Friday morning, another email arrives.
FROM: [email protected] SUBJECT: Research Project - Session 2
Miss Lane,
Our second session is scheduled for Monday, 3 PM. Come prepared to discuss the transition period between your "before" and "after" personas. I want to analyze the psychological shift that accompanied the aesthetic change.
Also bring any offline journal entries or private notes from that period, if you're comfortable sharing them.
Best, EP
I read it twice.
Private notes. Journal entries.
He wants to see behind the performance. Into the parts I didn't post.
My stomach twists.
Because those entries are raw. Angry. Full of things I haven't said out loud to anyone. Full of the version of me that scared me, that I've been working to erase from the narrative.
But if I don't share them, the research is incomplete. Surface-level.
And I didn't agree to this just to stay on the surface.
