I smiled. “We’ll see about that.”The second practice SAT came as scheduled. I scored 1550, and, just as expected, Vivian scored 1560, a little higher than me.It was the first time since entering our senior year that I hadn’t taken the top spot in the grade.The students swarming around the bulletin board went wild.“Oh my god, Vivian really wasn’t lying. She’s a genius! She passed Natalie without even trying!”Vivian stood in the center of the crowd, basking in their admiration, and envy.“I’ve said it before,” she announced proudly. “I held back before, but with the SAT coming up, of course I had to give it my all!”Meanwhile, I sat at my desk, calmly analyzing the situation.The system she was bound to always pushed her score a little higher than mine.Then an idea hit me: what if I didn’t take the exam?To test it, during the third practice, I pretended to be sick and went to the infirmary, skipping the test entirely.Sure enough, when the results came out, Vivian’s score stayed i
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