Chapter 4

After saying that, to prevent myself from hesitating again, I opened my laptop in front of her.

Without any hesitation, at the last minute before the deadline, I changed my first choice to that famous university in Florida.

Lily was of course overjoyed.

She had been begging me to apply to the same school for a long time.

But when we first started high school, I had already made a promise with Ryan that we would work hard together and go to his dream school in New York after the SATs.

That's where his favorite aerospace program was.

So even though I didn't particularly like the cold North, and didn't have much interest in that engineering-focused school, for all three years of high school, I still made it my goal.

After being neighbors for so many years, both sets of parents were happy for us to go to the same college.

Everyone, including me, thought that Ryan and I would naturally become a couple after we became adults.

But now, I couldn't find any reason to go to New York anymore.

Or rather, after today, if I still clung to Ryan like before.

I would despise myself.

Now I just wanted to hide far away. It didn't matter where, as long as Ryan wasn't there.

If he was in the North, then I would go South.