My Mother Plants a Phone

Summary

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"Proctor, she has a phone in her bag! I saw her using it to look up answers last night!"

At the gates of the National Merit Exam, just behind the security line, my mother suddenly lunged out of the crowd.

She pointed at my backpack and screamed at the top of her lungs.

The bustling street fell into a deathly silence.

Thousands of eyes―parents, students, and police officers―pierced through me like serrated blades.

The lead proctor's face turned ashen as he grabbed me out of the security li