Chapter 4

Chapter 4

To silence any second thoughts, I opened my laptop right there on FaceTime with Maya.

Without hesitation, moments before the midnight deadline, I logged into the Common App portal and changed my acceptance from Columbia to Stanford. The cursor hovered over the “Confirm Change” button for just a second before I clicked, watching my future transform with a single mouse click.

was ecstatic, practically bouncing off her bed. She’d been begging me since junior year to join

freshman year, Aiden and I had made a promise over late–night study sessions and shared dreams. We’d work hard, ace our SATS, and head to Columbia together. The aerospace engineering program there had been his dream since the day his

were twelve.

I’d spent three years of high school making it my goal. Every AP class, every SAT prep session, every extracurricular -all carefully chosen to match Columbia’s requirements. I’d even joined the robotics club just because Aiden said it would look good on our applications.

me over for Sunday dinners, talking about how nice it would be to have both of us at Columbia, casually mentioning all her friends whose children had found their soulmates during freshman orientation. Everyone, including me, thought Aiden and I would naturally become a couple

The thought of walking those same campus paths with him, sharing classes, running into him and Madison at the library or campus coffee shops –

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