Invitations and Reincarnations

I was bursting with happiness as I rushed home from school.
I had gotten the role in Wicked that I wanted, Nessa. I did a few epic fails of cartwheels and jogged home. I changed out of my school clothes quickly and telephoned Erin.

Kirsten answered the phone.
"Hello?" She answered. I heard commotion and Beatles music in the background.
"Hi Kirsten, its Grace!" I answered happily. It felt good to hear Kirsten's sweet voice again.
"Hi, Gracie! How are you?" I could hear her smiling. I heard running and yelling in the background.
"I'm great, thanks for asking! Is Erin around?" I asked.
"Yes, she is." Kirsten answered. "Hang on a second." I heard her call Erin's name and I heard the loud clomps of Erin's feet run across the floor.

"Heyla, Grace!" Erin answered.
"Hi, Erin! Guess what?" I said eagerly.
"THE BEATLES ARE COMING TO TOWN?!" I could hear the false excitement in her voice.
"No... but I got the role of Nessa in my school's play, Wicked!"
"EPIC!" Erin bellowed into the phone. "You'll do great!" I heard Ruthie yelling at a hyper Kit in the background.
"I'm so happy! Can you tell Sonny that Bethie got the part of Galinda?" I asked.
"Sure. Hold on." Erin said. "SONNY!!!!!!" Erin bellowed into the distance. I heard Sonali come down the stairs. Erin told her and she cheered.
"Hey, another thing. Ruthie says to check your mail." Erin said after a few minutes.
"What?" I was puzzled.
"Just do it!" And with that, Erin hung up.

I hung up the phone and slid on my shoes. I rushed outside and pulled the mail out of our box. In it were the fashion magazines Kristy read and eleven letters, one for each of us.

At dinner, I passed out the letters to everyone. Julie was the first one to open hers. As soon as she opened it up, she screamed a shrill scream. Everyone opened theirs up and there was an eruption of cheers.

We had all gotten invitations to their Awards Show! With plane tickets to Canada!

"We're going back?!" Kristy asked. "But we were just there!"
"Nonsense." Samantha said. "We're only staying for 2 days the next time we visit, which is at the end of May."
"It says to call Kirsten so that she can give us the day to come." Bailey read from the bottom of her invitation.
"Yay!" Kristy cheered. "We can buy dresses for the show now!" She clapped her hands.
"I guess we have to. The paper says we have to wear dresses." Felicity said.
Everyone cheered louder. Bailey groaned.
"We've had a little too much excitement for today. Finish you supper so that we can get out shopping." Samantha instructed.
Everyone ate as fast as they could. We all collected our coats and purses and jackets to get shopping. Then we hit the mall.

When we arrived at the mall, Samantha made everybody pick a buddy. We had to stay with our buddies at all times, and we had to report to the food court at 7:00 so that we could leave. I was buddied up with Lanie. We raced to a fancy dress shop and dug around the racks. We picked about seventeen billion dresses to try on. TiK ToK by Ke$ha played in the background and we tried them on, asked the other their opinion, then changed into another one. I really, really liked Lanie in a pale green one with sparkles, and so she picked that one. I couldn't find one. I was disappointed. I decided to use one from home, but I doubted I'd be able to find one that looked pretty on me. I was a bit sad. Lanie jubiliantly skipped to the cash register and payed. I stood to the side, upset. Lanie skipped to the food court. Almost all of our sisters were there, holding bags containing beautiful dresses. Kristy came in with her buddy, Chrissa. Poor Chrissa was carrying everything she and Kristy bought, the dresses, the shoes, the accessories, everything. I felt a lurch of jealousy as we loaded into the car and drove home. I went right upstairs and dug through the closet, trying to find the perfect dress to wear.

Lanie walked in. "Trying to find a dress?" she asked, jokingly.
"Yes." I grumbled.
Lanie strolled over to the closet and pulled out a pink dress, as if she had put it there on purpose. It was perfect. It was Kristy's old pink dress, which she still loved, but I loved it. I took it from Lanie's hands. I never acknowledged that it was even there. It was as if I had been to the closet and never noticed it was there because I saw it everyday. I tried it on. It looked wonderful.
Me+pink=GORGEOUS.
I picked some shoes to match and put it in the box with the rest of the dresses.

We watched Glee with Bethie and learned some dance moves with Kristy.

~Gracie in the Sky with Dresses and Shoes~