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 laughed

do love you,"Tiff winked and nudged me to the direction of

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

and Carrie said in

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

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

"Hi,"I said.

say it to everyone, but his eyes were

and Carrie were having a hard time

too," I

Tiff and Carrie to

this situation awkward as hell,

a small chuckle and leaned closer to

on your art portfolio, by the

soon as I caught his

of five,"

his smell is

lips twitched into a naughty smirk as he

one last time before turning

watching him as he

senior year was gonna

had finished my AP Art class so I had

things wouldn't be awkward with us in the

of course, he wasn't gonna let me off

boy, do I

I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance counselor for

small red- haired woman

she was retiring, but she never did.Her office was this small square

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

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

those letters, these students really loved and thanked her

known to be a

straight up if you weren't

would make sure you know

finished her call , Sorry about

hope

his jeans’ pocket.Always is,"she rolled her eyes and grabbed a brown file

and she started flipping

several schools out of state.And one school in the state.The

think we might not have enough money for

been working all summer.I'm working on the

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

would be great,"I

a look at your

nodded appreciatively a few times, so I took it as

got marvelous grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about you.And your

a good chance at Princeton, Columbia, or U Penn?" I asked

answer

watched me intently."That's possible,"she said finally, "With the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think you can go far," I let out a relieved sigh and said, "That’s good to

in particular?"she paused

also a good school.But you don’t seem

of Georgia is a great school, but..." But that’s not where lan and I will

in the

not an Ivy League school,"I

then I must tell you, they're not easy," she said in

you need to prepare yourself for an interview,

tone of voice hers wasn’t

you can handle all that?"she said

hard at her question and

about the future—about