Chapter 4

The room went dead silent. Daniel and Nina stared in shock, their eyes wide.

My mom stood up from her chair, her face full of disbelief.

My dad, thinking the teacher must have gotten it wrong, put the call on speaker and repeated, only to be sure. "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? I'm Zoe's father.

"She's the girl who's always at the bottom of the class."

He almost couldn't bring himself to say that last part.

The teacher's voice was firm. "No way I got it wrong. Zoe is the best-performing student in the entire class this…