Chapter 55: Suitors and Dressmakers (C)

I walked briskly, hand in hand with Cecilia into her house, we both stopped dead in our tracks when we saw the changes, it looked we walked into a very different home.

Cecilia left my side and ran around the house, gasping with each new room she entered. Being the guest I was, I made myself comfortable of the brand new sofa, admiring the miraculous transformation of Christopher's house.

"Do you like it?" My heart jolted when I heard his voice. Why did it? He just came out of his room with a chair and a small basket containing scissors and a few other items I couldn't very well see.

"It is lovely, very beautiful and most of all, it's neat." I looked him up, he was wearing light sleeping garments, already looking different even before losing the bush on his face... it was clean.

"The chair is for me to sit and the basket is for you." He said as he put down the chair in the middle of his living room. "Cecilia?!" He called but didn't get any response.

"Wait, you mean you want me to cut yo