And Then There Were Five

Introduction

College is supposed to be the best years of you life...right?

Six friends that met through their co-ed dorm freshman year at Earhart University have another year to get their lives right, which is anything these students could ever hope for.

Wiley has always felt mediocre since he went from high school hero to college zero. When his plans to transfer to Duke for basketball don't come to be, his vision for what his future is supposed to look like seems foggier than ever.

Kamya has always been a talented artist, but the canvas she truly wants to work with is skin, aspiring to become a professional makeup artist. Still, no makeup can change the fact that she is one of the very few Indian students amongst a predominantly white student body.

Archer had only first set foot in America last year as a new international student with dreams of becoming a famous poet. Seeing that spending his time in the library all of freshman year got him nowhere, he decides to live a life worth writing about--no matter what that may look like.

Valencia grew up with strict orders from her mother, and after deciding not to rush as a legacy to her mother's multicultural sorority she goes through Panhellinic Recruitment and pledges herself away from her mother's wishes, entering into a whole new world of Greek letters, party culture, and financial jeopardy.

Jagger doesn't want to be a college dropout. After watching his high school friends be admitted into bigger and better schools didn't exactly motivate him to do well this far, and the only thing he has any drive for now is music. He needs an intervention, and he needs it soon.

And lastly, there's Elinor. Her test scores were good enough to get her into her dream school, but her mother's declining health and medical bills left her no choice but to attend Earhart--affordable and close enough to home for her to continue acting a her caretaker. But she's been weighing in all of her sacrifices lately, and the urge to be selfish may drive her to a breaking point.

Everything seems fine in the beginning of the first semester, but by finals week of spring semester, only five of the six friends remain. What happened to their friend? Worse, who is to blame?