SSA had led the way and set the precedent—mall outings were officially legal. I arrived at school, scanning the crowd for Hazel’s sister. Unfortunately, there was no one new. After the pledges, I walked alongside Kenny and Denver. “It was a historic achievement! Though GCAM wasn’t there,” I noted. “Wow, that’s interesting, Ethan. We’ll have to go sometime,” Kenny replied. “Yeah, maybe we can put it on GNN. Good thing there’s no alternate news service trying to undermine us. GNN is based on CNN, right? So imagine something like… Hawk News, spreading fake news to ruin our image. That would be terrible.” “That would actually be hilarious,” Denver said. “Yeah,” I nodded. “Spying on the others…” When I got to my second class, our teacher made an announcement. “Students, make sure you're still tracking a stock market over the month.” We’d been studying the stock market. That’s when I had an idea. In STEM, I was working on a group project with Jenna, Allison, and Jeff. De...
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