The Gold Standard
Language: en
My name was written into the blind box dating game played by the rich boys at my school. A week later, Julian Thorne, the top student of our grade, stepped down from his pedestal. He told me he liked me. Flattered and overwhelmed, I agreed and became his girlfriend. For an entire semester, he granted my every wish, spoiling me to the extreme. Everyone envied my good fortune for plucking this flower from the high peak. Until the eve of the college entrance exam, when he abruptly broke up with me. I knew they wanted to see me act like the girls before me—suicidal, heartbroken,…