“By then, my parents won’t have a choice but to accept us. I’ll be a lawyer, he’ll have a good job, and we’ll save up to buy a big house. We’ll be happy together forever.”
I had my earbuds in, only half-listening to her go on, while my mind wandered.
Would they really be happy? I didn’t know. All I knew was that in the last life, less than a week after they broke up, Howard was already seeing someone new.
He even managed to clean out Julia’s savings before he left. It was only because we, her roommates, chipped in some money that she didn’t end up in one of those shady clinics for an abortion.
When I first heard about Howard’s new girlfriend, I shared the gossip with her. She didn’t say a word, just quietly pulled out her bar exam prep videos.
She became withdrawn after that, throwing herself into her studies. I thought she was just focusing on her future, but now I realize that’s when she started to resent me.
She studied law and passed the certificate, all so she could better game the system.