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𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓌𝑒 𝒹𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒; 𝒲𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓇𝓃, 𝓌𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝒻 𝓌𝑒'𝓇𝑒 𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒜𝒯𝓈. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓉𝓈, 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓈𝓉. 𝐻𝓊𝓂𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻-𝒹𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓉, 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝒷𝓈𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻-𝓂𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒸𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓅. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜'𝓈 𝓊𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝓊𝓁𝑒𝓈, 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂.

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓪'𝓼 𝓟𝓸𝓿

My thumbs hit the keys of my handheld SAT practice device cautiously as I meticulously picked through answers. With the SAT's only a couple days away, my need for being academically perfect is at an all time high, along with my need for my prescribed Adderall and Ativan. I shouldn't be so stressed and anxious when I've aced the practice test numerous times, but with the added pressure from Bart I've become a full on medicated zombie, running on two hours of sleep.

"Twenty- two hundred." Blair announced disappointedly. I had originally sat in the courtyard to study by myself since the library was packed, and I guess she and Serena ran into the same problem since they ended up joining me.

"That's ninetieth percentile." Serena said, her un-wavered focus on making sure she's successful with this test has been surprising to say the least. Hell, she's been studying more than me, which is really saying something.

"Which means Nelly Yuki probably got a twenty-three hundred." Blair states. Since SAT's doesn't affect our grades, I've put my little one-sided competition with Nelly Yuki aside and since then Blair has taken her own competition with the girl.

"You don't even talk to her, so why do you even care?" Serena asked

"Nelly Yuki has her sights on Yale, too. So, what are the odds of them accepting two girls from Constance." Blair asked, Serena and I groaned. "And have either of you seen Nelly Yuki's extracurriculars? I need to kick her well-rounded ass."

"And they said you've lost your touch." Serena quipped, I plugged in my last answer then sat my device down for it to process my answers.

"Serena, this is serious, Nelly Yuki must be destroyed." Serena and I laughed at Blair's antics.

"Guys."

"We're sorry, you're right." I admitted, "You do have to kick her ass because those eight extracurriculars, two of which she started, and that four point one-two gpa will kick your ass."

"Christina." Blair cries out, throwing her face in her hands.

Serena gave me a stern look, "What I'm telling her the truth." Serena put her hand on Blair's shoulder to comfort her. " Look, I've been competing with Nelly Yuki for the last three years for the number one spot in our class and we're still tied. So if she wants that one Yale spot, she must destroy Nelly Yuki."