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

me to the direction of a teacher that was walking

to us. Mark still had

Mr.Hayes,"Tiff and Carrie

Mark, Tiffany,"he greeted everyone, pausing for a second

 He was eyeing me from head to toe.He bit his lip as he noticed how short my skirt was.He narrowed his eyes at me, but I just gave him a confident

"Hi,"I said.

first day,"he meant to say it to everyone, but his

were having a hard time suppressing

too," I muttered

Tiff and Carrie to keep

were making this situation awkward as

he let out a small

your art portfolio, by the way,"he

hitched as soon as I caught his

of

his smell is

a naughty smirk as he knew the effect he had on

goodbye to my friends one last

as he walked away, all

senior year was gonna

so I had

things wouldn't be awkward with

of course, he wasn't gonna let me off

boy, do

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

red- haired woman in

but she never did.Her office was this

‘The Only Way to Guarantee Failure is to Never Try" or "Discipline: When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of

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

these students really loved and thanked her for

was known to be

would tell you straight up if you weren't Harvard

she would make sure you know about it and

call , Sorry about the interruption.My

okay.I hope he finds

rolled her eyes and grabbed a

and she started

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

parents think we

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

available.I can help you look into some

would be great,"I nodded

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

a few times, so I took it

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

that I have a good chance at Princeton,

answer

said finally, "With the right college essay, Ms.Sinclair, I think

in particular?"she

a good school.But you don’t seem

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

in the east coast next

an Ivy League

then I must

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

tone of voice hers

handle all

hard at her question and my mind

the future—about how it