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 laughed

and nudged me to the

and nodded to us. Mark still had no clue and I intended

and Carrie

greeted everyone, pausing for a second before giving me a look and said,

toe.He bit his lip as he noticed how short my

"Hi,"I said.

say it to

were having a hard time suppressing their

I

shoving Tiff and Carrie to

this situation awkward as hell, but

small chuckle

portfolio,

soon as I caught his

of

smell is

a naughty smirk as he knew the effect he

my friends one last time before

he walked away, all cool and sexy

year was gonna

AP Art class so I had

think that things wouldn't be awkward

course, he wasn't gonna

do I like

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

small red- haired

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

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 sufficiently motivated,

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

students really loved and

was known to be

straight up if you weren't

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

call , Sorry about the interruption.My

okay.I hope he finds

her eyes and grabbed a brown file from her

it and

I see you're applying to several schools out of state.And one school in the state.The University of

that’s a back-up plan.My parents think we might not

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

scholarships available.I can help you look

would be

look at your grades,"Her eyes

so

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

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

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, "That’s good to

particular?"she paused for a moment before

University of Georgia is also a good school.But you don’t seem to

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

gonna be in the east coast next

Ivy League

set on the Ivy League, then I must tell you, they're not easy," she said in a commanding

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

daunting.That tone

handle all that?"she said

her question and

thinking hard about the future—about how