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

messing with her?”

says, shaking his head. “It adds to the mystery,

of it all, my phone rings. The laughter dies

Thompson,” I announce before swiping

seen the article.” His

my team,” I reply, shooting a look at

“Quite the story, huh?”

and I can practically feel the

is terrible press for someone who is competing in the cook-off. What were

thinking?”

realizing the gravity of what’s happening. “Mr. Thompson, I

fraud. We found out too late, and we thought

discreditable.”

more cautious, Abby. Such naivety doesn’t

weight of his words crushing my earlier

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