Characters:
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Role
– Starring
Sophie White – Nicole
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Morgan Cydney – Sydney
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Justin Keller – Justin
(Picture coming soon….)
Emma
Cyrus – Jillian
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Nicole Rogers – Nicohle
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Skylar Jonas – Brooke
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Mitchell Gomez – Brendan
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sophie
white
Part
1
The Beginning of the Same
Chapter One
"I
just don't know," Sophie said, checking her Myspace while she was
on the phone with her best friend.
"Sophie, come on," Morgan
said, "you've wanted this you're whole life! And I'm doing it
also, so it's not like you're going to be the only one. Plus
Sophie, you're the best singer I know. You have to do this, I won't
let you not do it!" Sophie giggled a little, but still wasn't
very happy. "That's easy for you to say, Miss Popular! You're
the only friend I have! Why? Because, I'm too shy. I've always
been too shy for anything Morgan, I haven't ever gotten anything.
I'm not Miss Head Cheerleader like you are, I'm not Miss
Every-Guy-Likes-Me kind of girl, I'm a nobody. I was more of a
nobody before you came along. What if I audition and they laugh at
me? What if I really can't sing but you think I can? I'm not
ready for this Morgan! Nothing is going to change."
"You're
right. You're totally right. Nothing will ever change in your life
because you won't let it. You're letting yourself be shy, you
don't have enough confidence in yourself so you won't let
yourself have any fun in your life. And Sophie, I'm not tone deaf,
I know when someone sings good, and you are one of the best singers I
know. God has given you a gift! Don't
waste it. So come on. This is a once in a lifetime chance! All you
have to do is send in a video of you singing a 2 minute song and
saying a monologue. That's it! If you're one of the lucky 100
people you'd get callbacked to Los Angeles! How amazing would that
be, Sophie? You can't let the fear of striking out keep you from
playing the game."
Sophie giggled, again, trying to hold it back
though, and said, "Morgan, now you sound like my Grandma."
"Well,
she's right! I know that you'll get a callback at LEAST, Sophie.
And how amazing it would be if you were the winner! You would get to
stay at the Shisney Resort for two whole months with Justin
Keller!"
"I know! But that just sounds like a dream, doesn't
it? I mean, who in their craziest dreams would think that me, Sophie
White, would stay at the Shisney Resort with the five most famous
Shisney stars learning songs for my new band and rehersing for a new
show that I will be the star of. Me? The star? That sounds
crazy!"
Morgan laughs, "you are crazy Sophie. I'll be at
your house tomorrow at seven to make the videos. You will do this
wether you want to or not. Bye Sophe."
Sophie hangs up, wanting
so bad to believe in herself, wishing she could…
Dear
Diary, April 20th,
2008
I
don't know what to do. Morgan is making me send in an audition
video to the Shisney Channel for a contest that they're having.
Only a popular, outgoing girl, like Morgan, will get the part. Not a
shy non-popular 14 year old girl from Tenneesee who lives with her
grandparents who only has one friend. It's just not happening! I
mean, it can't, can it? Sooo many people, who knows how many, will
be sending their videos in. But what if I did get it? My ENTIRE life
would change. I'm not ready for a change. And if I got it, I would
not be ready for critism. I would be the next big thing. People would
be judging me – which I hate – and not only that, but when I
would be living at the Shisney Resort for those two months, it will
all be recorded, as a reality show on the Shisney Channel! What if
the most famous Shisney Channel stars that are staying with me for
those two months, (Justin Keller, Nicole Rogers, Mitchell Gomez, Emma
Cyrus and Skylar Jonas)– what if they don't like me? What if they
hate me for taking the spotlight? What if I do get this? I mean,
Morgan just thinks it's a great thing for me since I can sing. But
she's just not thinking. I would leave my home, forcing my
grandparents to move with me, I would be traveling all over the world
touring in the band (by the way, I would have to choose 2 of the
stars who are living with me in the Shisney Channel Resort to be in
my band with me – not only that, I would have to name the band) –
I would have to choose the other three stars that I didn't choose
for the band to be in the new show that I will be starring in on The
Shisney Channel, called Lexis Texas… why am I referring to myself.
I will not get this, I can't. I'm too shy, not the Shisney
Channel type. The only greatest-out-of-this-world-amazing-thing that
would happen would be meeting Justin Keller. But the whole thing is
just too impossible, so no. I will send in my audition tape since I
have no other choice, but I refuse to get the part. God, I'm just
not ready for a change, please don't make me get even a callback.
Please God. I'm just not ready.
Love,
Sophie
White, the
never-changing-always-going-to-be-the-same-non-popular-girl.
Chapter
Two
"Wake
up, Sophie," Morgan said standing beside my bed, "it's June
5th,
you know what that means!"
Sophie rolled on her stomach, trying
to fall back asleep. Morgan has always been the early-bird, way
oppisite of Sophie.
"But the mailman doesn't come until noon,"
Sophie mumbled into her pillow, half asleep. Morgan put coffee on
Sophie's nightstand saying, "Come on, get up. It's 10:30, I'm
bored, I've been awake for two hours so excited about us getting
the letter today. I made you some coffee." Sophie rolled over and
sat up, trying to force her eyes open so that she could grab her
coffee mug.
"Why are you acting like I'm going to get a
letter, Morgan?" Sophie asked, after taking a sip of her coffee.
"I
don't know that for a fact, but it's called faith. I mean, you
have to get a callback. I also made you a surprise if you come
downstairs!"
"Fine, fine, I'll get up," Sophie said,
standing up out of bed.
"Yum,"
Sophie said, eating eggs, grits, bacon and toast that Morgan cooked
for them, "This is delicious! I had no idea that you could
cook."
"Well," Morgan began, "your Grandma helped a lot
before she left. She also told me to tell you to call her when you
get the letter."
Sophie wiped her mouth with her napkin. "And
why are you guys assuming that I will get a callback? Do you even
know how unlikely it is? And what about you, Morgan? You sent in an
audition tape too! What if you get it and I don't? What if I get it
and you don't? What if we both don't get it?"
"Or even
better," Morgan said, "what if we both get it? Stop always
looking at the negative, Sophie. I don't know anything for a fact,
but I'm hoping that at least you will get it. You need this more
than I do. I have everything, I'm not afraid to admit that, but I
do! I'm not trying to say that you don't, but you've just gone
through so much, you really deserve this so much more than I do. And
plus, the only reason that I auditioned was so that you could
audition too."
Sophie looked up and smiled, "you're such a
good friend, Morgan."I know, I know," Morgan said, giggling.
Dear
Diary, June 5th,
2008
I
can't believe it. I'm still in shock. I… I got a callback. How
in the world? Not only did I get it, but Morgan did, too!!! I don't
understand this at ALL! Who in their CRAZIEST dreams would choose ME
along with 99 other people out of thousdands and thousands of
audition tapes! This feeling is the most amazing feeling I've ever
had. I hate it though. I hate the feeling I have right now, I don't
know why. Well, yes I do know why. It's because this means that I
will be flying on an airplane – something that I promised myself I
would never do in my life – and I will be auditioning for something
for the first time. The only person that I have ever sang in front of
is Morgan… and my mom. And of course I won't get it, so what
happens when all of my hopes are crushed into pieces, and the feeling
of being replaced sparks? Me, being replaced. That's something I am
so used to. My whole life has been based on being replaced. This will
be no different, in fact, it might even be worse. Morgan and I will
be all excited that we got a callback and the fact that we're in LA
– then someone else will steal the dream that we want. This is what
I want, I've never admitted that to ANYONE, not even Morgan. But
this is what I've wanted. I've wanted this for as long as I can
remember. I know I am a step closer for this dream to come true…
but it still seems so unreal. I don't think it will happen. Why did
this have to happen? Why can't things just keep going the way they
are, nothing changing, no hopes getting crushed, NO RISKS, no
nothing. The same. Same sounds good to me right now.
Love
always,
Sophie
White… the girl of same, forever and ever…