Fortune Favors the Bold

Mr. Browne’s December precept was: Fortune favors the bold. We
were all supposed to write a paragraph about some time in our lives
when we did something very brave and how, because of it, something
good happened to us.
I thought about this a lot, to be truthful. I have to say that I think
the bravest thing I ever did was become friends with August. But I
couldn’t write about that, of course. I was afraid we’d have to read
these out loud, or Mr. Browne would put them up on the bulletin
board like he does sometimes. So, instead, I wrote this lame thing
about how I used to be afraid of the ocean when I was little. It was
dumb but I couldn’t think of anything else.
I wonder what August wrote about. He probably had a lot of things
to choose from.