Chapter 5

After saying that, to prevent myself from hesitating again, I opened my laptop in front of Sarah.

Without any hesitation, just before the deadline, I changed my Early Decision application through the Common App from New York University to the University of Florida.

Sarah was so happy she almost jumped up.

She had been trying to persuade me to apply to the same university for a long time.

But in our sophomore year of high school, Jacob and I had made a promise to work hard together and go to his dream school in New York after graduation.

That's where his dream sports management program was.

So even though I was actually more drawn to the warm sunshine of California and didn't particularly care for the hustle and bustle of New York, for three years of high school, I had always treated NYU as my only goal.

After years of being neighbors, both sets of parents were happy for us to attend the same university.

Everyone, including myself, thought that Jacob and I would naturally become a couple after we became adults.

But now, I couldn't find any reason to go to New York anymore.

Or rather, after today, if I were to follow Jacob around like before,

I would look down on myself.

Now I just wanted to hide far away. It didn't matter where, as long as Jacob wasn't there.

If he was on the East Coast, then I would go to the southernmost point.