The English Project

chapter 17

The image is not exactly what happens, it's only an idea.
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For the rest of the week Alex and I had been pretty much back to normal although he has been with Jessica more then before, but it's just something that I'll have to get used to.

Today is Friday afternoon, I'm currently sitting on my stool in the garage blasting Alec Benjamin and painting.

Someone comes into the garage and I see that Carly is standing in front of me.

I turn off my music so I can hear her.

"Hey" is all she says

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

"Well we haven't spent time together in like forever, and I know we're both busy but I was thinking that you and I have a sister fun day" she smiles.

"Sister fun day? Really?" I judge her choice of words.

"ya , come on! It'll be fun, we can go shopping and get our nails done!"

"And then braid each others hair!" I say sarcastically back.

"Fine we don't have to" she rolls her eyes

"No I'll come" I say and get up from my stool.

We've been at the mall for about 2 hours just shopping, now we sit at the food court.

"So how's senior year?" she asks me

"Good I guess"

"God I remember Senior year as if it were yesterday"

"It practically was Carly, I mean I'm 17 and you're 18 you legit just Graduated last year and you got into Cornell late cause you were on the waiting list" I say

"Well at least I know what I wanna do with my life"

"Hey I know what I wanna do, I just haven't told Mom and Dad yet that's all."

"Have you looked into colleges yet?"

"Ya, Academy of Art University in San Fran, and CalArts, they're both in California, but the other school I'm looking at is MassArts." I say

"And that's in Boston?"

"Ya"

"Well I'm going to New York"

"But then none of us would be close to Mom and Dad'

"I'm sure they'd be fine"

"Ya."

The rest of the day at the mall was just us getting our nails done and chatting.

"I actually had fun today Carly, thanks"  I say as we both enter our house.

"Me too"

"Oh good you guys are home, dinner is ready in 5 minutes, set the table the both of you please." our mom says from the kitchen.

"Mom the food is really good" I say

"Thanks honey, so I wanted to know if you've been looking at some colleges, I have great connections at schools for Law"

"Umm actually Mom and Dad, I have been looking into schools, but they're not for Law or Medical. I looked at MassArts, CalArts and Academy of Art University, I wanna be a painter. And I know that you guys won't think that It will be a successful job and I know it's not high paying, but I love it and it's what I wanna do, and I don't care if that mean I don't live in a mansion, I'm fine with that" I say