I’m standing in the middle of the restaurant, my phone clutched in my hand as I stare at the screen. The

headline glares back at me: “Inside Abby’s Bizarre World: A Journey into the Mind of a Lunatic.”

“Guys, you have to see this,” I say, grinning as I turn the screen towards Daisy, Chloe, Karl, John, Ethan,

and Anton.

Karl starts to chuckle. “Oh my god, look, she included my quote—’it’s like being a hamster on a disco ball:

spinning but fabulous.”

Daisy snickers. “That was pure gold, Karl. I’m surprised you came up with that one.”

Chloe leans over my shoulder. “And she actually wrote about your ‘commute from Mars’? How gullible

was this lady?”

Enter title…

he almost spits out his coffee. “This is hilarious. Do you think she realized we

messing with her?”

hope not,” Anton says, shaking his head. “It

reveling in the absurdity of it all, my phone rings. The laughter dies down a bit as I

Mr. Thompson,” I announce before swiping to

article.” His voice is

my team,” I reply,

“Quite the story, huh?”

practically feel the tension emanating through

for someone who is competing in the

thinking?”

of what’s happening. “Mr. Thompson, I can explain.

found out too late, and we thought responding this way would at least

discreditable.”

have been more cautious, Abby. Such

knotting, the weight of his words crushing my earlier triumph. “I understand that

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