The 1600 Deception
Language: en
One month before the SATs, I started seeing my score floating above my head. It was a curse. Every time I completed a practice test, the number dropped by ten points. But for every day I skipped school to party, it went up by ten. I spent an entire month partying. The number above my head climbed to a perfect 1600. But when the actual results came out, I scored a 400. The 1600? That was my younger brother’s score. My parents, furious and humiliated, disowned me and kicked me out to work in a factory. That same night, I was cornered in a dark alley by a group of thugs and beaten to…