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

totally do love you,"Tiff winked and nudged me to

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

Carrie

second before giving me a look and

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

"Hi,"I said.

to say it to everyone, but

and Carrie were having a hard time suppressing their

I

hand shoving Tiff and Carrie to keep

this situation awkward as

let out a small

portfolio, by

as

of five,"

smell is

lips twitched into a naughty smirk as he knew the effect he

goodbye to my friends one last time before turning to

watching him as he walked away, all cool and sexy

was gonna

Art class so

foolish of me to think that things wouldn't be awkward

gonna let

boy, do

after lunch, so I decided to meet Mrs.Ash, our guidance counselor for some wisdom

small red- haired woman in her

retiring, but she never did.Her office was this small

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

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

loved and

was known to be a

would tell you straight up

good in you, she would make sure you know about it

call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband forgot where

hope

rolled her eyes and grabbed a brown

had my name on it and she started flipping through

to several schools out of state.And one school in the

a back-up plan.My parents think we might

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

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

would be great,"I

your grades,"Her eyes busily scanned the papers in her

a few times, so I took it as a good

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

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

answer

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

particular?"she paused

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

great school, but..." But that’s

be in the

Ivy League school,"I said

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

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

looked so daunting.That tone of voice hers

can handle all that?"she

hard at her question and my

about the future—about how it