O'Ryan Keys put down the newpaper with a "hm."

Dr. Val Burner looked up from her equation work. "O'Ryan?"

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Everything alright? Usually, you put down the newspaper with more noise," Val said.

"Oh, I'm fine," O'Ryan replied. "I just learned that our author just graduated from high school."

A pause, and then a sigh.

"We don't have an author," Val said finally. "That's just fake news."

"No no, it's not," O'Ryan replied. He grabbed the newspaper and held it up to Val. On the front of it, a person stood smiling in purple next to a man dressed in red. "See?"

"Who would spread such news?" Val asked. "It's obviously not true."

"The Mathmatical Monitor," O'Ryan said.

"And I'll repeat myself: Who would spread such lies?"

O'Ryan turned the newspaper over to reveal the Sunflower Mathematician's "face." "Prime Writer/Editor" was written beneath the photo.

"Oh, you have got to be [shpxing] kidding me," Val replied.

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Soooo, that was a story way of saying "hey, I graduated!" but my brain wouldn't shut up unless I did it this way. So here is a segment of CPP characters reacting to an article in The Mathmatical Monitor, a newspaper I just made up.

-kA

(Edit: "Writor." That's embarassing. Fixed.)