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speechis really important. It’s my only chance to get onto the student council.
    But I can’t even concentrate on the speech because I can hear Sharon singing really loudly down the hall.
    I politely knock on her bedroom door. When she opens the door, I ask her and Maureen to keep it down. But she snaps at me and tells me that she’s practicing for the school musical auditions. The play! The play that will star Miranda Mullaly! I forgot all about the stupid play. And even though weirdo Mr. Wexler, who runs the thing, mentions it to me almost every day, I still forgot. Where’s my brain?
    I try to find out more about this play thing.
    â€œWhen are the tryouts?” I ask.
    â€œTryouts?” Sharon repeats. “They’re not tryouts. These are auditions.”
    â€œWhen are the auditions?” I ask.
    â€œNext Monday after school. And then there might be callbacks.”
    â€œWhat are callbacks?”
    â€œCallbacks are when you get called back,” she says.
    It’s like pulling teeth, talking to my sister. “And what do you do if you get called back?”
    â€œYou audition again.” Maureen joins in. They both laugh at me and are really enjoying it. I ignore their immaturity and ask the big question.
    â€œHow do you try out, I mean, audition?” I ask.
    â€œDon’t tell me you’re going to
try
out
for the musical?” She laughs.
    â€œI think I will. Mr. Wexler is always asking me to
audition
for it.”
    â€œThat’s only because there are never enough boys.”
    â€œWell, I’m going to anyway.”
    â€œYou’re going to have to sing a song,” Sharon says.
    â€œAny song?”
    Sharon huffs and puffs at me the way Mr. Howe does in homeroom. I think she realizes it’s rude to huff and puff and sigh like that, so she hands me a sheet of paper to make up for it.
    â€œThis is the song you have to sing.”
    I leave the room with the lyrics as my sisters continue to laugh.
    Tonight I learn that girls, when they laugh, like to laugh together.
    I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to sing the song, and I give up on the speech. I join Dad and we watch the rest of the DVD. And even though it’s super hilarious, I’m not in the mood. At least Dad is happy.

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Freewriting
    Miranda Mullaly
    January 11, 2016
    English 8A
    Mr. Minkin
    Suggested Writing Prompt:
If
you could relive any day or moment in the last
year, what would it be? What exactly would you change
? How could that change affect you in the present?
    This is a difficult question because, of course, my mind is mostly on the future. High school, auditions for the spring musical, et cetera.
    Still, the answer is simple. If I could relive any day from the last year, it would be the first day of this present semester. That morning, my mindwas fully occupied with happy thoughts of my boyfriend, Tom Nelson. Oh, how I miss him. We had such a wonderful winter break together. We spent the days ice skating at the rink, sipping hot chocolate, and walking through the woods with the snow falling through the bare branches. It was magical. So I was probably smiling to myself, looking a bit like a fool immersed in my fond memories of Tom, when I thoughtlessly held out my hand and kept Duke from sitting on a tack placed on his chair by Sam Dolan.
    Thinking back on it, I really don’t know why I saved Duke anyway. I suppose it was simply because I’m tired of the childish antics of so many of my classmates. Tom would never do such a petty thing. Am I the only one who realizes that we’ll be in high school in eight short months? Does anyone in my class even understand that you don’t put thumbtacks on each other’s seats in high school?
    The way Duke smiled at me woke me from my daydreams of Tom and brought me back to Penn Valley. Duke absolutely beamed when I saved him. He can be so weird sometimes.
    Because I couldn’t bear to look at him foranother