9. Scene Stealer
The whispers are worse at rehearsal, where everyone who isn’t Sophie (as opposed to ninety-five percent of everyone who isn’t Sophie) is used to checking their attractiveness rankings against the rest of the room on a daily basis.
When Mrs. Cornwall arrives, she scans the crowd to give Aaron and me her dreaded look, but when it finds me, it shifts into her appraising poker face.
It’s a subtle change, the same one that crosses her face whenever someone who claims to be sick actually faints or throws up in front of her eyes and she’s forced to rethink that look but can’t allow us to see her flip-flop.
This look says it would have been nice if I’d picked the off season to barricade myself inside for four days to recover from dramatic aesthetic corrections, but if it had t
