After My Childhood Sweetheart Betrayed Me

The post-exam party. Someone suggested Never Have I Ever.

Neal James went first.

"I got an early admission recommendation to Northbridge University. Didn't even sit the college entrance exams."

The karaoke lounge erupted in cheers.

Senior year, the Olympiad competition—make the national team and you walked straight into an early admission recommendation. I'd prepped for the better part of a year, then an allergy attack floored me right before the exam and I never made it to the competition at all.

I folded down a finger without a word.