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

to the direction of a teacher that

to us. Mark still had no clue and

Carrie said in

a second before giving me a look and

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

"Hi,"I said.

say it to everyone, but his eyes

Carrie were having a hard time suppressing

too," I

one hand shoving Tiff and Carrie

as hell, but lan was unfazed by

a small chuckle and

on your art portfolio, by the way,"he

as soon as I caught

of

smell is

into a naughty smirk as he knew

nodded goodbye to my friends one last time before turning to

him as he walked away,

year was gonna

had finished my AP Art class so I had no

think that things wouldn't

of course, he wasn't gonna let me off so

boy, do I

free period today after lunch, so I decided to meet Mrs.Ash,

red- haired woman in

but she never did.Her office

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

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

students really loved and thanked her for

to be a

you straight up if you weren't Harvard

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

call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband

hope

rolled her eyes and

on it and she started flipping

of state.And one school in the state.The University of Georgia,"she read

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

continuing, "But I've been working all summer.I'm working on the weekends too.I've been

are financial aid and scholarships available.I can help you

be

aside, let's take a look at your grades,"Her eyes

few times, so I took it

teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about you.And your extracurricular activities are superb,"she said as she put the

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

answer right

the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think

these schools in particular?"she paused

school.But you don’t seem to care

Georgia is a great school, but..." But that’s

gonna be in the

it’s not an Ivy League school,"I said

must tell you, they're not easy,"

college essay should be priority number one.And then you need to prepare yourself for an

suddenly everything looked so daunting.That tone of voice hers wasn’t helping

you can handle all that?"she

at her question and my mind

was thinking hard about the