Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA’s POV : 

"Can you believe it? We're officially high school seniors,"

Carrie exclaimed as we walked down the long hallway and rows of lockers.

"l suddenly feel so old,"

Mark said as he put his arm around Carrie.

"I think I'm having senioritis already,"Tiff added, rolling her eyes.

 "Look alive, Tiff.College applications are coming up,"Carrie said.

"I’m not gonna go to college.I'm taking a gap year to backpack across Europe,"Tiff announced proudly.

"Are you really?" I narrowed my eyes at her.

"My parents think it's a good idea.This way I can figure out what I really want in life.I also have an aunt that lives in Barcelona.She’s gonna let me stay with her,"

"Wow, your parents are the best,"I admitted.

Tiff really had the coolest parents out of all of us.

They were these vegan, hippie, and earth loving type of folks.

They were always happy, positive, and Zen.

They encouraged their kids to explore and live life boundlessly.

I would say they did a great job because Tiff turned out to be an amazing girl.

"God, I wish I could do that.My parents would never let me,"Carrie sighed.

"Me too.They‘re dead set on sending me to college ever since I was two.When I told them UC Berkeley is my first choice, they actually laughed at me.They said UC Berkeley's a safety school.They don’t want anything less than Ivy Leagues or MIT and Stanford,"

Mark rambled about his home life.As student body president, his whole life was dedicated to college.This was his moment.

"My parents met in Berkeley,"Tiff cut in, 

"What, your parents don't think UC Berkeley is good enough for you?"

"Clearly, you've never met my parents,"he replied.

"Yeah, and trust me, it’s better that way,"Carrie scoffed ,

 "They actually think that I was the one that poisoned Mark into wanting to go to UC Berkeley,"

"But it’s kinda true though? Mark’s only applying to Berkeley because you wanna go to Berkeley," I pointed out the obvious and Carrie glared at me.

"Yeah, but that’s not the point now is it?"

Carrie slapped my arm playfully and I laughed.

"How about you, little miss perfect attendance? You thought about where you're applying to?"

"A bunch of schools in the east coast.And like, one school in the state,"

I sighed when I remembered I had to apply to one, "Safety net,"

"The east coast? Like what?"Mark asked.

"Some schools in New York like the CUNYs, Fordham, Barnard, and Columbia.Also Princeton and University of Pennsylvania, but I wouldn't count on those,"

"Why not? You're definitely Ivy League material,"Carrie stated.

"Yeah.You scored a 1500 on your SATs, your grades are amazing, and you did a bunch of extracurricular activities,"Tiff added.

"And teachers love you.I bet they'll write you a kickass recommendation letter,"

Mark chimed in.

I bet,"Carrie

winked and nudged me to the direction

shushed them quickly as Mr.Hayes walked over and nodded to us.

and Carrie said in

Tiffany,"he greeted everyone, pausing for a second before giving me a

as he noticed how short

"Hi,"I said.

say it to

a hard time suppressing their

I muttered

had one hand shoving Tiff and Carrie

friends were making this situation awkward as hell, but lan

small chuckle

your art portfolio, by

soon as I caught his delicious

of

his smell is

into a naughty smirk as he knew the

goodbye to my friends one last time before turning

as he walked away, all cool and sexy

thought senior year was

class so I had no

me to think that things wouldn't be awkward with

he wasn't gonna let me off

boy, do

period today after lunch, so I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance counselor for some wisdom in

a small red- haired woman in her

retiring, but she never did.Her office

quotes such as, ‘The Only Way to Guarantee Failure is to Never Try" or "Discipline:

was on the phone for a while, so I had ample time to read through the motivational posters and letters from her

really loved and thanked her for helping them go to

was known to be a

straight up

if she saw something good in you, she would make sure you know about it and not let it go to

call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband

hope

rolled her eyes and grabbed

and she started flipping through the

state.And one school

a back-up plan.My parents think we might not have

before continuing, "But I've been working all summer.I'm working on the weekends too.I've been saving up.I think I can

and scholarships available.I

be

take a look at your grades,"Her

nodded appreciatively a few times, so I took it as a good

well on your SATs.You've got marvelous grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about you.And your

good chance at Princeton,

answer right

said finally, "With the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think you can go

in particular?"she paused

a good school.But you don’t seem to care as

of Georgia is a great school, but..." But that’s not

be in the

an Ivy League school,"I

the Ivy League, then I must tell you, they're not

college essay should be priority number one.And then you need to prepare yourself for an interview, either with a staff from the school or a_ selected

suddenly everything looked so daunting.That tone

can handle

her question

was thinking hard about the future—about how it could