Seven Deadly Riddles- Part One

“Okay, hold on,” Tobias says, breaking the train of my panicking thoughts. “So this is an app that pays people money for ruining other people’s lives?”

I’m in so much shock, I can’t even speak.

“And like Sierra is Tina Thompson?” Tobias continues with his chain of unanswered questions. “Is it like a fake name? Or is it Tina’s phone and not Sierra’s? Because, you know, it’s weird to have two phones.”

But all I’m doing is staring at the screen. Staring at the words and trying to understand how could any human being agree to do this.

“It’s Sierra’s,” I rasp faintly. “She has all our pictures.”

Tobias doesn’t say anything for a while and all I can hear, meanwhile, is the teachers’ nonsensational bickering.

“Select it,” Tobias requests. “Let’s see if it’s what we’re all thinking about.”