Jake's POV
That stupid night, halfway through studying, when she laughed and said, "I’ll just draw a cow for the questions I don’t like. That way I pass but not too well. If I do too well, you know how mom and the teachers will start—’Go to college! Be a lawyer! Change the world!’ I just want to pass and breathe. Everyone will expect me to go to college. I just wanna pass enough, but not be valedictorian, you know?"
I thought she was joking. Just Victoria being Victoria. Lazy, dramatic, maybe trying to get out of studying early.
But now? Now I wasn’t so sure.
Maybe she actually did it.
Maybe she chose to tank parts of the exam. Self-sabotaged to keep expectations low. I mean... who does that?
Victoria. That’s who.
I hoped she was joking. But now? I’m not so sure.
Did she actually
