Our Story Ends on the Hundredth Page
Brianna watched me standing up there looking like a muse, and strangely, the jealousy she'd been carrying started to dissolve, little by little.
Before, she'd been jealous and defiant because she always believed she could catch up, always told herself that studying biology was so much more prestigious than playing music.
But now a voice inside her was saying she never would. No, it wasn't that she couldn't catch up. She never had, not once.
In school, she only seemed to outperform me because I was on the arts track, where the academic bar was naturally lower. In the working world, there was no comparison at all. Three hours of performing earned me a five-figure fee, which was more than she m