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.

She’d been begging me since junior year to join her at Stanford, painting pictures of California sunshine and Silicon Valley dreams.

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

were twelve.

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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

or campus coffee shops – it made me physically ill. Or rather, after today, if I kept trailing after Aiden like his faithful shadow, I wouldn’t be able to look at myself

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