Wait…Why Did Everyone I Love Suddenly Call Me a Bitch?! novel Chapter 63

Chapter 4

The real blow? My college apps..

I’d applied to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Art school. My dream school.

What I got instead? Acceptance letter from some community college I’d never heard of. Middle of nowhere in Nebraska.

I lost my shit. Checked everything. Found out someone had logged into my Common App and changed all my schools.

Only person who knew my password? Garrett.

I ran to his building, screaming at him from the street.

At first, he played dumb. Said he had no idea what I was talking about.

Then Harper came out from behind him, eyes all teary.

“Sloane, don’t… don’t blame Garrett. It’s my fault. I saw your password and I just thought… I was trying to help you find better schools, I swear, I

didn’t mean to-”

She’s full-on crying now.

Garrett grabs her, pulls her behind him, and gets right in my face.

“Sloane! Enough! She was trying to HELP you!”

I start laughing. Can’t help it. It’s like this insane laugh that won’t stop and suddenly I’m crying too.

“Help me? You call that helping? You fucked up my entire future and you’re saying you were HELPING?”

Right then, looking at these two people, I felt sick.

Years of friendship. Everything my parents did for him. All of it meant less to Garrett than Harper’s crocodile tears.

I was done. Completely done.

Told him we were over. For real this time.

When my parents found out, my dad almost went over there to beat his ass.

He tried calling in favors, getting my apps fixed. But it was too late. Deadlines had passed.

Back then, our apartment felt suffocating. The vibe was just dead.

To help me decompress, my mom decided to take me to Philly. There was this art exhibit I’d been wanting to see.

But on the drive there, our bus got hit by a semi that ran a red light,

I just remember the sound of brakes screeching, The impact. And my mom throwing her body over mine at the last second.

When I woke up, I was in a hospital.

Minor concussion. Some cuts and bruises. Nothing serious.

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My mom? Brain bleed. Coma.

Doctors said she might never wake up. That continuing treatment and care would cost a fortune.

My dad’s hair went white overnight.

Our whole world collapsed.

We were just a normal middle-class family. All our savings disappeared into ICU bills like water down a drain.

My dad sold our apartment. We moved into this tiny rental.

He worked during the day, stayed at the hospital at night. Aged ten years in a month.

Right then, all my pride and dreams shattered.

Retaking the SATS? Going to college?

That shit became a fantasy.

I needed money. For my mom. For our family.

So I put down my paintbrushes. Started working like crazy.

Waited tables at diners. Handed out flyers on street corners. Did construction cleanup.

Worst times, I ate one meal a day. Just a bagel.

And Garrett?

He got into Columbia. Full ride. Left New York with Harper. Never looked back.

Never once came to see me. Never came to see my mom-the woman who’d treated him like her own son-lying in that hospital bed.

Like we were just some irrelevant footnote in his success story.

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