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On the day Taylor's Columbia acceptance arrives, she secretly flies to New York to surprise her boyfriend Ethan and best friend Lexi. Instead, she overhears them confess: to grant Lexi's birthday wish, they secretly altered Taylor's application, making her miss the deadline and lose her spot. They've been dating behind her back for a year. Ethan promises Lexi he'll stay hers until fall, then return to being Taylor's boyfriend. Taylor stands outside, holding cupcakes and sunflowers, realizing her entire life was built on their betrayal. #revenge #betrayal #fyp
#cheatingboyfriend #secondchance
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00:00columbia acceptance letter alive i kept it a secret from everyone flew to new york to surprise
00:04my boyfriend ethan and my best friend lexi instead i overheard them confess it themselves
00:08to keep dating behind my back they'd altered my application costing me an entire gap year
00:13ethan once taylor gets here can we really still be this close i wish she'd never gotten to columbia
00:20don't say that last year to make your birthday wish come true with the one where you wanted to
00:24date me we snuck into her college application portal and clicked decline offer before decision
00:28day made her miss the deadline she had to take a whole gap year because of us we've been dating
00:34here in new york behind her back this entire time that's already bad enough when she moves to the
00:37city i'll go back to being her boyfriend obviously so we can still keep meeting like this in secret
00:45as long as taylor doesn't find out right then i was standing there a complete joke ethan kept going
00:50comforting her i promised you a full year as your guy not one day less your birthday wish
00:55kicked in may 1st last year it runs through may 1st this year i'll give you an extra three months
00:59on top of that i'm yours until the fall semester starts i already told taylor i'm staying in new
01:04york this summer to do pre-med clinical volunteering at mount simi not going home we'll stay in the city
01:09together whatever you want to do i'm there
01:18i thought back to last may first that was lexi's birthday it was also the day i found out i
01:22was
01:23locked out of my dream school for good i'd stared at my student portal showing offer declined and
01:27couldn't believe my sat scores and gpa were the highest out of the three of us both of them had
01:30gotten into columbia without a problem only me somehow impossibly had lost my spot my parents
01:35panicked and called the admissions office that's when we found out someone had used my account to
01:40click decline and cancel the deposit before the deadline how is that even possible the admissions
01:44rep sounded genuinely sorry your record is outstanding if we'd received the confirmation
01:49you absolutely would have been on the fall roster but what the system shows us is what it shows us
01:54there's nothing we can do on our end is it possible a wrong option was selected during
01:57confirmation i was devastated i couldn't accept it and right then lexi facetimed me taylor my birthday
02:03party's starting get over here ethan's already here we're just waiting on you i told them what
02:07happened lexi went into overdrive trying to make me feel better oh my god how does that even happen
02:13these things happen to everyone sometimes so what are you gonna do now if all else fails pick up some
02:17credits at community college and transfer next year i looked at my parents worried faces i thought about
02:22four years of work no i'm taking a gap year and reapplying there was a beat of silence on the
02:27call
02:27then ethan's voice with your record community college would be a waste of your time focus on
02:32reapplying lexi and i will be waiting for you at columbia ethan's right then my birthday wish
02:37this year is for our taylor to get her columbia offer next year no problem back then i was so
02:41touched i almost couldn't speak it turns out every bit of it was something they'd planned together
02:46all of it just to hide what they were doing i knew lexi had a boyfriend once she got to
02:50new york
02:50that part didn't surprise me what i didn't know was that her boyfriend and my boyfriend were the same
02:55person she texted me constantly every day sharing little updates about this amazing guy she was
03:00seeing i was home grinding through essays and ap coursework every weekend i'd unlock my phone to
03:04a wall of unread messages from her my boyfriend sat in on my sociology lecture today
03:12the professor called on him randomly and he completely blanked i'm dead he'd been eyeing
03:18this vintage turntable for a while so drum roll i bought it for him we got a hotel room last
03:24night
03:24he's so hot
03:27hey taylor have you and ethan ever actually done it
03:30no ethan and i had made it official on prom night after that it was straight into the chaos
03:37of application season there wasn't exactly a lot of time for anything else and then the whole mess
03:41with my acceptance happened and that killed whatever mood was left when lexi heard ethan and
03:45i hadn't gone all the way she sent back a voice note that was practically a performance no no way
03:56taylor don't you know if a guy doesn't even want to sleep with you he's not actually into you oops
04:01did i say something wrong i swear i'm not trying to start anything looking back every single one of
04:07those messages was loaded i was too stressed out from applications to catch it at the time
04:11i just changed the subject anyway you move fast you got a boyfriend your first week of school at some
04:17party what does he look like send a pic let me see if he's good enough for you one word
04:22hot how hot
04:24hot enough that the second you saw his face you'd pass out on the spot but he hates photos so
04:29no
04:29pics for you and now standing outside the apartment watching the two of them together i genuinely felt a
04:34little dizzy what are you up to at the hospital doing shadowing completely slammed i held down
04:41the nausea and replied take a pic of the hospital and send it to me again why does she keep
04:48bothering
04:48you she's taking up time that's supposed to be mine she said it like she was the real girlfriend
04:52like i was some unhinged stalker good thing i'm careful i got photos of a hospital hallway from an
04:58upperclassmen ahead of time covers lexi still wasn't happy she pushed a little further you're that scared
05:02of her finding out you could just tell her about us if she really cares about you really thinks of
05:08me as her best friend how could she even be mad don't whatever's going on between us she cannot find
05:12out ever lexi read his face and switched gears fast okay okay forget it don't go back to the dorms
05:18tonight let's do something fun that desperate
05:27i'll take care of it tonight er is slammed hospital has strict hipaa requirements phone access is
05:33limited until this is over don't worry love you i read every word then i texted my parents mom dad
05:39i'm
05:39not going to columbia i'm accepting mit's offer they called immediately sweetie what happened what
05:46changed you've been talking about columbia for a year being in new york with lexi and ethan lexi and ethan
05:51are together my mom pulled a sharp breath on the other end what but at prom last year ethan was
05:56she stopped herself like she just figured something out didn't finish the sentence i was the one
06:00reassuring them my application this year was stronger i got into mit physics at mit is better
06:05than columbia by a long shot anyway i was willing to go to new york because i had people there
06:10turns
06:10out those two aren't worth giving up the top engineering school in the country i'll talk later i
06:15need to book a flight home tonight i want your barbecue my dad's voice came through anger barely under
06:19control we were all fooled lexi's private high school tuition her college tuition right now your
06:25mother and i have been paying all of it if this is how she's going to treat you we are
06:28done being her
06:29atm next semester done okay lexi and i had grown up together she came from a broken home ninth grade
06:35her parents divorced and moved to separate states left her behind no plan for her education nothing i was
06:40the one who begged my parents to step in mom dad can we please help her she doesn't even have
06:45money to
06:45finish high school just think of it as charity when we're in college we'll get jobs and pay you back
06:49my parents didn't even hesitate they said yes paid her private high school tuition let her move into
06:54the guest room covered columbia's eighty something thousand a year in tuition and housing without
06:58blinking taylor i will never forget what your family has done for me when i graduate and land something
07:02on wall street i'll pay back every cent with interest turns out this was her version of paying it back
07:09i turned around and called an uber to jfk airport
07:18boyfriend booked the room two thousand dollars a night he wants me to put in the effort tonight
07:22what do you think i should do for him i thought back to a night three months before the application
07:25deadline i was barely holding it together i called ethan taylor can you come home this weekend just
07:32once i really need you he said no without missing a beat taylor i genuinely can't afford the train
07:37ticket right now you haven't been here yet you don't know how expensive new york is there's always
07:40something to spend money on my coursework is brutal i can't carve out the time can you try to be
07:45a
07:45little more mature about this couldn't scrape together a forty dollar train fare but a two
07:51thousand dollar hotel suite no problem brutal coursework sure racing to spend every available
07:56minute with my best friend bff jealous i bet you've never stayed in a plaza suite when you move to
08:02new
08:02york i'll have my boyfriend book you your own room for a night just you all to yourself
08:09reading her smug little mean girl tone i almost felt sick i didn't reply
08:16lexi didn't hear back from taylor and didn't think much of it she figured taylor was just too
08:21jealous to respond which honestly made sense lexi had spent the last year living her best college
08:27life using taylor's parents card going everywhere with taylor's boyfriend and taylor still home hunched
08:33over essays her main priority now was locking ethan down for good she was dying to rub all of it
08:40in
08:40taylor's face but the timing wasn't right yet for one thing ethan still felt guilty about taylor he'd
08:47been enjoying what she'd essentially handed him but lexi could tell in the back of his mind ethan still
08:53saw taylor as the right kind of girl the one you actually end up with if she pushed him into
08:58a
08:58confrontation with taylor now there was a real chance ethan would panic and drop her to try to
09:02fix things that was not the ending she was going for her plan was to replace taylor in his head
09:07slowly
09:07step by step until ethan was the one who called it that moment hadn't come yet and for another thing
09:12she still needed taylor's parents to cover the rest of her tuition she could not blow this up too early
09:16although ethan's family had money real money once she had him fully tuition would be the least of her
09:21problems she was still running through the fantasy who are you texting nobody ethan for the next two
09:30months can you stop talking to taylor i want you completely to myself volunteer program here is
09:34really demanding there are strict rules around phone use i'll be hard to reach for a while slow to
09:39respond don't worry i'll pick you up from the airport on move-in day you're the best i got that
09:47text
09:47sitting at my kitchen table eating barbecue this little he's still lying to you right now block him
09:53block both of them so disgusting done all blocked those two are never touching my life again time
10:00moved fast before long it was move-in day the last messages were from the day the results came out
10:08him telling her not to contact him over the summer ethan i'm finally coming new york to find you he
10:13told
10:14her not to reach out fine but she'd actually gone the whole summer without sending a single text
10:19still today was the day she was flying in he let it go and started typing babe are you at
10:27the airport
10:28yet i'll come get you he'd been blocked he figured he'd misread it what was going on
10:42he called her straight to voicemail the number you are trying to reach is unavailable
10:51that line too blocked what's wrong ethan ignored her hey my boyfriend got me a necklace today cute
11:02right babe we got a hotel room last night he's so creative have you and ethan even tried anything
11:09yet when you get here i'll have ethan take some notes who told you to send her any of that
11:14did i
11:15not make it clear what we're doing cannot get back to her ever lexi's voice went unsteady i never said
11:23it
11:23was you i never used your name not once i just i couldn't help it i wanted to share share
11:29you shared how
11:30you were sleeping with me to my actual girlfriend lexi are you serious right now
11:37i spoil you too much don't i but ethan had zero interest in that face right now
11:43he looked back at the screen he noticed the conversation had just stopped a few months
11:48back taylor had gone completely wyatt not a single reply after that his heart started hammering
11:53did you two have a falling out why hasn't she responded to you in two months
11:57no we didn't fight she just stopped replying i don't know why maybe she was so happy about her
12:04acceptance she forgot about us ethan stopped listening i'm sorry this number cannot be reached
12:11lexi was blocked too ethan's stomach dropped his mind started running how did this happen did taylor
12:17know about them when did she find out how much did she know no maybe she didn't know anything
12:22maybe she was just furious about him going silent all summer maybe it was just a fight he held on
12:27to
12:27that picked up the landline and dialed a number he'd had memorized for years the line rang
12:37someone picked up my summer had been genuinely great mit enrollment went smoothly i even flew to
12:43hawaii with some friends for a week move-in day my parents helped me carry everything up to my room
12:50i'd barely set foot on campus when my phone rang unknown number new york area code hello who's this
12:57three seconds of silence then ethan's voice pulled a little tight taylor it's me it's move-in day i said
13:04i'd come get you where are you did you make it to campus listening to him still trying to cover
13:09his
13:09tracks i made it but i don't need a ride he was starting to say something else when a volunteer
13:14in
13:14an mit physics hoodie came through with a megaphone welcome to mit physics all incoming students check
13:21in over here the tone on the other end changed completely mit taylor where are you his mind was
13:29blank what what happened what did she say he seemed to come back to himself no time for her he
13:34pulled
13:35on a t-shirt and jeans grabbed his keys and drove to columbia he got to campus and practically ran
13:40into the
13:40admissions welcome center and found an excuse to look at the new student roster nothing no taylor
13:45sullivan not anywhere on the list ethan what is going on she didn't come to columbia she went to mit
13:51what how could she just do that if it were me even if i got into mit i'd stay in
13:59new york for you
14:00but since she's not coming does that mean we can finally make this official
14:07where are you going mit ethan
14:13lexi we're done you better pray she doesn't know about us because if she does i will not let that
14:19go
14:20he called a car straight to la guardia and bought the next flight to boston he called taylor the whole
14:28time he waited at the gate every single call went to voicemail the plane landed at logan around 10 at
14:34night he rented a car at the airport and drove hard to cambridge with the gps going by 11 he
14:39was
14:39standing outside the mit dorms no key card no way in by the time they let him go he was
14:45almost out of
14:54options
14:54dear lexi brooks your tuition payment authorization has been revoked your fall semester balance was
14:59not collected failure to pay promptly will result in a registration hold being placed on your account
15:03and your removal from fall semester courses i stepped out of the uber and spotted him immediately
15:10ethan taylor ooh and who is this i answered before he could someone i knew in high school
15:18not really close my roommates clearly read the room they headed upstairs and left us to it
15:23why'd you tell them we're not close i'm your boyfriend and why mit you said columbia
15:30i waited for you in new york for a whole year i tilted my head found the whole thing almost
15:35funny
15:35he waited for me that's hilarious ethan i've known about you and lexi for a while
15:44so what exactly are you doing here
15:48when did you find out the day the results came in
15:52i kept my voice level looking straight at him
15:55i flew to new york to surprise you both
15:59i was standing outside the apartment
16:03i heard everything ethan you seemed like you were having a pretty good time this past year while
16:09i was gone he opened his mouth his voice shook taylor let me explain explain what
16:17explain how you were texting me love you while rolling around in bed with her i looked directly
16:21at him or explain how the two of you hacked into my application portal to decline my columbia offer
16:27so she could have her little birthday wish so i'd be stuck taking a gap year whatever small hope
16:32he'd been holding on to collapsed on the drive over part of him had still told himself she was just
16:37upset just being dramatic but she knew all of it there was no angle left to work taylor i
16:42his voice came out raw lexi and i i just felt bad for her i you felt bad for her
16:52so you took your charity all the way to her bed i'm so sorry but it was only supposed to
16:58be a year
16:59just one year it was just me feeling sorry for her giving her that one birthday thing taylor i swear
17:06you're the only person i've ever actually loved stop ethan i'm not interested in any of that
17:11i have one question last year my columbia acceptance was it you and lexi who got into
17:17my account and changed it yes but i only did it because i was scared you'd fall apart if you
17:22knew
17:22about me and lexi and i knew with your ability one gap year would just mean an even better school
17:28that's all i needed ethan we're done completely you just admitted to hacking into my application
17:34account on may 1st last year did you if yes get off mit's campus i had what i needed
17:41i stopped looking at him swiped my key card and walked into the building my phone rang
17:46new york number i had a pretty good idea i picked up hello taylor sullivan lexi's voice came through
17:54the speaker like a fire alarm why did your parents cancel my bank authorization i have nothing in my
18:01account the bursar's office just emailed me a warning they said if i don't pay they're putting
18:06a registration hold on me and dropping me from all my classes i kept my voice flat and and help
18:12me pay it she sounded completely serious your parents have always covered me why are they
18:16backing out now tell them to write a check or wire it over i need it today lexi i stopped
18:21her when you
18:22were sleeping with my boyfriend when the two of you got into my account and messed with my acceptance
18:26did you stop and think about that for even one second every dollar you spent in new york came from
18:31my
18:31family dead silence on the line then her voice came back different you know i didn't deny it
18:39columbia tuition and is probably not something you'll be needing anymore what do you mean
18:46i didn't answer then i opened my email and sent a message marked urgent to columbia's admissions office
18:53and the office of student conduct subject line short report columbia students ethan hayes and lexi
18:59brooks alleged identity theft and unauthorized computer access in the body i laid out exactly
19:04what happened i attached the screenshot of ethan's text confirming what he'd done i also requested that
19:09the school pull the ip address audit log from my portal around may 1st of last year and i included
19:14the screenshots of lexi's dms the next morning ethan hadn't gone back to new york i have no idea how
19:22he talked his way onto mit's campus taylor your oat milk latte i know we're in different cities now
19:30but i promise i'll fly to boston every single weekend i picked up my bag to leave
19:37can i take you to lunch seafood italian whatever you want ethan you don't need to waste any more time
19:43on me if i were you i'd go back to new york and start figuring out what's left of your
19:47academic career
19:47he didn't catch what i was actually saying just looked at me with that wounded sincere expression
19:51no amount of time is wasted if it means getting you back he had the look of someone being completely
19:55genuine too bad the only thing i felt looking at him now was tired that night ethan found a new
20:00massachusetts number and sent me a very long text taylor i know i was wrong i should never have gotten
20:05involved with lexi i definitely should never have ruined your acceptance but i can't do this without you
20:10do you remember junior year that winter there was a blizzard and the power went out you used your
20:15phone flashlight to light up the ap physics problems and walk me through them i sat there
20:20just watching your face the whole time and during application season every time you broke down crying
20:25from the stress i was the one who'd take you for a drive to clear your head we went through
20:30all of
20:30that together what i feel for you has never been fake lexi was a mistake i lost my mind for
20:35a second and
20:36she got to me everyone makes mistakes can you give me one chance to make it right i didn't have
20:41the patience to finish reading ethan maybe some of what you felt was real but whatever was real in
20:47it got ground down to nothing by the two of and everything you chose to do he kept showing up
20:51over the
20:52next few days hovering following me around like something i couldn't shake i didn't bother pushing
20:57him away because i knew someone was about to handle it for me sure enough it wasn't long before
21:02it happened ethan was trailing along behind me like usual when his phone went off hard buzzing
21:08over and over hello this is ethan what the dean of students wants to see me i'm not in new
21:14york
21:14right now i took time off what do you mean i'm facing serious disciplinary charges and the school
21:18is moving toward a disciplinary hearing okay i'm buying a flight back right now taylor something came
21:24up at my school i have to go back wait for me two days i'll be back and then he
21:29was gone half
21:29running toward the street to catch a car i watched him go take care and please don't come back
21:39taylor sullivan lexi's voice hit like nails on a chalkboard you reported us to the school
21:43are you insane do you know what happens to me if i get expelled i'm finished i'm completely done say
21:51something what do you even want the student conduct board just contacted me they said someone reported us
21:56for identity theft for messing with your college acceptance was that you was it or wasn't it i
22:00waited until she ran out of steam yes it was me what did i fake the screenshots and the access
22:06logs
22:06silence on her end but you took a gap year and got into mit even if we logged into your
22:12account we
22:12didn't actually hurt you in any real way her voice dropped went smaller a little guilty the fact that i
22:17got into mit is about me it has nothing to do with you going easy on me can't you just
22:22think about how
22:22long we've known each other don't bring up something that doesn't exist another silence then lexi completely
22:27fell apart sobbing taylor i know i was wrong i really do just forgive me this once i swear i'll
22:33never go near ethan again email the school and tell them it was a misunderstanding please just drop it
22:39listening to her i felt something almost like disbelief after everything she still thought her only real
22:43mistake was sleeping with my boyfriend like handing the garbage back to me would erase what she'd
22:46actually done what you did broke the law the school will handle it through the proper process i'm not
22:51withdrawing anything at three that afternoon ethan called too his voice was nothing like the days
22:59before wrecked worn down taylor you're the one who filed the report yes why you broke the law i'm the
23:08victim protecting my rights is exactly what i'm supposed to do taylor he went quiet for a moment
23:13almost a whisper if i get expelled it goes on my permanent record my life is over when you click
23:19decline on my application did you stop to think about whether my life would be over total silence on
23:24the line then after a long pause he actually tried to argue it that's different you're brilliant even
23:31starting over a year behind you'd land somewhere great i i don't have what you have if i get expelled
23:37my dad will never forgive me ethan do you hear yourself right now taylor i'm begging you just this
23:45once i'll do anything if you drop it ethan you made your bed now lie in it
24:03one month later columbia didn't release an official disciplinary statement ferpa rules kept that private
24:09but the columbia daily spectator broke the story anyway two undergraduate students have been suspended
24:15pending a disciplinary hearing following findings that they allegedly gained unauthorized access to
24:20another student's application system and deliberately altered admissions records in serious violation of
24:27the university's academic integrity policy and student conduct code oh my god taylor the victim in this
24:33article kind of sounds like you and the two-facing expulsion is one of them that guy who was following
24:37you around she asked it carefully bingo holy shit taylor that's insane okay but that is karma thank god
24:47you're done with those two toxic disasters we're going out tonight to celebrate downtown no arguments
24:52a few months after that between the identity theft charges and the unauthorized computer access ethan and
24:57lexi were formally expelled then came the criminal charges from the district attorney they resolved
25:01through a plea deal a separate civil settlement came after that and they paid me a significant amount
25:05in damages that was the moment i finally got back what had been taken from the version of me
25:09sobbing alone at midnight a year before what happened to them after that i never looked into time kept
25:14moving by the end of my first month at mit the place already felt like home that stretch of life
25:21was clean and full classes the lab weekend ends at boston harbor with friends eating lobster rolls
25:26no drama no betrayal just good days i finished freshman year with a 4.0 junior year i was selected
25:33for
25:33a nobel laureates research group in the physics department senior year i received a fully funded direct
25:38phd offer from mit full funding full stipend that thanksgiving i went home like gossip she'd been
25:46sitting on ethan ended up with a record no good school would take him his dad cut him off completely
25:51he ended up at some no-name community college out of state and lexi's working the register she actually
25:57came back here asking me and your dad for money we are not that kind of soft and we told
26:03her to get out
26:06mom drink something you've been talking for 10 minutes straight
26:11you better eat more tonight you've lost weight in that lab
26:20happy holidays team
26:26i thought about the version of me from a few years ago standing at a fork in the road one
26:31who got hit with
26:32the worst kind of betrayal and still got back up and started over the one who stood in the cold
26:38in new
26:39york and walked away without looking back the one who gathered every piece of evidence and let the
26:45rules do exactly what they were there to do if i could go back and say something to her what
26:51would it be
26:52you go girl some people come into your life only to show you what the world is actually capable of
27:00and some people leave it to make room for something better i don't thank the people who hurt me
27:08i thank the version of myself that dusted off stood up in the wreckage and kept walking forward
27:16as for ethan and lexi they don't even register as characters in my story anymore at most they were
27:22something i stepped in by accident wiped off and moved on the road ahead is long and the view from
27:29here is
27:30looking pretty good
27:31you
27:31you
27:32you
27:32you
27:32you