"Well, Tina, as far as I can tell, you have a great application." Emma Pillsbury complimented. "You have credits, extra curricular, and that essay kicked butt. You'll definitely get into Puget Sound."
"Thanks, my mom said I should talk to some one who, you know, knows something about applying to colleges. She didn't remember much."
"I'm glad you came in; I hope I helped. Anything else you wanted to talk about?"
Tina considered. Was the guidance counselor the greatest person to open to, even if you have been trying to find a good confidant lately?
"Actually, yes."
"I'm all ears."
"Well, with all this college application and preparation going on… I just don't feel so sure that I'm ready to leave."
"I would say that of course you are, but why don't you feel so?"
"I just… Glee club has been so amazing for the past… three years, it's been. It's the first place I have been able to open up to anyone and be myself without being ridiculed."
"Puget Sound has a great choral program, you-"
"That's why I'm applying, Ms. Pillsbury. It's not the programs I'm concerned about, it's the people I'm worried about leaving."
"Artie?" Emma should have stopped herself before saying that, but found her self thinking aloud.
"Yeah," Tina said, looking down at her biker glove covered hands, with which she was fiddling. "He's going to UC Berkley. He always talks about how he doesn't know what he would do with out me and stuff, and now he's going to be on his own and I-"
"You're worried about him? So, it's not the people you're leaving behind, it's the person you're leaving on his own?"
"Now that you say it that way… yes, I am."
"Tina, you can't let your high school sweetheart hold you back on your dreams. I mean, look where it got Mr. Shuster."