Picture of Angie

Chapter 2

"How was your day?" Kylie yelled at me from the living room when I opened the door to our apartment.

"Don't forget to say hi to our umbrella stand." she added and I laughed. 

"Hello to you too." I said to her when I came to sit next to her on the couch where she was reading a script. I grabbed some food from the boxes which were on the coffee table.

"Jimmy stopped by." she said pointing at the boxes.

"I thought so." I replied and took a fork full of spaghetti. Jimmy works with her in the restaurant and sometimes brings the food he cooked with himself. I don't complain as cooking isn't my thing. At least we have everyday something to eat.

"Remind me to send him a thank you card." I told her with my mouth full.

"Sure. You can sign me there too." she replied. "So how was your day?" she asked again and looked up from the script at me with her blue eyes full of worries.

"Oh, please don't look at me like that." I started and put the food back on the table. "I told you I am moving on."

"Ok." she said.

"And it was boring at work to answer your question." I looked at her.

"Yeah you probably wasn't working in coffee shop in your previous life." She smiled and I punched her with the nearest pillow into her arm.

"Actually there was one interesting moment." I remembered. 

"Really? Tell me more." She said. 

"There was one young guy probably eighteen or nineteen." I started.

"Eww. God Angie. Don't you think he would be too young for you? I didn't thought you are a cougar." She said disgusted but with slight smile. I punched her into her shoulder with that pillow again.

"Hey I am not that old. I guess it could be only six years difference between me and him but let me finish." I said as the doctors supposed that I could be twenty five. Kylie was actually twenty five too.

"So he came over and I asked him what coffee he wants and he was just staring at me like he was seing a ghost. He was standing there literally frozen." I explained. 

"Creepy." Kylie said.

"Yes. Exactly. But when I approached him again he finally responded. He apologized and said that I looked just like his sister-in-law whom he didn't saw for a while."I added.

"Really?" Kylie got excited.

"And I got my hopes up and said that well maybe we are the same person but I didn't wanted to sound creepy so it sounded like a joke but I was quietly hoping he would say something like she is lost or something but he just shook his head and said he wished but she was dead. And then he left without ordering anything."I finished the story. 

"Wow." Kylie added.

"Yeah. But I am done. Really I just can't. You are right with the media thing. I couldn't stand this feeling I just felt when he mentioned I looked like someone he knew and then lost the hope again. I already called Detective Martin and told him to delete me from the database." I said to her determined.

"What?" She asked me surprised. 

"It is the best thing to do so I can move on. Now I only have to pay the bills from the hospital and then I can live a new life." I replied.

"Are you sure?" She asked me worriedly and I just nodded.

 We sat there silently and ate for a while.

"Anyway, how is the script?" I asked her noticing the pile of papers on the table.

"It is actually really great." she got excited.

"What is it about?" 

"It is a romantic comedy and chick lit. I laughed like crazy when I was reading it and I think this is going to be hit. It is about two friends and their trip to Vegas. It kind of reminds me of Bridesmaids. " she said.

"It sounds interesting. Do you remember some lines already?" I replied.

"Yes. This two pages. Here let's go through it together." She gave me the script and I was acting like the other female character. It really was a good script.      

"You know what? You are quite good at acting." she said after we went through the whole script together.

"Oh shut up." I told her.

"Really. You should try it. I've got an idea. What if you come with me to the audition and you can try to audition for the other part? The producers are saying Hollywood needs some new faces that's why they are looking for someone fresh and they audition only with unknown faces for this lead roles." she said excited.

"You think it could work?" I asked her skeptically.

"You can try. You never know what can happen. And I will help you to prepare for the audition. Look at me. If it doesn't work now we will make it other time. I didn't get a part in first audition and still didn't make it in Hollywood but I know it will happen. And now I have a really good feeling that this could work out." she said to me very confident. Kylie is probably the most positive thinking person I know and sometimes I think she is crazy.

"But Kylie. What if they will want to know where I went to school and my background. What about my family? I don't even have an ID. You know I am working in the coffee shop illegally. It was the only possibility to get a job." I said and she started to think.

"You can say you have been home schooled and when they ask you about your family, well I am your family. We can say we are cousins. I don't have any family left and I could really use some cousin at least." She said after a while and smiled at me.

"And we should call Detective Martin and ask him about the ID thing. We totally forget about this little detail." She said and immediately grabbed the phone and dialed his number.

After a while of "aha,...Aha, ... Aha..." talk I heard from her she hung up.

"So? What did he said?" I asked her eagerly.

"Tomorrow we are going to legalize you. Just choose a name." she smiled at me.

"That's it?" I asked surprised and she nodded excitedly.

"How should I call you now?" She asked me. I was quite overwhelmed from all of it.

"Let me think about it ok?" I said to her.

"Ok. One more thing. We should probably change your hair color. The character you will audition for is brunette not blonde. And you would look like mine cousin if you had a brunette hair as I have." she added.

Why not. Blonde isn't even my natural color. It looked like I have been dyeing it regularly before so I just continued with it. I was a natural brunette.

We went to the drugstore and choose my new hair color together. It was the color which was almost the same shade as my natural color. When we came back Kylie dyied my hair and we were chatting how great it would be if we both got the part in the movie. Kylie washed my hair, dried it and styled it. Then she brought a mirror.

"Here. Look at yourself." She said and handed me the mirror.

I was looking at myself. At my face on which I finally got used to after six months and my new hair. It looked better than the blonde.

 "Now we have both brown hair and blue eyes. We can really say we are cousins." she laughed.

"Did you already choose the name?"  she asked me.

"I like my name right know." I replied to her.

"Angie it is. And the surname?"  I hesitated before I answered.

"I was thinking Cooper? If you don't mind?" I asked her a little bit uncertain as it was her surname.

"Really? Cooper it is. My cousin from my fathers side." She laughed and I laughed with her. Then she jumped on the couch and yelled to the whole living room.

"World meet my cousin, Angie Cooper!"  

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