Sophie Gets Real by Nancy N. Rue

Author:Nancy N. Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zonderkidz

Seven

The next day, Sophie was sure the rest of the Corn Flakes had taken her silence as a yes. And a yes, she quickly figured out, made everybody happier.

Kitty didn’t nervous-giggle as much. Willoughby gave fewer poodle-yips. Darbie declared that she hadn’t wanted to call anybody an eejit for a whole day.

So why, Sophie asked herself, didn’t she feel all happy and free the way everybody else did now that Project Brooke was over?

One answer she knew right away. Without Brooke there, taking all of Sophie’s attention, she couldn’t keep her mind off baby Hope. What if nobody could help Hope when she got to be Brooke’s age? What if people gave up on her and were glad when she wasn’t around? The questions itched like poison ivy that was spreading.

Sophie only knew that if she gave up on Brooke, it would be like giving up on her own little sister. No matter what the other Corn Flakes decided, she had to be ready the minute Brooke came back.

Which was why, after school on Tuesday, Sophie went to the library and logged on to a computer back in the corner. The schedule of every student at GMMS was on a list anybody could pull up. She didn’t even need Dr. Devon Downing for that.

Sophie scrolled through the R’s and the S’s until she came to Singletary, Brooke. She poised her gel pen over her notebook, ready to write down room numbers, but she couldn’t take her eyes from the screen.

Period 1 — Special Education/Language Arts Room 202

Period 2 — Special Education/Study Skills Room 202

Period 3 — Physical Education Gym

The rest of the classes were Special Ed too. There was even tutoring scheduled after school on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Sophie thought she had to be dreaming. She leaned closer to peer through her glasses, but the words were really there.

I don’t remember the Internet saying kids with ADHD were Special Ed, she thought. In fact, she knew they weren’t. One article had even said ADHD kids were just as bright as other kids, only they couldn’t concentrate enough to get their work done. So what was going on?

Dr. Devon Downing pushed herself back from her microscope and used extreme willpower not to hurl it across the room. Once again, she was confronted with a medical mystery that perhaps she couldn’t solve. Something else was wrong with Ann-D-H-D’s brain, perhaps something that, like Down syndrome, couldn’t be cured. No wonder the subject broke trays over people’s heads and stomped on their feet —

“She’s not a subject,” Sophie said out loud. “She’s a person — and I can’t help her either.”

She left the library before she started throwing books off the shelves.

The urge to throw things didn’t go away. That night Sophie couldn’t see Jesus’ eyes again. She wanted to ask him her questions and belt out her doubts, but it all stuck in her throat.

Maybe he just didn’t want to listen to her.

During the break between first and second periods the next morning,

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