But she was ready to tell it again the next day as soon as she got to school. After all, it was such a great story! Or maybe she would let other people tell it. She liked that a lot, too. The only thing was nobody seemed to want to hear her story anymore. And there was something worse. No one seemed to want to call her Sophie the Hero, either. Sophie did not understand it! One day, she was a hero and everyone was talking about her. The next day, they were talking about stuff like Dean’s new haircut. And Eve’s lost tooth. And Sophie A.’s fish, who just had babies. And Ben’s mom, who just had her baby, too. Okay. So maybe Dean’s haircut was pretty funny-looking. And maybe a fish having babies was cool. But all kids lost their teeth. And all moms had babies. At least one, Sophie thought. But not everyone was a hero! How could they have forgotten about her already? Even after she’d drawn a big H for “hero” on her shirt with a marker that very morning. Even Sophie’s sidekick, Kate, was joking with Dean about his hair.
