Chapter 40

In a nutshell, most of the class assumed Stephen had flunked his SAT. Sadie tagged Stephen and said, "Hey, did you actually flunk your SAT?" She even added a hugging emoji at the end of her sentence. Ryder replied, "He definitely tanked. But Stephen can always repeat the year and aim for Harvard or Yale next year." Sadie fired back with an angry emoji, "Ryder, why do you sound so gleeful about it?" Ryder replied, "I'm not, I swear! Don't put words in my mouth..." Natasha suddenly messaged, "Stop guessing. Stephen scored 1520, with a perfect math score—the only one in the state. Harvard and Yale were fighting over him yesterday afternoon." The group chat instantly went silent for a full two minutes until Sadie finally broke the silence. Sadie asked, "Nat, you're not joking, right?" The group exploded as they were all stunned to hear that Stephen scored 1520 points on his SAT, even getting the only perfect math score in the state. If that were the case, Stephen could surely be