Yes, yes she does

Perhaps Rojas was unsettled by the jungle of her younger days, perhaps she felt something in the wind or perhaps it was the stunned look on William’s face that made Rojas look down. A gasp could be heard by Kara’s super-hearing, Andrea’s arms moving to cross her bosom and pushing her cleavage up in the attempt, her left knee raised across the other leg to try to shield her bottom half.

Rojas was usually a calm and collected figure but red raced to her cheeks as she stared out at the crowd, Lena, her big usually angry boss, friends from business and university, rivals. Initially they kept cheering but the device picked up her embarrassment she was feeling, and it turned to laughter, fake photo’s being taken of her underwear clad body.

Rojas knew she should dismiss this as fake and ride it out but the feeling of being so wrongly clothed among her peers, of everyone seeing her body behind the power she portrayed via her dress, the feeling of vulnerability, she could not shake that off. She also knew William and Kara were real, two people she didn’t want her seeing her like this for very different reasons, and that if this happened in the test, this could happen in the presentation.

Kara had moved towards William in the chaos and William tried to make himself heard, tearing his eyes away from the pale flesh and trying to reassure with his tone. “Remember this is just a practise run, the fake crowd must have overloaded the system but we need to find whatever flaws there are lying elsewhere in the program now.”

Andrea knew it made sense but the feeling of her shoe rubbing against her bare knee was doing nothing for her composure or that the smirking Lena was not the real Lena. Kara then showed support, not grovelling in the humiliation of her boss but trying to be supportive “You can do it Miss Rojas, your so close to showing everyone this wonder you have accomplished. Be strong like you always are, like you were with me on taking over Catco, show them you can accomplish anything.”

Rojas closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths and trying to compose her mind, trying to shut out catcalls and wolf whistles from the AR, trying to shut out the mental images, grasping to remember this wasn’t real and she, Andrea Rojas, had got through tough times before and the prize before her would elevate her in the eyes of the world.