Once Norah and Zara returned back to the apartment, they decided to finish their last day by playing board games. Samantha was in the kitchen reading a cookbook, this is the first time Norah had someone over, so she wanted to make Zara something nice for dinner.
"Zara dear! Do you have a preference in food?" The girls sat in the living room.
The young teen shook her head, "I'll eat almost anything."
"Okay, that's nice to know, um how about allergies?"
Zara thought about it and nods, "Yes, I can't eat shrimp." She states.
"Thank you," Samantha returns to the cookbook and looked through it.
Norah rolls the dice on the table, and it landed it on two.
Zara smiled when it was her turn and rolled a five.
"One, two, three, I win." She grinned.
Norah's eyes widened. "Wow, I don't think I've ever saw you this happy before," she says.
Zara shrugged and took a drink of water.
They restarted the game and waited for dinner to be ready.
"I can't wait for Samson to return to the studio and dance with us." Norah was telling Zara.
Samantha placed the food on the table, "Girls, dinners ready!"
Norah told her friend to go to the table while she put the board games away. Zara nodded and went to the table, once Norah was done putting the games back in the closet, she sat at the table across from Zara.
Samantha decided to make chicken sandwiches.
After saying grace, Zara takes a bite of the sandwich and mumbles.
"So good." Under her breath.
Norah giggled.
After a long day her mom's chicken sandwiches are the best thing to end it with.
She hummed, "These are great mom."
"Thank you, sweetie, how do you like it, Zara?"
Norah looks at her friend, and Zara smiles, "It's really good, Mrs. Wright."
Samantha smiled.
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It's later in the afternoon and earlier Zara left the apartment and returned to her home.
For her first sleepover Norah thinks it went pretty well.
The Wright girl didn't feel like staying home the whole day, so she decided to visit her aunt's restaurant which kind of a family business.
Her cousin's sometimes help out in the restaurant, and so does she whenever she stops by there. One of Norah's favorite things to do is talk to strangers, something she has in common with Jeremy which is probably the second reason why they get along so good.
Skipping inside the MD Rest Stop Norah grins as she saw her cousin Royale taking customer's orders. Royale writes down the small family's order, "Anything else, sir?" He asks the man.
The man shook his head and Royale nods.
"Okay, I'll be back with your order." The teen boy turned around to see his older cousin by two months standing at the entrance of the restaurant.
Royale smiled and walked toward her, "Hi, Norah."
"Hiya, little cuz!" She hugged him.
"By two months," he smirks.
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The Stage Is Set
General FictionNorah has been dancing for as long as she can remember, the first time she started dancing was beside her mother on the big stage. She was three years old and Samantha saw potential in her daughter. Norah first took interest in dancing at the age of...
