She Said Yes to Every Question
Prague, May 2022. The girl who walked into my casting that afternoon looked like she had come to interview me. Pink crop top, pink shorts, white sneakers, and a pair of black glasses that made her look like the most serious person in the building. Her name was Rika Fane. Petite, blonde, eighteen, a verified adult with a passport to prove it, and she had never filmed anything like this before.
I sat down next to her on the white couch with my phone in my hand. This time it is all POV: you see exactly what I saw, from my side of the camera, from the first question to the last drop.
I started with the easy ones. Where are you from? What do you study? Do your friends know where you are this afternoon? She answered every single one politely, knees pressed together, hands folded in her lap, a little smile she kept trying to hide. She laughed at the wrong moments. She pushed her glasses up her nose every time she got nervous, which was rough
