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.

bet,"Carrie

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

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

and Carrie said

a second before giving me a

as he noticed how short my skirt was.He narrowed his eyes at

"Hi,"I said.

say it to everyone, but his eyes were fixed

having a hard time suppressing their

too," I muttered

had one hand shoving Tiff and Carrie to

as

small chuckle and

job on your art portfolio, by the way,"he said

as I

of

smell

lips twitched into a naughty smirk as he knew

my friends one

stop watching him as he walked

thought senior year was gonna be

Art class so I had no other classes

of me to think that things wouldn't

gonna

do

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

red- haired woman

but she never did.Her office was this small square room with a desk

as, ‘The Only Way to Guarantee Failure is to

had ample time to read through the motivational posters and letters from

loved and thanked her for helping them

was known to be a

tell you straight up

good in you, she would make sure you know about it and

finished her call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband forgot

okay.I hope he

his jeans’ pocket.Always is,"she rolled her eyes

it and she started flipping through the

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

think we might not have enough money

summer.I'm working

scholarships available.I can help you

would be great,"I nodded

a look at your grades,"Her eyes

times, so I

your SATs.You've got marvelous grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about you.And your extracurricular activities are superb,"she said as she put the

at Princeton, Columbia, or U Penn?" I asked with

didn't answer

breath and watched me intently."That's possible,"she said finally, "With the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think you can go far,"

in particular?"she paused for

good school.But

school, but..." But that’s not where

the

an Ivy League school,"I

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

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

looked so daunting.That tone of

you can handle all that?"she said

question and my mind started

was thinking hard about the future—about how it could