Lilly

Epilogue

Fall - Senior Year

"Lilly!" Sarah called.

Lilly made her way through the crowded hall to her best, and only friend. "What's up?"

"Have you seen the class rank?" Sarah asked.

"No, why?" It wasn't as if she cared about the class ranks.

"You're at the top! Everyone's going crazy about the possibility you could be Valedictorian. Marcus and Ainsley are so mad," she said, smiling at Lilly. There was only one other person who knew Lilly would find that not only funny, but gratifying.

"Well, serves them right for thinking they're the best. They should remember, there's always someone better than you," Lilly said, her smile very sadistic.

"They said they're going to get their parents to fight to have you dropped from the ranks," Sarah said.

"I don't care," Lilly said, getting very sassy, imitating their snobby attitude. "I'm better than them, and if they try, I'll tell Uncle Horace," she said, making herself sound as snotty as she could.

"Lilly, this is for real. They think they can get you removed from the list."

"Let 'em try," Lilly said, this time there was no sass, or snobbery. There was pure ire.

"What can you do?"

"If they have me removed, I will get Uncle Horace involved."

Lilly knew, all she had to do was make A's in all of her classes to wrap it up. She'd already known where she was in the class ranks. She didn't care about being valedictorian, or even salutatorian, but if she earned it, she wouldn't let those stuck up snobs steal it from her.

"Where are you?" She hadn't looked to see where Sarah was, even though she should have.

"Fifth, thanks to Mrs. Burton."

"Mrs. Burton might be a hard teacher, but she's not the one that didn't put her best into that essay."

"Yeah. One B and I dropped out of the top three."

"That doesn't matter. What scholarships you get is what matters."

"But it would be nice to be up there with you, when you give your speech."

"Oh crap!" Lilly exclaimed, "I forgot I'd have to give a stupid speech."

"They might write one for you. I doubt they trust you to write something they want to hear."

"Thanks," Lilly said, and shoved Sarah a little.

"You're taking AP Calculus 45, or something crazy like that, along with AP Physics 37 and AP everything else. Will you be able to keep straight A's this year?"

"I'm taking Calculus 2, and only two other AP classes, so yes, keeping my grades up won't be a problem. If they take more AP classes than me, and get straight A's, they might end up higher than me," Lilly said.

"I don't think they are, but even if they do, I still don't think they can catch you, unless you bomb something."

"How do you know?"

"What, about them not taking enough classes, or them not having a chance?"

"Either?" Lilly kind of asked.

"Well, you're too far ahead in points for them to catch up if you make all A's. As far as them taking more AP classes, that's because I heard them talking about trying to change into more AP classes so they could get more points."