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.

and

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

really thought they could play

happened. How could you score zero?" Selene's voice was desperate, her

elimination from the prelims would wreck her reputation

old, would

joke, going back to Austenberg would be like walking

"The results are wrong."

eyes, Flora pressed her lips together and

out of his chair when he heard

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

on the answers, maybe she was just that unlucky, not

finding her comments unhelpful. He stared hard at Flora, asking urgently, "Flora, I'm asking you again, are you sure there's something wrong with the

for him to

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

about her solid

swnov

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

Flora mentioned it, he

on Flora, and after seeing her nod, he made up his

would request a review of the

out; as long as Flora's score was over fifty, they could still