Summary

In Chapter 1, Bronwyn narrates as she gets caught reading the About That gossip app by Simon Kelleher, the boy who created and runs the app. Bronwyn tries to get away from Simon but he follows her, asking if she is off to some extracurricular activity. He laughs when she walks to the classroom where detention is held and voices his surprise that they are both in detention together. Bronwyn tells him that she had been “wrongfully accused” (4). Among the students already there are Nate Macauley, a troublemaker; Cooper Clay, an athlete; and Addy Prentiss, considered a beauty queen.

Bronwyn raises her hand and tells Mr. Avery that the phone he found in her backpack was not hers. Addy and Cooper say they also had phones taken from them that were not their phones. They decide they were set up and Simon suggests...