by your feet while you walk. Look, the footprint of your left foot is deeper than your right foot, which means that your center of gravity is focused towards your left foot. When you drop your foot, the sole had a slight outer imprint, so the outer side of the sole is usually more worn than the inner side.” Jennie analyzed Lisa’s footprints seriously.
Lisa never knew that there would be so much information from her footprints.
”How was it, am I awesome?” Jennie looked up proudly.
”Em.” Lisa sincerely praised. she always knew that apart from memory and mathematics, she was inferior to Jennie.
Jennie’s analysis just now was based on simple knowledge of human ergonomics, and even if you don’t know human ergonomics, as long as you’re good at observing people with some life experience, you can also analyze it. But Lisa wasn’t the same. In some ways, Lisa’s incompetence was like Jennie’s understanding advanced mathematics. However, Jennie enjoys the feeling of being adored by Lisa and immediately felt that Lisa’s incompetence was very cute.
”Sit down.” Jennie pressed Lisa on the sofa, then ran to the tool cabinet on the side. She took out a flexible ruler, paper, and pen before then return to Lisa and squated down.
”Can I measure your feet and make a pair of shoes for you?” Jennie asked with her head raised.
”I have.” Lisa pointed to the shoes that were besides her that she had taken off earlier, indicating that she already had shoes designed by Jennie.
”It’s different.” Jennie explained, “I’m going to make a pair of customized shoes for you. I will customize this pair from start to finish. It’s not the kind of shoes that are mass produced by the machines in the shoe factory. It will be the only pair in the world.”
”The only pair?” Lisa likes this phrase.
”I’ll measure you.” Jennie held up Lisa’s sole with one hand and began to seriously take measurements. The length, width and even the thickness of the sole were measured, as well as the measurement at every point, these were carefully recorded on a white paper besides her. After measuring the left foot, she worked on the right foot. Although the size of the left and right feet of a pair of shoes were the same, in fact, people’s left and right foot weren’t the same, so when customizing shoes, the left and right feet must be measured separately.
During the measurement process, Lisa sat quietly on the sofa. she lowered her head and gazed gently at Jennie’s hands holding her feet. Jennie’s hands are very soft and warm. While measuring, her fingertips will rub against the soles of her feet, which caused a tingling itch, like a burst of static electricity ran up to the top of her head along the backbone of her spine causing all her muscles to become tense.
Lisa wanted to hide, but she was reluctant. she was greedy for this warmth, as if the whole person was held in Jennie’s palm, tenderly and wholeheartedly loved.
”Relax the instep.” Jennie saw that Lisa’s instep was tense and subconsciously raised her hand and patted her gently. After Lisa relaxed, she continued to measure until the measurements for the right and left feet were measured. She looked up and realized that Lisa’s face had turned red.
”Why are you blushing?”
”Itchy.” Lisa whispered.
”Are you still itchy?” Jennie quickly put down Lisa’s feet.
”Em.” Lisa still felt itchy. Even though Jennie’s hands had left the sole of her feet, the crisp numbness still haunted her heart, lingering, intolerable and reluctant. The ten toes in the slippers were tightly curled.
”Are your feet so sensitive? I was very careful just now.” Jennie muttered a few words. “Then you relax for a while, and I’ll put things back.”
Lisa nodded obediently and didn’t dare to look at Jennie, because as long as she looked, she couldn’t help but look at Jennie’s hands, and when she saw her hands, the numbness of her heart would become heavier.
Before Jennie said to not touch her waist, was this why? No, it shouldn’t be, because I… don’t hate this feeling.
Although itchy, but she didn’t resist.
Author’s Notes:
In junior high school, Jennie was addicted to shoujo manga.
“Ah, the man is so handsome, face kill, face kill, I’m going to have a nosebleed.” Jennie screamed in the study holding the manga.
Youth Lisa, who read a book seriously, looked over nervously and found that the girl was covering her face with a manga.
Youth Lisa was anxious, threw the book in her hand, and walked over and picked up the girl’s face
Maiden Jennie : “Tear Man!”
Youth Lisa: “What about a nosebleed?”