Trial Of The Senses

"It's snowing again."

"This might be the last snow in this winter."

Ashley was sitting beside the stove to warm herself up, while Dylan was eating snacks. The workers around them were chatting about the snow.

"Don't talk about it anymore. We should take photos of the snow scene in time. Everybody, move!" The director came over with the script and ordered in a rough voice, "move the furnace to the door. Don't move out? Are you an idiot! Open the door. You two sit on both sides of the furnace. Camera group, hurry to adjust the cameral..."

The director shot the snow view for two hours repeatedly with high expectation and demanded to repeat a scene for several times by using different shooting techniques. At the end of the play, everyone was as cold as ice, not to mention acting like this intermittently without a rest.

"Do you have hot soup this noon? If not, I'm going to be freezing." A 15-year-old girl in the same group sat with her head on Ashley's shoulder. She was a maid of Ashley in the TV series.

"Yes, it is." Ashley comforted her.

"Come on, guys. Once this scene is over, we can have a meal. Hold on." The director directed the trembling crowd.

The little girl whined in a low voice, "why do we need to take another picture?"

When everyone was about to begin shooting, a man came over from outside and said something to the director in his ear. Then the director left in a hurry, leaving others confused. Under this circumstance, no one dared to move but to rest on the spot for about five or six minutes. Then the director and several other main leaders came in with a young woman.

She looked very charming, or perhaps it was because she was well dressed, with her wavy hair and long legs in a knitted dress in a snowing day.

"Thank you all for your hard work today. The morning shooting is over. Miss Adela has brought us a big meal. Please have a good rest and enjoy yourself." The director said happily.

"Great meal!" The maid standing beside Ashley was very excited.

Suddenly, her companions exclaimed cheerfully, "Miss Adela, you are a lucky star!"

"Finally we can eat. I'm starving!"

"Miss Adela, you are so kind!"

Although no one knew who Miss Adela was, she was treated so politely by the director. Everyone assumed that she must be from a prominent family and all of them were saying something flattering to her. Miss Adela was a charming girl. Now that everyone flattered her, her smile was even more enchanting.

In the movie, Dylan and Ashley were the main character. They would have a relatively independent room for dinner, the room of Jane. The room was equipped with central heating and a stove. Both of them were freezing outside for two hours. When they broke into the room, they sneezed one after another.

Jamie and Helen came in with lunch boxes for two persons in their hands, respectively. After placing it on the table, Helen couldn't wait to unpack it

covered with thick snow on the ground and on the roof.

As soon as the scene was finished, Jamie, who was waiting outside the filming area, rushed over to her and surrounded her with a down jacket. He said anxiously, "Ashley, a call from your home says that something bad has happened to your father and you need to go back!"

"What!" The whip in her hand fell to the ground at once. Something happened to Samuel? She even didn't have the time to put on her down jacket. She ran out of the room in a hurry.

"Ashley!" Jamie chased after her immediately.

Dylan said something to Helen, and ran after Ashely hurriedly without changing his costume.

Other people in the crew were dumbfounded when they saw the scene. So Helen stayed and asked for leave from the director. "Director, as you see, something serious happened in Ashley's home. I'll ask for a leave for her and Dylan."

Regaining his composure, the director nodded repeatedly. "It's okay. It's understandable to ask for leave when something serious has happened at home."

It would take at least two hours to drive from the television city to the city. And now, the road was covered with snow, which made it even slower. While Dylan was driving the car, Ashley was sitting behind. She was so anxious that she wished to grow a pair of wings flying back right away. "It's all my fault. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have come out to work. He is heavily ill. How can I go out to work?"

"Don't blame yourself, Ashley." Feeling guilty, Jamie turned around from the passenger's seat and said, "it's not your fault. I'm the one to blame. If I hadn't advised you, you wouldn't have come back early to film."

"You two don't have to blame yourself. Betty said that uncle Samuel's is stable now. He will wait for us."

Although she said so, Ashley was still worried.

They finally arrived at the house of Fang family around six o'clock, under the great pressure and anxiety along the way.