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

winked and nudged me to the direction

to us. Mark still had no clue

Mr.Hayes,"Tiff and Carrie

everyone, pausing for a second before giving me a

from head to toe.He bit his lip as he noticed how short

"Hi,"I said.

say it to everyone, but his eyes were fixed

Carrie were having a

too," I muttered

Tiff

making this situation awkward as hell, but lan

he let out a small

art portfolio, by the

breath hitched as soon as I caught his

out of five,"

smell

lips twitched into a naughty smirk as he

nodded goodbye to my friends one

watching him as he walked

year was gonna be a

AP Art class so

think that things wouldn't be

course, he wasn't gonna let me off

boy, do

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

a small red- haired woman in her

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

all 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 sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of

had ample time to read through

and thanked her for

to be a

straight up if you weren't Harvard

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

her call , Sorry about the interruption.My husband forgot

okay.I hope

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

my name on it and she started flipping through the pages

you're applying to several schools out of state.And one school

think we

"But I've been working all summer.I'm working on the weekends too.I've been saving up.I think I can

there are financial aid and scholarships available.I can help

would be

look at your grades,"Her eyes busily scanned the papers

nodded appreciatively a few times, so I took it

marvelous grades.And your teachers all have nothing but nice things to say about

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

didn't answer

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

schools in particular?"she

also a good school.But you don’t seem

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

in the

an Ivy

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

to prepare yourself for an interview,

everything looked so daunting.That tone

can handle

hard at her question and my

about the future—about how it