I Dragged Him To The Exam And He Destroyed My Future For Her Chapter 08

I Dragged Him To The Exam And He Destroyed My Future For Her Chapter 08

The Academic Integrity Board finished its review quickly, just three days.

**Conclusion:** Ms. Holloway’s paper contains authentic and valid data.
The complaint is unfounded.

At the same time, the board forwarded my “evidence of retaliatory complaint” to the university’s internal review office and to Lakehurst State College.

The day of my Ph.D. program admission interview, the five professors on my panel all looked satisfied after my presentation.

“Ms. Holloway, you’ve passed. Have you confirmed your focus area for the direct-entry Ph.D. program?”

“Yes. Computational mathematics, with Professor Griffin’s group.”

“Excellent. Congratulations.”

I nodded and stepped down from the podium.

As I exited the interview room, my phone started vibrating.

“Megan?” A female voice, thick with tears, now blazing with fury. “Did you send that complaint to my school?”

“What complaint?” My voice was calm.

“Don’t play dumb! My advisor called me in. Someone filed a complaint about me harassing you online for years. They said they’re sending it to the disciplinary committee. They might expel me.”

“That’s what happens when you do those things.”

“Megan, you’re so cruel!” Her voice turned shrill. “This was your plan all along, wasn’t it? You never responded. You let me keep posting. Just so you could collect evidence!”

I didn’t say anything.

“You’ve been scheming against me since high school! You left early on exam day on purpose! You were just jealous of my relationship with Chad!”

“Skylar.” I cut her off.

“On exam day, Chad blocked the bus door waiting for you. That’s why the whole bus was late. I didn’t cause that.”

“You were twenty-five minutes late. You and Chad together ruined forty people’s futures. From start to finish, you were the perpetrator, not the victim.”

The line went silent.

Then Skylar’s voice changed, pleading now. “Megan, we were high school classmates. Can’t you cut me some slack? If I get expelled, my life is over.”

“When you filed that complaint about my paper, did you think about whether my life would be over?”

“Chad told me to do it! He said your paper had problems. He gave me the data and told me to file the complaint. I was just doing what he said!”

I laughed.

The moment they face consequences, they turn on each other.

“Tell your disciplinary committee that. Say Chad told you to.”

“You…”

“I have proof that Chad directed you, and I have proof that you acted on your own. You can tell them whatever story you want, the evidence won’t change.”

I hung up.

Less than two hours later, Chad called.

I didn’t pick up.

He messaged me on Instagram: [Megan, let’s talk.]

I didn’t reply.

[Skylar said you sent evidence to her school. How far are you going to take this?]

[I know I was wrong about some things. But ruining her whole life?]

[You got your Ph.D. admission. Your paper’s fine. You won. Can’t you just let this go?]

I read each message.

Then I replied one last time: [You’ve been harassing me for years. Did you ever let me go?]

Then I blocked Chad on every platform.

One week later, Lakehurst State College announced its decision.

Skylar was expelled for maliciously filing a false academic misconduct complaint and engaging in long-term online harassment and defamation, in serious violation of the student code of conduct.

Charlotte texted me the moment she saw the news.

“Megan. Does it feel good?”

I thought about it. “Kind of, I guess.”

“You’re so boring.” Charlotte rolled her eyes.

I laughed and kept flipping through my book.

It didn’t matter if it felt good.

What mattered was that in this life, no one was going to sacrifice my future to pay someone else’s mistakes.

This time, everyone pays for themselves.