The Smear Campaign

Summary

At the university's Top Ten Outstanding Students award ceremony, just as I stepped onto the podium, the massive projector screen suddenly went black.

The next second, dozens of highly explicit, scandalous text message screenshots popped up on the screen.

The entire auditorium of two thousand students and faculty erupted in a deafening uproar.

The sender was me. The recipient was sitting in the very front row: the campus golden boy, academic prodigy, and junior finance major, Liam Vance.

The screenshots were filled with messages I had sent:

[I'm broke. Send me a thousand bucks.]