“Wait, my cousin?”

Even though the callback was at ten o’clock, Genevieve, Rhode, and Noah were in the casting waiting room at nine o’clock, and she looked nervously at the door and then back at Noah.

Reaching for her hand, Noah took it in his and squeezed it, saying, “You are going to kill it.”

The dark circle under his eyes made her smile, knowing that he stayed up all night, practicing with her, and she fell asleep before he did.

With a smile, she tiptoed toward his lips and kissed him before pulling back and whispering, “For good luck.”

When he let go of her hand, Genevieve took one last look at the two, and then she headed into the room, leaving the two outside.

At nine fifty o’clock, Rhodes and Noah were seated in the hall when a lady wearing black pants with a white blouse approached the room, and when she opened the door, she popped her head into the waiting room and said, “All actresses and actors here for the callback, please follow me in the theater.”

Those words made Genevieve’s heart s