Charlie at College
I stare at the thick envelope in my pale hands. Can this really be happening? Harvard, the college I applied to, had sent me a letter. Yes, a letter. Thick and see through, with Charlotte Duncan written on the outside. I run inside, where my younger brother Toby, a sophmore, is watching TV, and my parents are reading a book.
"It's here," I say dramaticly.
Everyone leaps up. "Open it!" They urge.
I tear open the envelope and the first thing I see is," Congradualations, Ms. Duncan. We have acc-"
I scream. I'm going to Harvard! But my parents are looking at me with a mixture of pity and exasperation. I frown. Was the shriek of delight not clear? "I'm going to Harvard!" I yelp.
Toby hugs me around the middle. "I'm happy for ya, Charlie," he says. But Mom and Dad still look disappointed. "I'm happy, Charlie," Mom says. But she doesn't sound it. "But you're going to Broadway to become a musical talent, and that's that."
I feel frustration clawing at the pit of my stomach. "What you never got to do does not become my duty!" I shout. "Teddy went to Yale and now she's governer of Maine! You never made her go to Broadway! PJ's a pro chef in LA now! And Gabe's a comedian in Hollywood! Neither of them ever had to go to Broadway!"
Mom puts her hands on my shoulders. "You are my Charlie," she says steadily. "And you are going to finish what I started."
"But-"
"You will, Charlotte Anne Duncan!"
I glower at them both and stomp upstairs to my bedroom.
Why was life so unfair? Then an idea struck me. I stuff my suitcase full of everything I'd need. Then I scrawl on a sheet of paper," Of to Harvard. To fulfill my dream. Not yours. Tell Toby I love him."
When they went to bed, I snuck out. I left the note on their bed and boarded the city bus.
I looked back at my house.
"Good-bye, Duncans," I whisper.
Then we turn a corner and everything is gone.
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