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

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

walked over and nodded to us. Mark still had

and Carrie

pausing for a second

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 were

Carrie were having a hard

too," I muttered

one hand shoving Tiff and Carrie

situation awkward as hell, but

small chuckle and leaned closer to

on your art portfolio, by

breath hitched as soon as I caught his delicious masculine

of

smell is

as he knew the effect he had

nodded goodbye to my friends one last time before turning to his

as he walked away, all cool and sexy

thought senior year was gonna

had finished my AP Art class so I had no other

think that things wouldn't be awkward

course, he wasn't gonna let me

boy, do I like

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

a small red- haired woman

retiring, but she never did.Her office was this

had all these motivational posters on the wall with cliché quotes such as, ‘The Only Way to Guarantee

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

from those letters, these students really loved and thanked her for helping them go to

known to

up

make sure you know about it and not let it go to

call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband

hope

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

and she started flipping through

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

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

working all summer.I'm

financial aid and scholarships available.I can help you look into

be

financial components aside, let's take a look at your grades,"Her eyes busily scanned the papers

a few times, so I took it as a good

well on your SATs.You've got marvelous grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say

saying that I have a good chance at Princeton, Columbia, or U

answer right

essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think you

why these schools in particular?"she

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

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

gonna be in the

Ivy League

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

yourself for an

tone of

handle all that?"she said

at her question

the future—about how