I HELPED MY MOTHER - EARLY ACCESS!

This is a crazy story and I still can´t believe that this actually happened to me. My mum owns a fashion store and she is a real pro. She has studied fashion since she was a young girl and she was the most talented fashionist in our city. Plenty of customers come to her shop every single day and she just loved her job. She loved when customers were happy and beautiful. Of course, most of the customers were women. My mum offered plenty of services including dressing up, makeup and so much stuff. She was even selling plenty of clothes in her store and a customer could choose a dress right there.

I was the only child and I lived just with my mother. My father died years ago… he had a cancer and he couldn´t be healed. I still pray for him every single day and I miss him so much. Since then, I really tried to be there for my mum because I knew she needed me. I was her only support in tough times. I was even helping her a lot in her store. I know it could sound a bit weird that a boy would help in a fashion store for women but I didn´t care that some other boys were laughing at me because of it. For me… to help my mum was the priority and I didn´t care what others were thinking about it.

Well… but one day… I had to help my mum even more… and I was really nervous about it. My mum got sick and she had a fever. It was already evening and she really wasn´t feeling okay. I made her tea and I asked her if she needs anything.

“You are so sweet, Jake! Thank you for being such a nice son!” she told me when I brought her the tea.

“Mom… it is a matter of course that I will take care of you when you are feeling sick! I am here for you and I will always be!” I answered and it just made me happy that I could help my mum.

“Jake… listen… could you please open the store tomorrow? Don´t go to school. I need you to be in the store because a woman and her daughter will come for a prom dress and I need you to be there for them and help them choose. Would you do it for me, son?” my mum asked.

“Of course, mom! Don´t worry about anything. I will show them everything and give them good advice! You have my word!” I said. And it was actually good. I don´t have to go to school and I could be the entire day in the store. It is far better to be in the store than at school. I quite enjoy being the store manager and helping customers to choose the right outfit. And the most important thing was that I will help my mum a lot.

“Thank you so much, Jake! I love you! And I am so glad that I have such a good son!” she whispered. Then she fell asleep and I walked away. She needed to rest and I need to prepare for tomorrow. It will be quite fun to choose a pretty prom dress for the customer. I have always loved when people wanted to buy a pretty long and shiny dress.

The next day I woke really early because I want to have the store prepared in the best way possible. I cleaned it up and I prepared the prom dress collection for the coming customers. And my mum was right. Just a few minutes after I opened the store, a woman came in. At first, I thought that it wasn´t the woman with the prom dress… But I was wrong.

“Good morning… Am I in the fashion store?” the woman asked and she was obviously confused when she saw me and not my mum.

“Good morning! Yes, you are! How can I help you?” I asked her. She was still a bit confused and she was staring at me.

“I am just a bit surprised that I see a young man here and not the woman I met here a few days ago!” she said.

“Well… it was my mum who you met here a few days ago. But she got really sick yesterday evening and she couldn´t make it today. But I am here for you as well, my lady!” I said and I tried to be as polite as possible.

“Oh… I see! I just didn´t expect a man to be running a fashion store! But why not! Anyway… I was supposed to come here with my daughter because we were meant to choose a prom dress for her. But… she got sick yesterday as well and she just couldn´t come with me today!” the lady said.

“Of course, I know! My mum told me about you! Don´t worry! We have plenty of prom dresses in here and you can choose from all of them!” I told her and I led her to the section with prom dresses. She was looking at them for several minutes and I could see that she would be a demanding customer. But it was okay. I was prepared for this. But I wasn´t prepared for what came in a few minutes. The lady told me that she just can´t imagine how the dress will look on her daughter. And then… she said that I have a very similar body to her daughter and that she would like to see some dresses on me. I was shocked at first and I couldn´t believe that she really said it. But she was absolutely serious and I just must do everything for our customers. So I did it… I went to the fitting room and I put on the prom dress. It was such a weird feeling to wear a prom dress. Then I showed myself to the customer and I had to do it with at very least five dresses. But in the end, the customer was really happy and she chose a red long dress. And she made a good choice. I felt in the red dress the most comfy as well.

It was a long day in the office and when I came home in the evening, I told everything my mum. She was feeling a lot better and she was giggling when I told her that I had to wear a prom dress in front of the customer.

“Well… so you have been my daughter for a while!” my mum giggled.

“Yeah… it was so weird… but the customer was happy!” I said.

“We could try it sometimes at home, what do you think?”

“Ehm… I don´t know!” I laughed.

“Well… Jake… Thank you so much again, for everything!” my mum said and I could see that she was really happy. And I was happy as well. This was one of the craziest days I have ever been through. But in the end… I was so glad that I could help my mum and I even tried a dress on. And who could say this?