Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick

Author:Heather Vogel Frederick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

I was wrong about the headline. It was much worse.

“PUMPKIN FALLS HAS A NEW SUPERHERO!” yodeled Scooter, flapping the Pumpkin Falls Patriot-Bugle over his head and capering around our homeroom. “DARING YOUNG SHEPHERDESS SAVES THE DAY!”

“Shut up, Scooter,” I told him.

He ignored me, of course. “Truly Drooly strikes again!”

I gave him a withering look as my classmates dissolved into laughter. He’d promised not to use Hatcher’s horrid nickname for me, but Scooter could never resist being—well, Scooter.

As if the blaring headline wasn’t bad enough, thanks to Clark Barque and his camera, my face was plastered all over the front page. The photograph was huge and showed me shaking a maraca in one hand and brandishing the rescue hook from the pool in the other. I looked like a demented Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon.

“We’re laughing with you, not at you,” said Calhoun, lying through his teeth. Beside him, Lucas tried and failed to stifle a giggle. “C’mon, can’t you take a joke? It’s not that bad. All’s well that ends well, right?”

I glared at him in response. How dare he quote Shakespeare at me!

“Calhoun’s right,” said Jasmine. “Nice ink.”

Emilio raised his eyebrows at this.

“You know, ‘ink’ as in the ink they use to print newspapers?” said Jasmine. “It’s what reporters say to each other when someone writes a good story.”

“Ah, si.” Emilio nodded. “Yes, very good story. You are the town hero, Truly. Or perhaps I should say, superhero.”

He smirked at me. I made a rude noise as my friends dissolved into laughter again.

Calhoun punched me lightly on the arm. “How’d it go with the lock-picking?”

“Wait, that I understand,” said Emilio, whipping around and raising his eyebrows at me again. “You picked a lock?”

I opened my mouth, then shut it again. There was a price to be paid for humiliating me. “I’ll tell you at lunchtime,” I replied loftily. “Maybe.”

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