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do well the second time. Plus we'll just lose face by taking it again.”
“ Well, let's not worry just yet. I mean, we still have to wait about a month for the results,
right? Who knows, we may be totally wrong. We might even get a 45T!”
“ I know you're an optimist, Gabriel, but you're also an idiot. I'll be lucky to even get a
25J. I studied so hard...for nothing.”
“ Look, not everyone's cut out for medical school. You can always go take the LSAT
and get into law school.”
“ You know how I hate court. You do, too, Mr. I-Spent-A-Week-In-OC-Jail. There's no
way either of us are going to law school.”
“ Then what other options do you suggest, Johnson? ”
“ Well, I would suggest engineering but it's too freaking late for that. Plus, my parents
would literally kill me for taking the 3 rd
Gabriel.
place option. Your parents will kill you too, ” I remind
“ Then I guess we'll have no choice but to wait until we get our results, ” Gabriel
concludes, wanting to change the subject.
“ Dude, listen. If we get below a 25, the repercussions are extremely serious. My
parents are going to go ape sh*t and your's will too.”
“ I know, Johnson. But don't worry about a thing; everything will be fine. And again, we
have to wait until we get our results. So let's just chill out and relax. ” Gabriel's right; he's
always right, except for the time that he told me that Jane Tanenbaum liked me in 4 th
grade—
lie; and the time that he told me that girls had a vagina and a penis, when we were in middle
school— lie; and the time that he told me that Stanford University will accept anyone as long
as they're Asian, to fulfill a minority quota— lie. Now that I think about it, he's rarely right. He
lies a lot. I just hope he's not lying about how “ everything will be fine ” once we get our MCAT
scores.
After about an hour and about a hundred beers in our stomachs, we both continue
sitting there, sobering up and thinking about how we'll tell our parents the bad news. I like
Gabriel's approach: lie. I think I'll do that because I can stall my parents until I decide whether
or not to take the MCAT a second time. Then again, they'll ask for the results of the first one,
which will be in about a month. I think I'll just tell them that I did fine, since that'll buy me some
more time to come up with a better excuse, when they do indeed find out that I bombed it.