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“Don’t say anything,” Kendall told her. “It’s our secret.”

Everly wiggled, shaking her short arms like there was music playing. “Okay!”

“So, the two of you are keeping secrets from me?” I crossed my arms over the table, attempting to look pissed. But that was hardly the case. The two of them couldn’t be more adorable together.

Everly was enamored with Kendall.

“It’s a girl thing,” Kendall told me.

“And I’m a big girl now,” Everly added.

The waitress dropped off Everly’s milk and our coffees and cups of water and said, “What can I get you to eat?”

“Cinnamon roll pancakes for me,” Kendall said. “I’ll take the cinnamon whipped butter as well.”

“And for you?” the waitress asked me.

“The strawberry almond pancakes, and this one”—I nodded toward Everly—“will take the chocolate chip, the full stack. Whipped butter and syrup on both.”

As soon as the waitress left, I looked at Everly and said, “Do you know that Kendall is going to be on TV?”

Her eyes widened again. “Like in the movies? With th