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 of a teacher that was walking

shushed them quickly as Mr.Hayes walked over and nodded to us. Mark still had no clue and I intended to

Mr.Hayes,"Tiff and Carrie said

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

toe.He bit his lip as he noticed how short my skirt was.He narrowed his eyes at me, but I

"Hi,"I said.

it to everyone, but his eyes

were having a hard time suppressing

too," I muttered

had one hand shoving Tiff and

were making this situation awkward as hell, but

let out a small chuckle

job on your art portfolio, by

breath hitched as soon as I

out of

smell

naughty smirk as he knew

my friends one last time before turning

as he walked away, all

year was

Art class so I had no other

to think that things wouldn't be awkward with

he wasn't gonna let me

do I like

so I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance

was a small red- haired woman in her

did.Her office was this small square room with a desk in the

on the wall with cliché quotes such as, ‘The Only Way to Guarantee Failure is to Never Try" or "Discipline: When a man is sufficiently

the phone for a while, so I had ample time to read through the motivational posters

from those letters, these students really loved and thanked her for helping

was known to

up if you

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

Sorry about the interruption.My husband forgot where he put

okay.I hope he

eyes and grabbed

and she started flipping through the pages

schools out of state.And one school in

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

summer.I'm

financial aid and scholarships available.I can help you look into

be great,"I

take a look at your grades,"Her eyes busily scanned the

times, so I took

grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about you.And your extracurricular activities

at Princeton, Columbia, or U Penn?"

answer

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

tell me, why these schools in particular?"she paused for

Georgia is also a good school.But you don’t

school, but..." But that’s not where lan and I will

gonna be in the east coast next

Ivy League school,"I said

dead set on the Ivy League, then I must tell you, they're not easy," she said in

then you need to prepare yourself for an interview, either with a staff from the school

daunting.That tone of voice

can handle

at her question and my mind

thinking hard about the future—about how it could