Dear Mouse Friends,

Have you ever made a mistake? I mean, a really big mistake? Well, I hate to say it, but I may have just made the biggest mistake of my newsmouse career. Her name is Pinky Pick and she’s my new assistant. My secretary Mousella MacMouser warned me. She told me that I should interview Pinky before I let her sign a contract. Did I listen to her? Noooooo. And now I am stuck with a bossy, meddling mouse for an assistant!

I was expecting a grown-up with real newspaper experience, not a little fourteen-year-old mouselet. The minute she walked into my office, I nearly choked on my cheese! She was wearing a large yellow t-shirt covered with Swiss cheese holes, bright green leggings, and shocking pink high-top sneakers with see-through platform soles. The soles were filled with water and pink plastic fish. Her outfit was so bright I actually needed sunglasses.

As if that wasn’t enough to make my head spin faster than the Screamin’ Rat Roller Coaster at the amousement park, she’s also loud and pushy. Before she even finished a day of work, Pinky had the nerve to ask for all kinds of things. Here’s a list of her (completely unreasonable) demands:

#1 A mega-huge bonus each year
#2 Three months of paid vacation
#3 All expenses paid, including her clothes
#4 A raise

Cheese nibblets! This really rubbed my fur the wrong way. Who does she think she is? A mobmouse? I’ve written all about how she completely turned my life upside down in my new book, My Name Is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton! Now that I think of it, she reminds me of someone: Thea! As if one Thea isn’t enough, now I have two!!

Yours truly,

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