It's Kind Of Like Fate

"Oh come on Nita! It would be soo fun!" Sarah, my best friend begged me.
"No. No. No. No. Have I said no yet? Because if I haven't then no."
"Think of Cressi! She'd have so much fun watching her mommy act!" Sarah waved the paper around. "I'd have so much fun watching you act! Please!!! Do it!"
"I told you: it was a dare! I don't think it's right for me to take it!" My friend, Eliza, dared me to audition for this movie we both were dying to see, The Host, and I got the lead. It didn't help that I looked "perfect," according to Stephenie Meyer, for the role.
"Take it! Come on!" Sarah moaned.
Little Cressida walked into the room as Sarah threw her fit. "Mommy! If Aunty Sarah wants you ta do something, you do. You do!"
Sarah grinned knowing I couldn't say no -usually- to my daughter, "Cressi, do you want Mommy to be in a movie?"
"Yeah! That 'ould be awesome!"
"And Mommy would be working in Arizona. Remember being there?"
"The hot place?!" Sarah nodded and Cressida ran over to me and hugged my leg. "Please take it Mommy, please!"
"Well," I looked down at my little girls intense blue eyes; I couldn't say no to those eyes, "Ok. I could use the money. And maybe a change would be good for me."
"Yay! I go tell Aunty Eliza!" Cressida took off for Eliza, who was in the living room changing into her bikini.
I groaned after she left, "Why do you always use her against me?!"
Sarah grinned, "Because I can.. Why didn't you want to take the job? I mean: it's The Host for crying out loud!"
I thought about the reason I had stopped acting in the first place, "You know why Sarah."
Sarah frowned after I said that. "Look, Nita, it was 8 years ago, and it's not like he didn't care about you."
"But he didn't love me. He was never in love with me."
"It's not like you two would run into eachother.. Hollywood is a world of it's own when you want it to be."
I nodded, "I'm just glad we are filming in Arizona; less of a chance of seeing him again."
Sarah rolled her eyes, "You know if you had just told him about Cressi-"
"He would have sued for custody and I would be absolutely miserable without her. I did the right thing." I whispered the last sentence -speaking it more-so to myself- as Cressida dragged Eliza outside.
"Ok, so what is the lilttle chica telling me about the "hot place," whatever that is?"
"Pack your bags we're going to Arizona!" Sarah screamed excitedly.
"What?! Why?! Not that I'm complaining, but why?" Eliza sat down on the lawn chair looking from me to Sarah.
"Remember you daring Nita to audition for The Host?"
"Yes," she looked at me with a face full of realization, "NO! Oh. My. Gosh. NITA! Oh wow! We're back baby!" She said jumping out of her chair to hug me.