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…

coffee. “This is hilarious.

messing with her?”

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

my phone rings. The laughter dies down a bit

Thompson,” I

seen the article.” His voice is stern,

it with my team,” I reply, shooting a look at

“Quite the story, huh?”

Thompson pauses, and I can practically feel the

someone who is competing

thinking?”

of what’s happening.

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

discreditable.”

Such naivety doesn’t bode

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

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