Wow it is such a beautiful day to walk through the forest!

I wish I had a friend to walk with me. I wish I wasn't so alone.

Sodium started to run to the city to see if he could find a friend.

Why don't I have a friend? I do have an atomic number of 11. My atomic mass is about 22.99 amu. Is that too much mass for other elements to handle?...

There are so many other elements! Magnesium, helium, and argon are here, but I can't find the right element to be my friend.

Sodium left the city and went to the beach to be alone. He began to worry that he would never find a friend.

I am a soft and reactive metal. Maybe I don't deserve a good friend.

Then, all of a sudden, Sodium felt like something was very different. He realized that something was missing.

✓ 11 protons

X 11 electrons

✓ 12 neutrons

Sodium checked to see if he had everything in place... and he found that he had lost an electron!