December
In the weeks
following the marriage of Charlie and Toddy where Florist Julie Lewis and photographer
Alex Swaine met and fell in love while they danced the night away.
Technically it
was not the first time they’d met, that is to say they were not strangers,
because of their professions they were often at the same events, and of course
they both lived in the Village, but they had never spoken, until that night at
the Wedding reception.
The whirlwind
romance between Alex Swaine and Julie Lewis continued unabated in the run up to
New Years Eve, and on that night, they were guests at the New Years Eve Fancy
Dress Party at the Barnabus Manor Hotel, courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Phelps, along
with other Villagers and parishioners who helped to make their Wedding Day so
special, though Charlie and Toddy weren’t in attendance.
Although they
only lived an Uber away Alex decided to book them a room for the night, although
primarily it was for somewhere for them to get into their costumes, they hadn’t
at that point progressed to a physical relationship.
It was a little
short notice for Fancy Dress if you were beyond average dimensions, but it was
easier for Julie than it was for Alex.
Julie looked
perfect in a flapper dress because she had the hair for the period, and a
lovely figure to go with it.
Because of his
height Alex was limited to what costumes he could choose from at the best of
times, but for a big holiday like New Years Eve it was even more difficult, so
he was dressed as a wizard in a cloak bejeweled with moons, stars and
astrological symbols, he looked very striking, but she looked gorgeous in her
flapper dress and she turned every head in the place, but he was proud that she
was on his arm and not someone else’s.
They danced all
night, just like they did at the Wedding two weeks earlier, and at midnight
they cheered along with the other guests as the year turned and then the Wizard
and the Flapper stood on the dance floor and kissed.
They were the
last to leave the dance floor and the last of the happy revelers to leave the
ballroom from where they made their way up to their room where they spent the
night talking, still wearing their Fancy Dress Costumes, laying on the bed with a quilted throw across them.
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