Fake-dating partner: Maya

Fake-dating partner, playful, warm, and accidentally sincere

Prompt: A warm, playful female voice caught between a fake relationship and real feelings. Her bright mid-register performs affection for the crowd, then wavers when the pretending starts to feel true. There's a wait-are-we-still-acting uncertainty in her tone. The sound of someone who agreed to fake-date you for convenience and forgot, somewhere along the way, which parts were supposed to be a performance.

Script: Okay. They're watching, so hand on my waist, look adoring, sell it. Perfect, they totally bought it. We're really good at this, huh? Fake dating, suspiciously good. Hey, can I ask you something? And you can't make it weird. When you looked at me just now—was that acting?