NOTES THAT WERE IN MY BOX (NUMBER 11)
What Happened When the Bell Rang at the End of the Day
Grace came up to me and said that she thought Mr. Frank was for sure going to get a real good mark on this project from Miss Lois. She could tell this because Mr. Frank and Miss Lois were talking and doing lots of smiling. Then Grace gave me a hug and said, "I'll see you later, Grace." "See you, Grace," I said, and I waved a goodbye at her that turned into a hello wave to Mimi, who was watching us.
Mimi walked over real slow, and that was probably because she was scared she was still going to be allergic to me. I couldn't wait to tell her how great she was in the N, and how I never could have believed it if I didn't see it with my very own eyes.
Mimi was not as happy as I thought she'd be, and I could tell that because of my empathy power. She said thank you but then didn't want to talk about it anymore. I was hoping she would do a handstand just for me so I could see close up how to do it, but instead she wanted to talk about her poster. "Did you guess which one I did?" asked Mimi.
I looked around the room but I couldn't decide which one to pick. "That one," said Mimi, and she pointed to the Lost My Best Friend poster next to the fire alarm. I couldn't believe it. Mimi had the saddest poster in the whole class and it was a message all about me.
"Mimi, I'm not lost. I'm right here," I said. "But what about your new Grace friends?" asked Mimi. I could tell that she wasn't believing me 100 percent that she was still my best friend forever. She was feeling the exact same way I used to be feeling about Max and Sammy, except maybe even worse, because I didn't make my poster about it.
My Secret Helper
Sometimes it is really hard to make a person believe something when they think another thing might really be the truth. Like how Mimi was thinking that maybe I wanted to be best friends with the Graces instead of her, which was 100 percent not the truth. And if this kind of thing happened, then you could be wishing that you had a real magic bead-head necklace to make a wish on so the not-the-truth feeling would go away.
But I didn't need that because I had something better, and as soon as I showed it to Mimi she knew that we were still the best friends ever. And when we hugged she didn't even have one sneeze!
Epilogue
I know about the word epilogue because sometimes at the last part of an Unlikely Heroes show they put it on the TV screen right before they tell you what the people in the story are doing now Usually it's not hero stuff, but still, it's kind of fun to know about it. An epilogue is the place where you tell what happened at the end, when the main part of the story is finished. Stuff like how I showed Mimi the note I had written about her Lost poster and how that made her smile a real happy Mimi smile. How Owen gave the red pen he had found back to Sarah, who had lost it. How Mr. Frank was for sure going to get an excellent student-teacher mark because now he and Miss Lois smiled at each other all the time and his face never got red. How standing talking to three other Graces at the same time can be really fun. And then, finally, how playing with four friends can sometimes be just as much fun as playing with just one friend, even when that one friend is your best friend forever.
What Grace Will be Thinking About in her Next Book
Still Just Grace Page 6
