Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life

The results were out; what more could anyone say?

Even thinking about blaming Flora seemed pointless now.

Because honestly, what good would it do?

It was just heartbreaking.

A few girls, led by Debra, couldn't hold back their tears.

Months of hard work, just down the drain, completely wasted!

Joy felt a bit bummed out too, though she never expected Flora to score zero.

But Flora's score didn't really affect her much.

Ms. Abbey had assured her she'd find a way to get her into the medical program anyway.

"Flora, what happened?" Selene asked, her voice full of worry.

Scoring zero was just too bizarre.

There had to be some sort of mistake.

Flora's eyes were icy as she stood up, pulling her hand out of her jacket pocket.

tight, and she radiated a

onto the scrolling results on the big screen, and suddenly, she

could

on, tell us what happened. How could you score zero?" Selene's voice was desperate,

of Flora's zero score and her elimination from the prelims would

whole country, young and old, would

would be

"The results are wrong."

Flora pressed her lips

wrong?!" Mr. Tanner jumped out of his chair when he heard

if you scored zero, then you scored zero, Just accept it..." Joy said, her face a mix of emotions. "The medical competition has been around for years, it's super credible. There's no way the results are

on the answers, maybe she was just that

talking!" Mr. Tanner cut off Joy sharply, finding her comments unhelpful. He stared hard at Flora, asking urgently, "Flora, I'm asking you again, are you sure there's

him to believe Flora could score

medical department set the exam, Flora aced it, and she always got perfect scores

about

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hadn't attended the pre-competition medical training and had guessed on

now that Flora mentioned it, he sensed something was

Flora, and after seeing her

a review of

Flora's score was over fifty, they could still make it to