The summer rays of cruel June barge in through the papery curtains and wake me up from my peaceful slumber on a Monday morning to school.
There is literally just three weeks left to school, I mean I have been going to that hellhole for more than a decade but Monday mornings are literally works of a devil.
Waking up from my comfy bedsheets and dressing myself up from school, I get a call from Adeline, "Morning" I greet her once I pick up the blaring mobile phone.
"Did you check your post?!" she questions before even wishing a reply back.
"Nah man, why what happened?" I ask her.
"Today is 10th of June" she states but no bells ring in my mind.
"Was there something... to expect?" I ask her scared that she might kill me for missing something extremely important.
"Yeah stupid, college acceptance letter" she reminds me.
"Oh My God! Yes!" I remember, the dates rushing back to me. "Thank god!"
"I'll check the mail secretively before you come over to pick me. I'll text you the details" I tell her and after a quick goodbye, I tiptoe outside my bedroom to see if Meghan is still asleep or not.
According to Adeline's and my calculations the universities should be sending their acceptance or rejection letters by today and I need to get the letters before Meghan gets her hands on them.
I check Meghan's room and laugh out loud when I spot her snoring on her laptop with her bedroom sheets crumpled and her papers scribbled. And then as if on the routine head to the kitchen to make breakfast.
But after making some initial preparations I sneak outside the house through the back door and run to check the post. With my heart palpating and my pulse quickening, I gather the white envelopes holding my future.
Most of them have come, there's Stanford University, Harvard, Oxford and University of Pennsylvania and several other dream colleges.
I tear open the sticky binding to the envelope of Oxford University first and my heart drops to the floor when they clearly wish me best of luck for my future and accept my admission but sweetly reject the scholarship requests. Oxford University is the one that Adeline has been pinning for and I wish with all my heart that if only I had the money for it.
The only money I have is few scrambled education insurances that my mother had started when I was about five and the insurances have matured now that I am about to turn eighteen in some time. The next letter I open is from the University of Pennsylvania.
I jump in joy and stuff the news of happiness in my school backpack as the university accepts my scholarship impressed with the several charity and social projects that I have volunteered through during the years.
And I prepare the breakfast with a secret smile as I bid goodbye to these days of Meghan's orders, her fuss, her house, and her rules.
When Adeline's car honks outside my door, I literally bolt out of the house to see her.
"So which college?" she asks.
"Well Oxford University rejects the scholarship but they would be glad if I could join as a full-time student but then there this blessing from God... The university of Pennsylvania" I tell her as I show her the varied letters of rejection and acceptance.
"So then America?" she asks me.
"It's scary" I admit. "I'll be missing the whole of summer and the whole of prom and the whole of graduation," I tell her as the prospect of college finally starts to loom.
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Another Broken Smile
Teen Fiction"And maybe it is just too late for you to come around, looking for the girl with the glass slipper..." The last year of high school before Ellie gets to finally leave everything behind her and chase her dreams. Her evil stepmom, stupid school, f...
