A/n: Hey! This is my first zaddie, so please don't be too critical. This story is all in Maddie POV. Please R&R!

"Do you want nuts or no nuts?" I said to London, asking what kind of Hershey Bar she wanted.

"The one with the almonds," London insisted. I handed her the candy bar, and she skipped off. I set my head down on the counter, wanting to take a nap. Graduation was only in 2 months, and I was so tired studying for finals. I already did great on my SATS, and I already sent in my college applications for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and even Boston College. Anyday now they were going to come in the mail, but I was too tired to be excited. I put my head up because I saw Zack and Cody coming up to the counter.

"Hey Sweet Thang!" Zack said mischievously and then winked at me. Ever since his 14th birthday, he had grown to be 5'7" and his voice had deepened a little.

"Hey guys." I groaned.

"Did you get any letters from colleges yet?" Cody asked. He was still a nerd, his voice hadn't changed yet, but he was already 5'10.

"Don't remind me." Zack started. "She going to move to some prestine Ivy League university." He finished. His eyes were starting to water. He took his skateboard he was carrying and entered on one of the elevators.

"What's wrong with him?" I asked.

"He's just going to miss his favorite candy counter girl." Cody said.

"He knows this day is going to come though."

"What he's really sad about that you're going to move on to the college life and forget all about us…especially him." Cody answered. Before, I could reply back, he went into one of the elevators, going up to his suite. I sighed, and then my cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey baby!" It was my boyfriend, Jordan. He was the smartest, sweetest, most sensitive, most creative, and nicest guy I ever met. We wanted to go to the same university together, because we didn't want to drift apart.

"Hey you. What's up?" I said while twirling one of my curls dangling on my below my waist.

"I just got my letter from Harvard...and I got in!" He screamed into the phone.

"Oh my god, Jordan, that's amazing!" I beamed.

"Have you gotten your letters yet?" He asked.

"Not one. They should be coming anyday though." Just as I said that, Mr. Moesby came up to me.

"Maddie! Stop gabbing on the phone! By the way, you got a letter, He handed me a medium sized white enveloped, and walked off. I looked at the enveloped. It was from Princeton. I just stared at it wide-eyed.

"Jordan, I'll call you back." I flipped my phone shut. I opened my letter, and I started reading:

Dear Madeline Fitzipatrick,

We are glad you have chosen Princeton University, but we wish to informed that you have

you have been rejected and will not be attending this year's courses at Princeton University.

Thank you for your effort and consideration for Princeton.

The Princeton Administrators

Great. I got rejected to Princeton. I could still get in Yale, better yet Harvard. I also have Boston College to back me up.

"Maddie! Your shift is over! You may go home!" Mr. Moesby shouted, and I put the "closed" name tag on the candy counter. I sighed, just thinking about the day I've had.

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I got home, and I automatically went upstairs to read The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. I have really been in to poetry recently. I was in the middle of "MacBeth" when I started getting hungry. I quietly walked downstairs, and asked my mom what we were having for dinner.

"FISH STEW!" my mom screamed over the sound of the stove. Great, I even going to have a sucky dinner, as I walked upstairs, I swa something on the living room coffee table. I was a bouquet of roses, and there was a card. On the outside, it said, "To Maddie." I opened the card, and it said this:

Shall I compare Maddie to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

XOXO

The only thing was, was that it wasn't signed.