He Erased My Dream School For Her, I Already Had A Better One Chapter 08

He Erased My Dream School For Her, I Alraedy Had A Better One Chapter 08

Six months later, I ran into one of my old high school 

classmates at an international academic conference in London. 

During our conversation, I learned that Grant and Nora had 

both left Summit Tech a month earlier. 

Grant had enrolled at Summit Tech without a problem. 

Not long after classes began, however, the university 

conducted a final verification review of the invention project 

that had helped secure his merit admission. 

For the patent at the heart of that project, Grant was 

required to submit the complete original experimental data, 

calculations, and development records. 

It was part of the school’s process for verifying the 

authenticity of the work. 

But Grant couldn’t produce them. 

He couldn’t even reconstruct the process himself from scratch. 

The university immediately suspended him pending an 

academic–integrity review and gave him six months to 

produce the missing original records. 

If he failed to do so by the deadline, his enrollment would be revoked. 

For the next six months, Grant worked day and night. 

the patented results. 

Other people might not have understood why. 

I did. 

Back in high school, all our invention projects and patent 

had officially been presented as joint work between Grant 

and me. 

But from start to finish, I had led the core design, the 

experimental work, and the data collection. 

Grant had only ever assisted me. 

He had never had the patience to truly understand the logic 

or algorithms behind the work. 

By the end of those six months, his experiments still hadn’t 

gone anywhere. 

The crushing academic pressure and mounting scrutiny 

finally broke him. 

In the end, overwhelmed by it all, Grant formally submitted a 

request to withdraw. 

His plan was to leave Summit Tech, spend a year rebuilding 

his application, and apply to college again the following cycle. 

Nora’s time there hadn’t gone much better, 

Not long after starting at Summit Tech, she began repeatedly 

claiming she was sick to avoid the school’s longstanding 

fitness requirement. 

Before long, she was faking illness almost every day and 

constantly missing class. 

The university met with her several times, issued warnings, 

and gave her chances to make up missed exams. 

She wasted every one of them 

Eventually, after repeated attendance violations and failing 

grades, she was required to withdraw. 

My old classmate sighed, then began recounting Nora’s past. 

Nora’s family had once been so poor that she was on the 

verge of dropping out of school. 

Desperate for any chance to continue her education, she had 

started messaging strangers one by one on social media, 

asking whether anyone would be willing to help her stay in school. 

I happened to see one of those messages and reached out to her myself. 

I regularly sent her money for living expenses and bought her 

clothes and everyday necessities. 

Later, I asked my parents to sponsor her long–term through 

their company’s charitable program. 

We even helped her leave the isolated mountain community 

where she had spent her entire childhood and enroll at 

Bayview Preparatory Academy for her junior year. 

Even after everything she had done to hurt me, some part of 

me had never forgotten the compassion I felt for her in the beginning. 

would always remember the first time I brought her into the city. 

She had stood on a busy street, staring at a world she had 

never seen before. 

Her eyes had shone with wonder, full of the purest hope for the future. 

When I first started supporting her, I had only one hope. 

“I’m helping you stay in school. I don’t expect anything in return.” 

I only hope that once you’ve built a future for yourself, you’ll 

help girls from backgrounds like yours who are struggling 

whenever you’re able.” 

I had wanted her to escape hardship without forgetting 

where she came from and keep growing toward something better. 

But people change. 

Growing up with so little had done nothing to temper her greed. 

The good fortune that came too easily had warped what was 

once sincere in her. 

She had lost every trace of the innocence she once had.