Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 35: Senior Year 

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

and nudged me to the direction of

over and nodded to us.

and Carrie

a second

head to toe.He bit his lip as he noticed how short my skirt was.He narrowed

"Hi,"I said.

it to everyone, but his eyes were fixed intently

were having a hard

I

one hand shoving Tiff and Carrie to

friends were making this situation awkward as hell, but lan

a small chuckle and

on your art portfolio, by the

breath hitched as soon as I caught his delicious

out of five,"

smell is

as he knew the effect he

one

watching him as he walked away, all cool and

was gonna be

class so I

think that things wouldn't

course, he wasn't gonna let me

do I

period today after lunch, so I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance counselor for some wisdom in regards to my college

red- haired woman in

she said she was retiring, but she never did.Her office

with cliché quotes such as, ‘The Only Way to Guarantee Failure is to Never

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

loved and thanked her for helping them go to

known to be a

straight up if

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

she finally finished her call , Sorry about

okay.I hope he

her eyes and grabbed a

on it and she started flipping through

to several schools out of state.And one school

parents think we

for a moment before continuing, "But I've been working all summer.I'm

available.I can help you look into some

be

your

times, so I took it as a good

all have nothing but nice things to

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

didn't answer right

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,

schools in particular?"she paused for a

a good school.But you don’t seem to care as much for

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

the

Ivy League

the Ivy League, then I must tell you, they're

for an interview,

tone of voice hers wasn’t helping

you can handle all that?"she

hard at her question and my mind started

thinking hard about the future—about how

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