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“Takes one to know one”

“And what about your grades, Olivia?”

I dragged h rades are fine” Organic cheh it with an A minus

“Are you retaking the MCAT?”

“I scored in the ninety-second percentile”

“There’s always rooot a semester left before applications are due”

I gritted my teeth That ninety-second percentile had taken an entire su There had been days on end I hadn’t left my apartment My neck had had a kink in it for weeks, and my shoulders had been like stone After that I’d picked upkeeping me sane

“How could I forget? You started this med school application countdohen I was thirteen” Medical school was the end gaoal that had been set out for me from the day I’d told my parents I wanted to becoa part of the

“It’s what you’ve alanted I’ sure you don’t miss out on your dream” His voice wove his expectations into every word

For a while he’d pulled back and see so ith Felicity and he was so happy, really happy for the first ti for her, I couldn’t wait to have a big sister of sorts She’d takenof the school year I hadn’t really needed anything, but I’d wanted to get to know the woman my brother wanted to marry I was the only one who’d met her and Colm had sworn me to secrecy, so I’d felt like he finally trustedimportant

Yeah, I was a little starved for faone He even went into my phone and erased her nuone, and no one even talked about her She’d been deleted completely

I’d al off on med school for a bit, but then his post-Felicity spiral had begun I’d tried to get him to open up to ain That had shut me up for sure Then his focus had shifted back toto that dreahtly and I hadn’t wanted to kill it for him, so plans had moved ahead as normal

He was all I had left “How long are you gone for?”

“Aas hell The tea with me, so it won’t be all bad”

Bleh Eloise was his new girlfriend with the perpetual duck lips They’d all been like that since Felicity Well, even she’d done her Daisy Duck impersonation on occasion