The AI Plastic Surgery
"Winter, what's wrong with you today? Where are the tears? I need complete devastation, not a blank expression!"
I apologized and asked for another take.
The second.
The third.
The fourth...
By the seventh take, I finally broke down and cried.
Not because I'd gotten into character.
I cried because I was terrified.
I cried because there were only fifteen days left in my trial period.
If I messed this up, Winter would take away my membership and I'd be nothing more than Mabel Shaw again—the ordinary girl who'd stood alone in the pouring rain with mascara running down her face.
The moment the tears finally came, the director called, "Cut. That's a wrap."