My Destiny (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 1

Beth's POV

I Beth Martin graduated as a Civil Engineer and pass the board exam at the age of 23. You know having the title as an Engineer is amazing of course a lot of my relative think that I'm genius but hey I do have an average grade and I believe that grades doesn't determine our future. Back in my college days I study hard to get a good grade but I don't know why I still fail some of my subject and it sucks. There was one time I fail 4 of my subjects and the Dean of our college would like to talk to those students who fail half of their units and of course I'm one of them. When I went to see the Dean to my surprise there's a lot of student waiting for the Dean and I'm thankful that I'm not the only student who is failing lol. After a long wait it's my time to talk to the Dean, my heart keeps on beating fast and I can't help it. I tried to sit comfortably at the chair then the Dean says "can I see your grade?" then I handled it to him, I look at him, his hair is white and he's wearing a thick glasses he is in his mid 50's. "Miss Martin why did you fail half of your units? Is it your first time to take this subject?" yes sir I said it's just that the night before the exam I tried to finish my 3D building which is my final requirement in AutoCAD subject and took me until 3 am to finish it so I wasn't able to review some of my subject.

Upon saying my reason my eyes become teary because I was nervous then the Dean said "Ok I'll let it go but the next time you'll come here with failing grades we need to discuss something". Hearing his last word makes me relieved because I can leave now his office but thinking about what he said I know that the time I'll come to his office with failing grades I know that he'll let me transfer school or shift course which I don't want to happen. Because of my grades I am ashamed to talk to my friend in school 'cause I know that well just compare our grade which is common to us so after I finished enrolling I tried to get out of the room as fast as I could. "Beth!" a feminine voice call my name uggh who must it be?, I look at my back and I am thankful that it was my best friend Jessy. Jessy and I were friends since we were first year she was like a sister to me, I met her in my Algebra class and I was thankful when she and I was in the same block section meaning, we will be in the same class for the whole semester. Now that we were in our second year of college we were still friends which I was thankful of. "What's up? How's your grade?" she said. Yeah I fail half of my units and I reported to the Dean a while back but it's fine it happens all the time and I was used to it, isn't that it took me 3 years to accomplish the 2 years of this course? I said "Are you sure your fine?" Jessy ask. Of course I am, should I be talking to you if I'm not fine? I said "then should we just eat?" sure I responded.

Eating is our getaway when we were sad or happy atleast in this manner we can release the emotion inside of us. After ordering our food we sat in the corner of the restaurant where in you can see the view outside and it is our favorite spot. "So how was your vacation?" she said to start the conversation. My vacation was fine, what about you? I ask. "Yeah its fine, my routine is the same each day, what if we go shopping today?" she ask. Uggmm maybe we could go next time, i don't have yet my allowance and I think I can't have it because were having our financial problem this time. "Yeah, what if we see a movie, my treat" she said. Sure! I said, sometimes I've come to a point of envying her because she has everything wealth and a good family, she had a two brother who is a Doctor and a surgeon, her parents are both Doctors. All of them in her family took medicine but Jessy took Engineering we'll, at first her parents doesn't want her to take engineering 'cause they want her to follow their footsteps. It didn't take long before her parents accepted what Jessy wanted, she explained her side to her parents that she wanted to become an Engineer because she wanted to build a castle for her mom and dad, at first I laugh at her because of her reason, but what can I do she is a princess that wanted to build a castle for his parents and she is the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Carter and the last child.