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

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

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

Carrie

everyone, pausing for a second before giving

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

"Hi,"I said.

it to

a hard time suppressing their

I muttered

hand shoving Tiff and Carrie

awkward as hell, but lan

he let out a small chuckle and leaned

job on your art portfolio,

breath hitched as soon as I

of five,"

his smell is

smirk as he

one last time before

he walked away, all

thought senior year was gonna be

my AP Art class so

to think that things wouldn't be

course, he wasn't gonna let me off so

boy, do

I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance counselor for some wisdom in regards to my college

a small red- haired woman

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

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

so I had ample time to read

really loved and thanked her for helping them go

was known to

straight up if you

would make sure you know

about

okay.I hope he

pocket.Always is,"she rolled her eyes and grabbed a brown

had my name on it and she

state.And one

back-up plan.My parents think we might

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

are financial aid and scholarships available.I can help

would be

at your grades,"Her eyes busily scanned the papers

a few times, so I took it as a good

very well on 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

at Princeton, Columbia,

answer

"With the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think you can go far," I let out a relieved sigh

schools in particular?"she paused

school.But you don’t

a great school, but..." But that’s

the east coast

Ivy

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

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

daunting.That tone of voice hers wasn’t

handle all that?"she

swallowed hard at her question and my

hard about the