My Childhood Friend Spoiled My Admission Dream Chapter 07

My Childhood Friend Spoiled My Admission Dream Chapter 07

“Caleb, it’s okay… didn’t you say you could always take a gap year and reapply?” 

Vivian still hadn’t realized how fatal those words were. 

She clung to Caleb’s hand, crying so hard her makeup 

smeared. 

“You said I just made a mistake. Why couldn’t you be understanding? Didn’t you say if it happened to you, 

you wouldn’t blame me?” 

Caleb suddenly shoved her away. 

Vivian stumbled, nearly falling, but still tried to move 

closer to him. 

“Caleb, we can still go to Riverstate together. I’ll stay 

with you.” 

Caleb raised his hand. 

Slap. 

The sound exploded through the microphone. 

Vivian covered her face in disbelief. “You hit me?” 

Caleb’s eyes were bloodshot. “You ruined me.” 

“Vivian Hart, you ruined my entire future.” 

Vivian cried even harder. “I didn’t know it was your 

account! If I knew, why would I have changed yours?” 

“I just wanted to teach Audrey Sinclair a lesson. Why 

does she get everything? Why have you always revolved 

around her since childhood?” 

Pain twisted across Caleb’s face. “So you did it on 

purpose?” 

Vivian shook her head frantically. “Not on purpose to ruin you.” 

“I did it on purpose to ruin her.” 

The auditorium completely exploded. 

Derek rushed onto the stage, shaking with fury. 

“Vivian, do you even understand how serious 

tampering with applications is?” 

“It’s illegal, and you’re still sitting here crying?” 

Vivian immediately dropped to her knees and grabbed 

at his pant leg. 

“Mr. Bennett, my family’s really poor. I can’t go to jail. What about my little brother?” 

“I’m not a bad person. I was just scared to go to that 

kind of school alone.” 

Derek violently shook her off. 

“So because you were scared, you thought you could destroy someone else’s life?” 

Then he turned toward Caleb. The disappointment in 

his eyes was so heavy it looked like he could barely stay 

standing. 

“And you.” 

“What did you say in the group chat yesterday?” 

“You told Audrey to be understanding. Told her to take 

a gap year. Told her not to make a big deal out of it.” 

Caleb lowered his head without saying a word. 

Derek suddenly slapped him hard across the face. 

“I taught you for three years, and this is what you turned into?” 

“You joined forces to slander her, saying she threw 

away her future for some delinquent.” 

“Now the truth’s right in front of everyone. How do you 

still have the nerve to stand on this stage?” 

Caleb’s head tilted from the force of the slap. 

Slowly, he looked at me. “Audrey… I was wrong.” 

“Please help me.” 

Hearing those words didn’t feel satisfying. 

It just felt ridiculous. 

“How exactly am I supposed to help you?” 

Caleb hurried after me. “Your family has connections. 

Please, ask your parents to contact Harvard’s admissions office and explain that someone tampered with my application. This wasn’t my fault.” 

His voice turned desperate. “I’m supposed to go to 

Harvard. I was always supposed to go there.” 

I looked at him calmly. 

“If the applications that got tampered with had really been mine, would you have helped me contact 

admissions?” 

“Would you have believed me?” 

“Would you have made Vivian take responsibility?” 

His lips turned pale. “That’s different.” 

“How?” 

His voice dropped so low it was almost inaudible. “I’m 

a guy.” 

“I can’t afford to have my future ruined.” 

That sentence made everything clearer than all his 

previous favoritism combined. 

Someone in the audience cursed loudly. “What a piece 

of trash.” 

Vivian suddenly screamed. “What right do you have to 

blame me?!” 

She pointed at Caleb hysterically. 

“Last night, who was the one saying Audrey’s rich and could just study abroad?” 

“Who said going to Riverstate would just be ‘a novel life experience‘ for her?” 

“You didn’t care because you thought the ruined future 

belonged to her instead of you!” 

Caleb spun around furiously. “Shut up.” 

Vivian completely snapped. “No! I won’t!” 

“If you really cared about justice, why didn’t you call 

the police last night?” 

“You protected me because you felt sorry for me!” 

Caleb lunged at her like he wanted to hit her again, but 

security guards rushed forward and stopped him. 

His voice cracked apart in front of the entire 

auditorium. 

“I felt sorry for you?” 

“You manipulated me!” 

“You kept crying about being poor and miserable. You kept saying Audrey looked down on you.” 

“You used me like a weapon and hacked my future to 

pieces!” 

Vivian shouted back through tears. “And you let me!” 

“If you’d trusted Audrey even once, would any of this 

have worked?!” 

Caleb froze completely. 

The entire auditorium had descended into chaos. 

I walked to the front of the stage, bent down, and 

picked up the Riverstate Technical College acceptance 

letter, then I handed it back to him. 

“Caleb, I remember every word you said last night very 

clearly.” 

He looked up at me with dark eyes. 

I placed the letter into his trembling hands. 

“Enjoy your little romance with Vivian at Riverstate.” 

His fingers shook violently. 

The acceptance letter slipped from his hand and fell to 

the floor. 

Then Caleb dropped to his knees. He raised his hand 

and slapped himself hard across the face. 

“Audrey… I am truly sorry.”