After She Stole My Future

Synopsis

The day before the physics competition, my boyfriend Lucas Hart, the school board chairman's son, gave my competition slot to his childhood friend, Emily Sinclair. Lucas shrugged and said, "You've competed so many times already. What's one more? Emily finally found something she's interested in. Just let her have this one." But I had told him. I had told him my grandmother had cancer and needed the two hundred thousand dollar prize money to survive. I said, "Lucas, please. I'm begging you. Just this one competition. I won't compete with her ever again, I promise." I was begging him in front of everyone, right there in the hallway. Something flickered in his eyes, like he almost felt sorry for me. But then his phone rang, and he shook me off. Lucas looked at me and said, "Emily's suicidal. I can't just stand by and watch her kill herself. Your grandmother's been sick for years now. A few more days won't make a difference." He stepped back and added, "Sophie, you need to understand. Emily's like my little sister. We grew up together. I can't abandon her." That same day, my grandmother died because she couldn't get the surgery in time. Later, I applied for the foreign exchange program and disappeared from his world. That was when he started to panic.