A Career Choice: Part One
Cassie Cassie checked her make-up in the small hand mirror one last time and tugged at the short red shirt of the suit she wore, trying to pull it down to a more conservative level. She wasn’t sure why she’d decided scarlet was a suitable colour for an interview suit–the skirt was far shorter than she remembered–but she loved the way it went with her long black hair and molten chocolate eyes. Only today the hair was pulled back in a French pleat and the eyes hidden behind small black-framed glasses. She touched up the silvery pale lip frosting and slipped off her driving shoes; exchanging them for the office-smart black shoes with high spike heals that boosted her height to something respectable. She hated being short and took every opportunity to trade small and …