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other—they decide to name them.
    â€œWe’re going to call our team the Pink Roses,” Antonia says.
    â€œI don’t want Pink Roses,” Nikki objects. “I want Red Roses.”
    â€œRaise your hand if you want Red Roses,” Antonia says. The hands of all her teammates go up. Antonia rolls her eyes and crosses her arms. “Okay, we’re the Red Roses.”
    â€œI want the Purple Lilacs,” Deja says quickly.
    â€œI want yellow lilacs,” Keisha insists.
    â€œHah, hah, hah. There’s no such thing,” Deja says with certainty.
    Nikki wonders if there are yellow lilacs.
    â€œOrange, then.”
    â€œThere’s no orange lilacs, either,” Deja proclaims, and then adds quickly, “All those for Purple Lilacs, raise your hand.”
    Slowly, everyone on the team raises her hand.
    So it is the Purple Lilacs against the Red Roses.
    Rosario has something more to say. “Let’s do four things: wedding and bridesmaid dresses—and no tracing from a book; wedding menu—and it has to be from real recipes, like from real cookbooks; decorations like the tables and that altar thing; and the invitation—on really nice paper, not on notebook paper.” She looks around.
    â€œWhat about the registry?” whines Yolanda.
    â€œNo. We don’t have time for all that,” Rosario says. “How many want to do a registry?” she adds, probably to seem fair.
    Three hands go up: Keisha, ChiChi, and Yolanda.
    â€œNo registry,” Rosario says.
    Then Nikki, ChiChi, Ayanna, and...
Antonia
scoot their chairs down to the end of the rectangular table and put their heads together. Nikki wonders how Deja feels, seeing Nikki putting her head together with Antonia’s. One thing’s for sure: Deja is probably going to try to take over organizing her group.
    Antonia says, “I think we should divide everything up—the jobs and stuff.”
    â€œI want to do the dress. Something better than that stuff we already did before we were competing against each other,” ChiChi says.
    â€œI want to do the decorating,” Antonia says quickly, before anyone else can claim the task. “That’s the flowers and the tables and all that stuff. And party favors,” she adds.
    â€œI don’t know if weddings have party favors,” Nikki says.
    â€œI think this wedding should. People like to take stuff home,” Antonia insists, and no one challenges her.
    â€œMy aunt took the centerpiece home from her friend’s wedding,” ChiChi says.
    Everyone looks at ChiChi with interest.
    â€œI want to do the menu,” Nikki jumps in, before someone else claims it. She’d just overheard Deja stating to her team that she wanted to do the menu. It will be fun for them both to do it.
    â€œThen I guess I’m doing the wedding invitation,” Ayanna says.
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    On the way home, Nikki is lost in thought about the menu. Deja doesn’t have much to say, either. Then Nikki remembers Saturday and how that’s the day she’ll get to go shopping. She already knows that she wants to get a dress in peach or lavender. She just needs to decide which color. She poses this dilemma to Deja.
    â€œI know you’ll probably say I shouldn’t get the lavender one, since that’s your favorite color, but what I want to do is try them both on—that is, if they’re in my size—and see which one looks better on me.” She stops for a breath then asks, “What do you think, Deja?”
    â€œFine,” Deja says.
    It doesn’t sound very fine to Nikki, though. She looks over at Deja. “But what do you think?”
    â€œWhichever one looks the best,” Deja says quietly.
    â€œYeah, that’s what I think,” Nikki agrees. She sneaks a look at Deja again. Deja looks sad, and for a few seconds Nikki feels guilty about her own excitement.
    There’s a moment of silence, then Nikki pipes up