Kieran never came looking for me again.
I heard things got very difficult for him at college. Tessa's parents came every day, demanding compensation. The university eventually gave him a formal disciplinary record and stripped him of all his academic honors. He tried to go back to Tessa to ease the pressure and blame crushing down on him. She pointed at his face and screamed that he was a fraud. Her parents threw him out. It got ugly. Tessa even posted all their old chat logs online—all the lies Kieran had boasted to her about.
After that, Kieran became the campus laughingstock. When the graduate exam results came out, his name was nowhere near the list. Maybe the pressure was too much. Maybe he had simply given up. He started spending all his time in internet cafés, rotting away. It was
