When I Dropped Out, His First Love Freaked Out

Summary

At the final presentation for our startup incubator competition, Joss’s childhood friend, Hailey, demanded to be made team leader. She needed the extra academic honors it would grant to secure a full-ride scholarship to the graduate program.

For the good of the project, I refused. She wasn’t qualified. In a fit of rage, she dropped out of the competition and let her parents drag her back to their dead-end town in the rust belt to be married off.

I took the reins, and our team won first place. We all got offered spots in the MBA program, and our venture became the talk of the business school.