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Who: Glinda and Alice
When: Recently, Circa July 20ish
Where: Glinda’s place
What: Business Meeting
Rating/Warning: Low/None
Status: Complete!



Glinda was looking forward to meeting Alice, ever since Elphie had told her about the young woman she’d been dying to see the website designs. She also had a gift for Alice too since they would only be paying her an intern salary which wasn’t much in Glinda’s opinion, though Elphie insisted it was fine for a soon to be college student.

She was sitting behind the desk in her living room, her bright pink laptop open in front of her. She’d invited Alice to her home instead of the office, it felt much less stuffy and Glinda had conducted a few interviews in the office this week - Alice she had thought wouldn’t mind not being there.

Alice had her laptop in her bag, and was looking forward to showing Glinda everything. She was honestly a little starstruck about working with the woman, as she had so much awe and respect for those who actually worked in the fashion industry. She pulled up, parked, and then knocked on the front door, trying not to feel nervous. The work she’d done so far was good, she was proud. She just hoped that Glinda thought so, too.

Bouncing over to the door Glinda opened it and smiled brightly, “Alice, hello” she said gesturing for the young woman to enter, “Come in, come in. I’m so excited to see your work” She was perfectly put together, as Glinda always was, and her home was very beautiful.

“Hi!” Alice said. She was excited and nervous, and her voice was a little higher than normal. She beamed, though, as she came into the home. “Thank you! I’m excited to show you! You have a lovely home,” she added, looking around. Glinda was just... perfect. Alice was inspired and in awe. She wanted to be as amazing as Glinda some day. “Where shall I set up my laptop?”

"Oh thank you, that's very sweet of you to say" Glinda said finding Alice to be simply adorable. She was a little bundle of cute and bouncy. "Oh anywhere you like, the desk is probably easiest" she said moving to slide her own hot pink laptop out of the way.

Cute and bouncy, and yet knowledgeable and intellectual. She was learned in her field(s), and had a good head on her shoulders. For the most part. When she wasn’t being an average teenager. She nodded, moved to the desk, and opened her laptop once the path was cleared. She let Glinda sit in the chair. The screen popped straight to the website she’d designed--keeping pink, bubbles and sparkles in mind. Of course, in the most fashionable way possible.

Glinda clapped when she saw it, “Oh Alice, that’s amazing. It’s absolutely perfect” she smiled, “Even Elphie will love it and she’s the only person I’ve ever met who hates pink” she winked. “But this is wonderful. Fun yet sophisticated too”

“You like it? I went with silvers and shiny... pinks...” Alice nearly laughed. “She was the one who suggested I use pink. And bubbles. See how I incorporated them here? And I’ve got space here for all the links to the designers’ pages, blogs, that sort of thing. And I set us up with a Twitter account, it’ll go here on the side. I figure I can tweet once a day, and figure out who else is tweeting about fashion, do some cross promotion... With your approval, of course.”

"Really? That's actually quite sweet of her" Glinda smiled, "Its all perfect, honestly. I love it all. Those ideas sound wonderful. We can give you the contact details of all the designers we have onboard so far so you can contact them, unless Elphie has already done that?" she checked. "I think the tweeting is a great idea and cross promotion is always a good thing right?"

“Oh, I don’t have them yet, so that’ll be good. I’ll make sure to keep all of the information up to date.” Alice nodded, beaming. “Almost always. I’ll make sure that whoever we’re cross promoting with is up to your standard.” She added. “We want to make sure that we’re only promoting the highest fashion, so that people have the right idea about what the project is going to be.”

“I’ll get those to you straight away” Glinda promised, “And I completely trust your judgement. We’re all about high affordable fashion so anything reputable which comes under that banner will be fine but you already know that”

“That’s exactly what I thought. I’ll just make sure to check in with you on the daily so you can keep an eye on everything I’m doing.” Alice said, giving a nod. “That’s really all I had to show you today. I’m sure I’ll have more. Doing the Social Networking thing now the website has approval. Twitter, Facebook, that sort of thing.”

"That would be brilliant, either Elphie or myself will check and give you the nod each day" Glinda replied, "Oh I have something for you" she said, jumping up to fetch the box and handing it to her. "I hope its okay, they told me it was all the latest" Glinda had brought her a laptop, purple in color, with lots of graphics programmes and everything else to make it the highest spec.

Alice stood as well, to half-way follow Glinda to wherever the present was... and then her jaw dropped. She blinked. “No. Really. No way.” She reached forward for the computer and clicked it on, then gaped again when she saw all the programs on there. “This is too much. I mean... thank you.” She wasn’t about to refuse such an amazing present--even if she felt it was far too generous.

Glinda clapped delightedly as she saw how Alice liked the gift, “Oh I’m so glad you like it” she said happily, “They said it should be all you need to create high spec sites and graphics but if there is anything else you would like please do let me know” she added. Glinda didn’t think it was too generous at all. After all Alice was doing a great job for them and Glinda felt that needed rewarding.

“It’s... It’s perfect,” Alice breathed, clicking through. It was, too. It was the world’s most perfect gift. Glinda had said ‘gift’ right? It wasn’t like, coming out of her paycheck? Something she and Elphaba had worked out together. “Thank you,” she repeated. “But this is... I’m going to be up all night playing with it"

Glinda had definitely said gift. "Don't stay up too late I'm sure your parents wouldn't be happy with me if you did that" she grinned.

Alice laughed. “I’ll do my best, but I’m not making any promises.”

“That’s all I can ask” Glinda laughed too.