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Where My Road Begins Chapter 10
The day I got to Pacific Harbor, the sky was clear.Sunlight came down through the gaps in the clouds and lay across the stone paths of the Seabriar campus like broken gold.I stood at the main gate with my suitcase.Then I looked up.The sky was blue.Clean, endless blue.My phone had buzzed the entire way there.Mom called.Dylan called.Colin called.Even Molly tried a few times.I didn't answer any of them.By the third day, the calls were thinning out.By the fifteenth, my phone was silent.Pacific Harbor's scholarship was generous.Generous enough to cover tuition and everything I needed to live on.I didn't need shifts at the Silverline anymore.I didn't need to bend over a table in a uniform, selling bottles.I didn't need to stand outside a private room counting my hourly wage down to closing.My first-year schedule was brutal.I was up at seven every morning.Most nights I got back to my dorm at eleven.I was worn out, and I was happier than I'd been in
Where My Road Begins Chapter 9
"Audrey!"Audrey, listen to me."I know I got it wrong. I know that now."Don't stop wanting me. Please."She got hold of my sleeve.I pried her fingers off it one at a time."Mom. When you were setting my alarm back, did you think about me even once?"Dylan rushed over and pulled me into his arms."Audrey, this is on me."I played favorites and I was an idiot. She had me for eight years."Don't go. I'll buy you a place. That neighborhood you always liked."Pick any school you want. I'll cover all of it.""Enough."I pushed his arm off."For years you told me that if I bombed, you'd take care of me."Then you turned around and spent every dollar meant for me keeping Molly happy."I had to work nights to afford a practice workbook."You'd take care of me."When did you ever do it?"Dylan's mouth opened, but nothing came out.Colin pushed through behind him.He was holding a small box.Inside it was the Northstar pin. The one I'd given Molly."Audrey, take it back.
Where My Road Begins Chapter 8
"Molly. Was the illness fake?"Molly shook her head hard. "No. Mom, she's setting me up."She rushed over and grabbed Mom's hand."That recording's fake. She spliced it together. She hates me, that's all this is."Mom, believe me.""Then get evaluated."I said it flatly. "Right now. Any licensed hospital. Psychology, psychiatry, whichever department is appropriate."If a real clinician finds a real condition, I'll take the year off with you.""I'm not going."Dylan frowned."Why not?"Prove you're sick and Audrey has to stay."Colin was watching her closely. "Molly, you won't go because...?"He stopped, then finished it. "Because you made all of it up?"Molly opened her mouth. Her eyes went from Mom's bloodless face to Dylan's locked jaw to the doubt sitting in Colin's eyes.Somewhere in the crowd, somebody snorted."What's left to discuss?""Obviously it was fake.""She ran her whole family for years.""And they let a teenager play them like that.""Eight years the
Where My Road Begins Chapter 7
"No."I didn't take a second to think about it."What did you say?""Say that again.""I said no."Mom's eyes were red when she turned on me."Are you determined to push your sister off a roof?"Audrey Rose Sutton, do you have a heart at all?"She's talking about jumping and you're still saying no."Do you want her dead?"Colin came over and put a hand on my shoulder, patting it."Audrey, that's enough."You said you didn't want Northstar just now, and I get it. You think we favor Molly."I know you're hurt."But you've got the biggest heart of anyone. Just take the year with her. Please."His fingers slid down my arm, reaching for my hand.I knocked them away."I said no."Somewhere in the crowd, somebody said it out loud."Is this family sick?""The older one wins a national math gold and shows up to her own family's party in a server's uniform?""The younger one scores zero, wears a million in jewelry, and they want the older one to lose a year for her?""You c
Where My Road Begins Chapter 6
Mom jabbed a finger at the zero beside my name."Audrey Sutton scored zero. How can you possibly want her?"And if a blank sheet gets her in, then why not Molly?"The directors looked back at her, no longer bothering to hide what they thought.By then they'd worked out the shape of this family.Molly was the treasure. Audrey Sutton was furniture.The Northstar director's jaw tightened. "Mrs. Sutton, the instruction was very clear. We came for Audrey Sutton."Is she here? We need to speak with her directly."We'd like to speak with her now."I let one corner of my mouth go up and stepped out of the corner."That's me. I'm Audrey Sutton."I walked toward the three of them.The moment they saw me, the tension went out of their faces.They were across the floor before I finished saying it.The Northstar director got to me first and took my hand."You're Audrey. Thank God."Our president confirmed it just now. You took the gold medal at this year's National Mathematics Olymp
Where My Road Begins Chapter 5
"Zero?""Is this a joke?""Didn't they just say Molly Sutton was the top scorer in the country?"The room came apart into whispers.Mom stared at the screen, her voice shaking."No. That can't be right."How can Molly have a zero too?"Dylan started to panic with her."Right, exactly, two zeros is impossible. The portal's broken."Three admissions directors flew out here. They came for a top scorer."Molly, don't be scared. That number's wrong. It has to be wrong."He pulled her against him and patted her back.I stayed against the wall in my corner and watched.Then I smiled.They didn't know that the day Molly got her manufactured diagnosis, something attached itself to me.It called itself the Score Exchange System.From that day on, every formal exam result of ours got swapped.Every time Mom and the others found a new way to keep me from doing well, I gritted my teeth and finished the paper anyway.What they never realized was that I was getting better with every
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