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Chapter 2 Hours later, Billy wandered around the empty rent-an-office, stepping over all the plastic cups and paper plates and other mess his celebrating friends had left behind. He’d usually pick it up to keep himself busy, even at six in the morning when everyone else was hung over and not due until nine the next morning in any case. But this mess paled in comparison to the real mess he was eyes-deep in. Less than a week ago, four days ago, everything had seemed so perfect. Billy should have known then that anything that went so easily as their NerdNest campaign was doomed to not only fail, but to cause bigger trouble than it ever could have solved. He detoured around a drift of confetti—probably made from shredded coding notes—shaking his head. No, their holo-app project hadn’t fai