Part 2Graduation trip

He did well on his SATs, but not quite well enough for the top-tier schools. He just assumed I’d do what I’d always done: stick to our plan and go to the state university with him.

He didn’t know I’d already accepted an offer from Georgetown, a thousand miles away.

Honestly, giving up that magnet school for him was one of the biggest regrets of my life. After being left behind so many times over the past two years, I wasn’t that same girl who put Ryan before everything else.

I was originally going to use this trip to tell him. To tell him that I was going to DC for college.

But he ditched me first. For Winnie.

It was Ryan who broke our promise first.