At graduation, Stella expects her three closest childhood friends to choose her. In a game about who knows whom best, all three choose Lily. Then Stella asks who should be left behind if only four can go to college together—and every boy writes her name. She doesn’t argue. She quietly changes her college plans and leaves for a school 1,700 miles away. As she builds a new life on her own terms, the friends who took her for granted finally come looking. Their apologies arrive too late: Stella has
