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peanut butter and jelly sandwich and slice up an apple before I jump in the shower. Lily arrives right on time.
    â€œLily, which Jedi is your favorite?” Hayden asks.
    â€œHayden. Please stop,” I tell him. “Not everyone wants to talk space stuff, okay?”
    â€œI like the short green guy,” Lily says. She pretends to be thinking. “What is his name?”
    â€œYoda!” Hayden yells.
    â€œYou ready to go?” I ask her. I look out the front window. “Is it very cold?”
    â€œYeah, it is.”
    â€œOkay, let me get my heavy coat.”
    â€œHey, Lily, did you know Sophie’s going to be an actress someday?” I hear Hayden saying. “Maybe someone will see her on TV and put her in a movie.Maybe it’ll be a movie with spaceships!”
    I walk back out and Lily looks very confused. Yes, my annoying brother will do that to a person. “I’ll explain on the way.”
    Mom comes and says hi to Lily. “We’re going to get a cupcake,” I tell her.
    â€œOkay, have fun, girls. Call if you decide you want a ride home.”
    We step outside and it really feels like winter, with the chilly air and the trees almost bare. I zip up my coat.
    â€œSophie, what did he mean, ’see you on TV’?”
    We walk down the front pathway to the sidewalk. I take a deep breath and tell her all about my new agent and the audition.
    â€œThat is so exciting!” she says.
    â€œI guess”.
    She laughs. “You guess? Come on. This could change your whole life!”
    â€œIf I tell you the audition is with Beatrice’s Brownies, does that change how you feel about it?”
    She stops walking, grabs my arm. “No way.”
    â€œYes. Way.”
    Her face looks almost as pained as my insides have felt these past few days. We continue walking. “What are you going to do?”
    â€œI think I’m going to call my agent on Monday and cancel. I tried to tell Isabel about it last week, but I couldn’t do it.”
    We turn the corner and a blast of cold air comes at us. We walk faster. “What do your parents think?”
    â€œIt’s crazy. They both think I should do it. It’s a great opportunity, Isabel would understand, blah, blah, blah. But what if my commercial was the one to bring their cupcake business down? I would have to live with that for the rest of my life. And maybe without Isabel, which would be even worse.”
    She looks at me as she holds her coat collar up around her face, trying to keep the cold air away. “But it wouldn’t be
your
commercial. You’d be
in
the commercial, but it’s Beatrice’s commercial. And besides, you might not even get the part. If I were you, I’d go, and think of it as practice for the next audition. I mean, no offense, but I bet not many people get the job from the first audition anyway. It’s really competitive!”
    â€œSo you’d go to the audition and not tell Isabel who it’s with? Just keep it to yourself?”
    She shrugs. “Yeah. I mean, a practice audition is not a bad thing. It’s not going to hurt anyone.”
    Hearing her say this fills me with relief. “The only thing is that Isabel knows about the audition. She was at my house when I got the call. I made up excuses as long as I could, but finally on Friday, she said I had to tell her about it. So I lied. I told her it was an audition for bran cereal.” I hit my head with my hand. “I can’t believe I said that. I wish I could have just told her.”
    Lily doesn’t say anything else. We just walk, our hands tucked into our coat pockets, and our faces buried in our coats as much as possible.
    When we reach the cupcake shop, Lily turns to me before opening the door. “Do the audition and then tell her. My mom always says, one thing at a time. That’s what you need to do. Right now, focus on the audition and get that over with. When