Miley and her creation

On the road, Lina didn't stop checking the rearview mirror and throwing glances at the two youngsters who, until there, didn't speak a single word to each other. Matteo saw her smirking at him through the mirror and he frowned slightly.

"What?" He asked while crossing his arms, already guessing that she was about to give an annoying comment about how Dana and he looked great together.

Instead, the woman just shrugged and declared, "nothing, I just noticed that lately you looked particularly great, have you started working out?"

When Jamal heard the boy sighing, he took a glance at him and saw him turning his head on the side, Lina wanted to comment more but Jamal quickly stopped her by patting delicately her thigh, "please, don't tease him more than that, he looks already pissed".

"But I wasn't trying to tease him, I was complimenting him" Lina tried to defend herself, she pointed at the boy and asked Jamal, "so you will tell me that you didn't notice that he changed a little bit? Like he has gained a little bit of weight?"

"When you start working out, you normally don't see results immediately the first days or weeks" the man replied with a smile while keeping his eyes on the road.

"Actually... I indeed started working out lately" Matteo confessed with a low tone of voice after a short moment of silence, the reality is that he was not annoyed by Lina's comment, it was actually the opposite, he had just turned his head away so that they would not see his face looking embarrassed.

Lina pushed Jamal slightly on his shoulder as she declared enthusiastically, "See? I told you. I have a keener eye than you so do never doubt me on this kind of thing".

Jamal didn't reply immediately, he raised his sight to the mirror to take a proper look at the boy before he brought back his eyes to the road, "well, that's quite a surprise, I wonder where that decision came from".

When Lina turned her head to look at Matteo, the latter looked away to avoid crossing her sight as he didn't want her to guess his thoughts through his facial expression, however, she had the time to notice that sneak peek the boy had thrown at Jamal. She smiled then returned to sit straight on her seat before she replied, "it seems that I'm not the only person who has a great influence on the kid".

Jamal glanced at her, "what do you mean?"

Lina didn't respond, she stayed silent and just kept smiling and staring at the road in front of her, leaving her man looking confused all along the way until they arrived at their destination.

...

"So that's the tailoring workshop, huh?" Volga closed the door of her car while staring up at the small building before her.

Lina walked closer to the door, "yes. It's a bit far from the center of the city but it was the only place that had all that they needed to start their business".

She made a move of the hand to invite them in and as soon as they entered in they all started to hear the banging noises of the sewing machines as well as the snipping sounds of scissors. Following the noises, they walked into a large room where machines were aligned horizontally and where clothes and pieces of fabric spread and hanging here and there all over the room.

The group of people all had the same reaction, which was to stare interrogatively at Lina, the latter shrugged as she said, "what? You've never come into a tailoring workshop before?"

She walked a little further trying her hardest to not step on the pieces of clothes while shouting the name of the person running that business, Volga tried to follow her but Jamal stopped her and made a sign of the head to tell her to leave it to Lina.

As they were waiting, Natasha and Carla started to compete in looking for the employees of the workshop and they noticed that they were many machines for few workers, they made the remark to Matteo and the boy admitted that there would normally have been lesser but to their great surprise, of himself and Lina, some few people who didn't have any experience in the domain came to postulate.

Almost immediately they heard Lina calling them, they all turned their heads to see her at the opposite side of the room waving her hand at them, telling them to approach, a woman appeared behind her and led the way to another room, Jamal as well as the other people supposed that the woman was the chief tailor of that workshop and the room she was heading might have been her private room.

Lina waited for them all to come so they could enter together in the private room.

Once they were in, the detail that they immediately noticed was the difference between this private room and the room they were a minute ago, it was clean and the clothes as well as the materials were well ordered and arranged in places they were supposed to be.

The chief tailor was standing behind her desk on which was resting a sewing machine big enough to hide the biggest part of her body, only letting be visible her neck up to her head.

She seemed particularly enthusiastic as since they came she didn't stop showing them a big smile but yet without pronouncing a single word, leaving an awkward silence she seemed to be the only one to not perceiving it.

Lina coughed twice to draw her attention, "hum, Miley. Don't you have something you would like to show us?"

At first, Miley gazed at her confused as if she didn't know what was she referring to, but after the insisting look Lina threw at her, she finally realized. She opened wide her eyes and made an 'O' with her mouth before she snapped her two fingers and moved out hurriedly from her desk to walk toward a closet stuck in the wall on a side of the room. She opened the closet and took out a mannequin with a large sheet covering it and since she seemed to struggle, Jamal took a step forward trying to give her some help but she straight up shook her head accompanied with a choppy laugh before affirming that she was fine.

She managed to put the mannequin in front of the group, standing beside it, and still with her big smile stuck on her face she raised her hands horizontally before herself and started mimicking the sound of a drum with the intention to create a sense of suspense before she finally uncovered the mannequin from its sheet to reveal what she qualified to be her masterpiece.

Miley was expecting from them all gasps of surprise while looking at her creation with eyes full of admiration but her expression quickly changed into disappointment when she saw the faces they were making, almost no reaction from them, as if it was exactly what they were expecting, only the young man behind Jamal was looking at it with appreciation Miley was expecting to get, though it was not enough to satisfy her.

"Is that all?" Her smile disappeared and he started to express her frustration, making all of them turn their heads toward her, "these are the faces you make in front of my beautiful artwork? Where are my 'oh my god that's so splendid', 'I've never seen such a great outfit', 'how could you transcribe so well our emotions in some pieces of clothes, you must be a genius', huh?" She said while mimicking other people throwing the pleasing comments she would have liked to hear.

The group of people before her stayed still silent, staring at her but now looking confused.

Jamal glanced at Lina not knowing if he should ask for some help or explanation, but it seemed that the latter was about to fulfill neither of the two, she just shrugged and took a step back as if she wanted to stealthily escape from that situation. Miley grasped their discrete eye contact and though she didn't understand what they were thinking, she suddenly confronted Lina with her own interpretation.

When she frowned and pointed Lina with her finger everyone had the same reaction, they took a step away from Lina, leaving her all alone to face the wrath of the tailor for reasons they had still yet to know.

"You," she said while staring at her, "you're the only one I showed it to, and there is no way they wouldn't be stupefied by my beautiful creation, that means you told them, you spoiled the surprise, right?"

Lina instinctively took a step back, she raised slightly her two hands in front of her as if to tell her to calm down, she curiously took a high-pitched voice as she replied, "me? No. I would never do such things".

"Not true. She told us everything" Matteo, Natasha and Dana said at the same time, they were not willing to let such a chance slip away.

"I knew it!" Miley took another step toward Lina.

The latter turned her head to glare at the group of snitches and without letting out a sound she articulated with her mouth, "you will pay for this". After lipreading what she just said, each of the three people started to make grimaces at her, Lina would have liked to get back at them but she first had to deal with Miley as she started to get worryingly closer.

"Listen, it's true that as I was informing them about the suit some... many details escaped from my mouth. But understand me, your art was so beautiful that it was almost impossible to not talk about it in detail". Lina started to pray in her head, hoping that this would do.

After hearing her, Miley suddenly stopped, there was a short moment of silence raising some suspense as everyone around her was trying to guess what would be her reaction and to their surprise, her expression abruptly changed returning to her usual enthusiastic self as she declared that she completely understood Lina, she walked back toward the mannequin and started to present her product while saying, "just look at this fine design, a classic entire black costume perfectly adapted for sneaking missions but still finely and slightly embroidered by gold lines on the arms, chest, and legs following a specific pattern so we can get a nice and beautiful overall artistic figure, a small detail that yet embellishes the suit so much. As you can see the uniform is equipped with a jacket and a belt containing the same thin but still remarkable decorations of gold color but most importantly, pockets that you may use to stock whatever tools or gadgets you would later need. And who could have imagined that dressed with such a beautiful suit not only would you look excessively great but you are also provided with optimal protection against most shocks? That would be a crime to not talk about it in detail".

As she was staring at the suit, one hand holding her chin and the other arm below her chest holding her elbow, the others approached slowly to get a closer look at the mannequin and even Natasha dared to touch a little bit the clothes before she asked, "won't this be a bit too heavy considering everything you put in it? Because you know, we would need to be pretty mobile".

"Mmm?" She turned the head toward the young woman looking at her with a confused face as if she didn't hear what she had just said, but as Natasha intended to repeat her question Miley interrupted to respond to her, showing that she did remember her inquiry. "Oh yeah, the uniform was made by keeping in mind your physical abilities", she turned toward Jamal and told him, "Lina told me that you're all pretty strong and that the equipment would not bother you that much".

Volga coughed, "well, it's good to note that it is not the case for everyone", she took a glance at Andre before she added, "some of us are just normal humans".

There was a very short moment of silence where everyone was staring at the woman, and in the eyes of some of them, more precisely Lina, Natasha, and Carla, Volga had caught a sense of guilt while for Jamal it was a completely different sentiment. She looked at him, and shrugged, "what? Can you honestly look at me in the eye and tell me that you are a normal human?"

"I am!" He exclaimed, spreading his arms mimicking an offended expression.

Volga puffed, rolled her eyes, and with a slight smile on her face she brushed aside his reply, "so put it on and we will see by ourselves" she finally suggested.

But just after she said Lina rushed to stand in the way between Jamal and the mannequin, facing her back at it, she raised her arms on the two sides and expressed her objection. People looked at her interrogatively wondering what was that she had in mind, and when Natasha asked her what was wrong with her, she replied that she didn't want to see Jamal in his uniform yet.

Natasha shook her head and sighed just at the idea of the silly excuse Lina was about to give, however, she still gave her the occasion to speak.

"I want his first time wearing it be the day he leaves for the mission. Just imagine that surprise of seeing him for the first in such a beautiful uniform, just how sexy he is going to look like, combined with the thrill and the stress of him going to accomplish such a perilous job..." Lina passed her arms around her herself and moaned briefly before she completed, "that's gonna be one hell of a sensation, I'm already excited just imagining it".

"I regret having let you speak", Natasha sighed while lowering her head, looking embarrassed. She took a step forward telling Lina to move out of the way but it seemed that the latter was more than serious about Jamal not wearing it.

Natasha turned her face toward Carla and with one tilt of the head, the latter understood what the young woman had in mind and nodded at her as to tell her that she was in. Lina who intercepted their silent conversation tried to quickly run to protect the uniform but it was not only that she had misunderstood their intentions, she was also way slower than them, she just had the time to turn around before the two young women caught her, each of them holding each of her arms. As they were moving her aside, Lina tried her best to struggle her way out but the two women were just too strong and their grips were solid, and looking at their faces it was like they were doing that effortlessly.

"No! No stop! You don't understand, it's supposed to be a memorable moment! Don't ruin my sweet pleasure!" She kept screaming while she was getting pulled away, she looked at her lover and yelled "Jamal I forbid you to do that! You hear me?" She paused and gasped while throwing glares at Natasha and Carla beside her, "damn, for a duo of virgins these girls are crazy strong".

Natasha tightened her grip making Lina letting out a scream of pain before she loosened up almost immediately.

Everyone there had been silently watching the scene until Volga clapped in her hands to bring back their attention to the main topic. The group all turned their heads toward her and the latter made a gesture of the head telling Jamal to go put the uniform on, the latter nodded, went to take the mannequin, trying his best to ignore Lina's screams, and walked into what seemed to be a cabin where he could change.

It took a few minutes before he came out, his gaze was down checking on the uniform and when he finally raised his eyes on the group of people in front of him they were all staring at him speechless. "Do I look weird?" He asked, a bit confused by such surprised expressions from them.

"Weird?" Volga repeated while scanning him top to toe, and after bringing back her eyes up she then added, "you look like a sort of superhero".

"Don't you think you're exaggerating a little bit?"

All the girls started shaking their heads synchronously. "I swear you look so sexy. I regret not having anything to take pictures of you right now" Lina said while walking a little bit toward him to take a closer look.

"I have!" Miley exclaimed, raising one hand high in the air, all eyes were on her as she was rushing toward her desk, she opened two drawers before she found what she seemed to be looking for, she took out a camera and holding it with her two hands she joined back the group in front of Jamal, just next to Lina and Natasha.

When Miley held the camera against her face Lina leaned toward her as she seemed to have a request to make, "when you develop the pictures take notes that I want one, of the size of a poster to hang it in my room and another small size to frame it and put it on the desk in my office".

"I will ask for the same as her but with one additional small size photo", Natasha came close to make her order as well, "one poster to hang on the door of my room, one for my bedside table, and the last one to carry around with me".

Lina turned toward her friend and smiled at her, "that's a great idea", she then again leaned toward Miley to ask for one more small-size photo, just like Natasha, to carry around in her purse.

"Don't you think you're going overboard for just a uniform?" Jamal sighed, he didn't know what to do with these girls anymore.

"Shut up and take the pose already!" Lina replied almost immediately, with an angry tone and a wave of the hand, to signify that she didn't care about what he thought while keeping her eyes on the camera.

Jamal sighed and decided to give up and let the girls have their fun, so he played the game, looked straight at the objective, however, he was too embarrassed to take any pose or even smile.

Matteo stared at him for a moment and couldn't help express his thoughts out loud, "I'm still surprised how well it suits you as if it was made for you, wasn't this supposed to be your first visit here?"

Jamal looked at him but didn't know what to respond as he didn't know why and thinking more about it he became curious as well.

"Oh? It's because this first model was made specifically for you" Miley said after taking one last picture, as she walked away to go put down the camera she also confessed that it was actually Lina who gave her Jamal's exact measurements.

Everyone slowly turned their heads toward Lina and, except Jamal and Miley, they all started to throw weird stares at her, Lina looked back at them and shrugged, "what?"

"I mean, I could agree that knowing his favorite food or color can look kinda cute... but knowing his exact detailed measurements...?" Matteo paused and made a slight grimace.

"That's creepy" Dana coldly finished the sentence.

Lina took an offended face before she responded with a pinch of angry tone, "I sleep with him! I have him in my bed or his almost every day and I have also served as his personal nurse for quite a time, so of course, I had many occasions to get a closer and a more precise look on his body".

At their faces, Matteo and Dana didn't look truly convinced but they still nodded and stopped insisting as they thought they didn't want to make things weirder.

"Well, that's clarified why not testing the uniform?" Volga double bounced on that small conclusion to suggest moving on to a more interesting point as she knew so well how to do it.

"Testing?" Jamal looked at her while sounding a bit worried, "wait, what do you mean by testing?"

Volga threw two complicit looks at his two sides with a slight tilt of the head and before Jamal could figure out what she was up to, Natasha and Carla appeared in his two sides and each of them grabbed each of his arms, holding him steadily while Volga was getting ready.

Jamal glanced at his two sides, tried to move his arms and free himself vainly as, though he's capable of beating them in a fight when it came to raw physical strength they significantly outmatched him. "Wait, what are you doing?"

"Stay still, we are just trying to know if the uniform works the way it was said it works" Volga replied while stepping back a little before starting taking off her shoes as she thought she did not want to put dirt on the clothing.

While she was taking her stance, Jamal glanced at his lover with a look that was asking her if she intended to just stand there and do nothing, Lina simply shrugged and replied with a supportive smile seeming to tell him to just bear with it, suddenly, with his sharp reflexes, he sensed Volga coming but he just had the time to turn the head and exclaimed, "wait-".

The woman jumped high and landed a strong front kick on Jamal's chest and at the moment of the impact, Natasha and Carla simultaneously let go of him, allowing him to roll down backward on the effect of the hit.

A few seconds later, Jamal then slowly stood up under the eyes of the small group, all gazing at him in silence. Once up, he dusted off his clothes, looked at the spectators before him, and, after spreading his arms at both sides, he smiled and declared, "yeah... the pain was minimal, it just hurt a little but I didn't feel the full hit".

"Yes!" Miley enthusiastically yelled, surprising everyone, she simply couldn't contain her joy seeing her product working, she quickly collected herself and asked, "how is your mobility? Does the weight makes it hard for you to move?"

"Hum, well... ", instead of finishing his sentence, Jamal suddenly ran forth toward Volga, he threw a jab that she successfully blocked but in a fast sequence he squatted down with one leg extended and rotated clockwise, kicking Volga's feet from behind resulting her violently losing her balance and falling on the ground. Jamal stood up and with a satisfied smile on his face, he reached his hand to Volga and helped her stand back up.

"Fine, it's cool, you took your revenge now take that annoyingly satisfied smile off your face," the latter said while rubbing her butt, still feeling the pain of the fall.

Jamal chuckled before he turned again toward Miley to give his short and brief review while still moving his arms and examining the suit, "the uniform is appreciably supple I can move as freely and be as acrobatic as I want in it, but it's true that I could be faster if it was less heavy".

"Noted!" The tailor replied after she finished writing on the small book note she usually carried in one of her pockets, she asked Jamal if he had more complaints but when the latter shook his head, she closed the notebook and put it back in her pocket. She turned to Lina and told her, "I will be adding some new upgrades so you can expect to get a bit different design, hope it would leave up to expectations and offer you a nice surprise".

Lina hugged her and shouted happily that she was the best and Volga slowly walked toward her and leaned towards her to whisper her on her ear a discreet request that she wanted a replica of the same uniform as Jamal was wearing and she added that she only was looking for the design of the costume and that there was no need of supplement protection fabric and stuff, "I can give you the approximate measurements".

"For personal usage?" Lina leaned toward Volga and said with a naughty smile.

Volga replied back with the same complicit smile before she nodded as Lina had guessed right.

Miley then clapped in her hands to catch the attention of everyone and shouted that anyone who wanted their own uniforms should step in the line and wait for their turn as she needed to take their exact measurements.