Jake's POV
That was a lie. One point is a big deal. Especially for an elite school like Godolken. But I didn’t want her freaking out. Not now. She got in. That was what mattered, right?
Told her maybe the university had checked her previous academic history—maybe her grades in the past years balanced things out. I lied. A little. I said maybe they saw potential and made an exception. That kind of thing.
But one point? One point is a lot when it comes to college admissions.
Still... she got in, right?
So I told her it didn’t matter. That it was just luck. A good kind of luck. That it didn’t need to make perfect sense because what mattered was that we were going to the same university. We were going to finally meet in person, not just over video calls or texts or study groups. We made
