Little Miss Know-It-All

Little miss college

Note from the author:
Hi! This is my new book Little Miss Know-It-All. Before you start reading (I promise this won't be long) I just wanted to say, yes, I do know Aragon Heights College (which is Emily's college as you will read about soon) in Southern California is not a real college, well who knows I guess but I'm pretty sure it's not, and I just want to let you guys know that this story is 100% fiction. Hope you enjoy!

       "Here. Again." I whispered to my roommate Chloe as we walked onto our college campus.
We go to Aragon Heights College in Southern California. The dorms are nice, the food is good, and it's not in the middle of nowhere, So that's definitely a plus. Chloe is my roommate. She is exactly like me. We love partying. We don't exactly do anything else at college... And I know what you are wondering. Umm, what about your parents. Well I guess since I'm giving you the cold truth right now, I'll tell you. They're dead. My whole family was killed in a car crash, except for me. I survived. I was 5, so I don't remember anything, but frankly, I'm glad about that. I was raised in an orphanage and then, when I was 18, it was time for college. So, I chose to go to Aragon. I had exceptionally good grades, so it wasn't hard for me. I was bullied a lot at the orphanage because people thought I had no social life, and only focused on school. When I came to Aragon, I wanted to prove them wrong. So I just forgot about school. Let my social life take over, and came to all of these random peoples houses and well, you know what people do at college parties. If you don't, go and read another persons book. I'm not in the mood to explain it all.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have had the dreams to become a lawyer. I've always been an arguer, so it comes naturally to argue my way into a case. I always win. That's what I came to Aragon to do. To study to become the lawyer I've always wanted to be. But, as I said, that plan didn't work. I don't know what happened to me. I just let myself fall so far. Now the whole school thinks of me as a partier. That is not my ideal label. I really want to change. To not be called partier and party animal or whatever people call me. I want to be normal. I don't want any attention. I want to get good grades and I want my professors to like me. And I want to change. That is what I need to do.
All of this hit me last week. When I was packing up to go back to college after visiting my friends from the orphanage over the summer. I realized that if I fail college, I have no shot. No shot of becoming the lawyer if my dreams, no shot of being taken seriously, and no shot of a life. I realized things needed to change about the way I thought about college. I realized I needed to step up my game.
So, I told Chloe all of this the other day. She said I sound like Elle Woods, but I'm not doing this for a guy that doesn't even like me anymore, I'm doing this for my own good, so I beg to differ. But she wouldn't give up on the Elle Woods thing. So, I told her it was her choice if she wanted to be a failure in life. And, just like that, she was on my side. So, we came up with a master plan. Take college seriously.