The Enemy Within — The Tragedy of Ethan Blake

After our SAT scores came out, both of my childhood best friends scored over 1400. The three of us had always planned to apply to Harvard together, but behind my back they'd made other plans. They threw away their shot at Harvard just to go to community college. All because of Ethan Blake, the poorest kid in our class, who'd barely scored a

Why waste four years at Harvard trying to out-nerd a bunch of nerds? At community college, girls like you would be queen bees. Everyone would know your names. Honestly, yeah.

But what about Ryan? If he finds out, he'll go straight to our parents. I stopped dead outside the locker room. I tried over and over to talk some sense into them before they threw their futures

But they wouldn't listen. Cut the crap, Ryan. You're only doing this because we chose Ethan over you. So I told their parents.

They took away their phones and grounded them until their Harvard offers came in. But by then, it was too late. Ethan couldn't reach either of them. He thought they'd abandoned him.

A few days later, he jumped from the school roof.