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message, because what would she say: Where are you, Dara? It made no sense to ask that if the person wasn’t there to answer. And Dara didn’t have a cell. Why did she need one, she once joked, when she was always with Zoe anyway?
    Well, maybe she’d try calling Dara’s apartment again later. From home.
    â€œSee you tomorrow, guys,” she called up the stairs, smiling a little at how funny that sounded. For a second she stood at the foot of the stairs, breathing the warm, strangely soothing air of Isaac’s weird apartment. Then she locked the door with her special key and hurried outside, where a blasting truck horn immediately scolded her: Hey, Zoe! You’re back in the real world now, so wake up and pay attention!

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    The walls of Zoe’s apartment were actually shaking.
    That’s how loud the music was: If you looked at the family photos in the entry (Isadora beaming as she took a curtain call, Malcolm hoisting his Math Olympiad trophy, Mom hugging Spencer a few minutes after his birth, Dad and Zoe waving from the Statue of Liberty), you could see them all twitching a little, back and forth.
    Wincing, Zoe walked into the living room, where Isadora and her best friend, Nina, and some blond girl named Palmer were sprawled all over the Bennetts’ ash gray sectional sofa, chanting some deafening hip-hop song to their invisible but adoring fans.
    â€œDo you think you can turn it down a little, Isadora?” Zoe shouted. “You can practically hear it in the elevator.”
    â€œSorry!” Isadora gracefully jumped up to switch off the CD player, but the air was still vibrating. “We were just psyching ourselves up to go audition.”
    â€œYeah, Iz, like you really need psyching up,” teased Nina. “You know you already have the lead.”
    â€œI don’t!”
    â€œOf course you do.”
    â€œOf course I don’t ,” said Isadora, beaming. “Everyone’s trying out, Nina. You never know.”
    â€œAhh, but you see, my dear, I know all,” said Nina. She picked up a sofa pillow and put it on her head. “I am zee swami,” she said in a heavily accented voice. “I can zee into zee fu-ture.”
    â€œNina, you are just too painfully bizarre,” Palmer said. “Shut up and let Isadora pretend to worry.”
    â€œI’m not pretending,” Isadora protested.
    â€œOh, come on, Iz. You totally have the part. Nina’s telepathic.”
    â€œClairvoyant,” Zoe corrected Palmer. She looked at her sister, who was organizing her thick sandy blond hair into a sloppy ponytail. Isadora was gorgeous. She was also an amazing singer; of course she’d get the starring role. “I thought the musical was just for Middle Division.”
    â€œUpper Division too,” said Isadora. “The first co-division production in Hubbard history.”
    Which means it’ll be harder for Dara, Zoe thought. “But weren’t tryouts right after school?”
    â€œFor Middle Div. Upper’s in half an hour.”
    â€œOh,” Zoe said distractedly. “Well, I need to make a phone call now, so if you guys could please….”
    â€œWe’ll keep it down, dah-ling. Never fear.”
    Zoe grabbed the hallway phone and locked herself in the bedroom she shared with Isadora. Then she called Dara’s number again, and this time Dara picked up.
    â€œGasp!” Dara cried. “I’m so sorry, Zoe! I totally forgot you were waiting after school! Do you forgive me?”
    Zoe sat down on her bottom bunk. “Don’t be silly. Of course I do.”
    In the background Zoe could hear a loud voice. “Is that Zoe on the phone? Tell her you were awesome.”
    Dara giggled. “Leg says I was awesome.”
    â€œLeg?” Zoe repeated. “She’s at your house right now?”
    â€œYeah, she walked me home from auditions. I’m so ecstatic, Zoe. I mean, I was just incredibly