The Woman In the Church by Cathryn Grant

Author:Cathryn Grant [Grant, Cathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943142675
Published: 2021-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Stephanie and I were in a cab on the way home from a client’s first photography session. We’d met with the client at her art studio in Park Slope in Brooklyn. Stephanie was smug with what a marvelous job she’d done, getting Mandy Miller to relax, to stop paying attention to the camera, to look natural. I was not looking forward to Stephanie’s fit when I told her she had a long way to go.

At this point, we were both taking photographs, which was part of the reason Mandy had been overly self-conscious. I could imagine how it would be, having two rather large camera lenses following you around the room, the click of the shutter, the flash blinking at your peripheral vision. But until Stephanie was up to speed, it had to be that way. Otherwise, we’d have to take up another hour or more of Mandy’s time while I re-shot the photos where Stephanie had missed the mark. That would make her even stiffer in front of the camera, repeating the stories she’d already told us.

“We have some great shots here.” Stephanie patted her camera bag.

“You didn’t take enough close-ups,” I said.

“Well, didn’t you take any?”

“That’s not the point. You’re supposed to be photographing our clients as if I’m not there.”

“And when you quit following me around, I will.”

“Trystan wants it this way.”

“Because you whined to him about me.” She edged farther away from me, pressing herself against the door of the cab.

I wasn’t going to start arguing with her. No matter what I said, she would put the blame on someone else. It was a waste of breath and brain cells to try to argue with her about things that weren’t directly related to my impossible task of mentoring her. “You need to follow the list he gave you.”

“I did.”

“You didn’t. And you’ll see that when we go through the shots and upload them to the database.”

“Well, I thought it went great, and I don’t see why you’re so negative. Trystan doesn’t like negativity. And negativity, in general, is very unattractive. It’s not all about how you look on the outside, you know. Character matters.”

Again, the argument wasn’t worth it. She wore me out. I’d met plenty of neurotic people in my life, but no one like her. Usually, I like arguing with people, I like countering their incorrect statements, I like getting the verbal upper hand. But with Stephanie, she wandered along her own convoluted path of logic, and even when I pointed out where she was wrong, she somehow managed to believe that wasn’t the case. She could stare right at reality and insist it wasn’t real.

I settled back and closed my eyes for a moment. It was better to wait until we were sitting in front of the computer, reviewing the photos she’d taken. I knew what they would look like, but when they were staring her in the face, and there were no closeups, it would be more difficult for her to argue…except for that staring-at-reality-and-saying-it-wasn’t-there thing she had going.

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