"So," My eager friend leaned up against the steal locker next to mine. "Did you get in?" She asked as I carefully placed the last of my books in to a bag. I shrugged sadly, not sure why I still haven't had even the tiniest response from my dream camp. "They haven't said anything." My friend, Angelica, wasn't really my BEST friend, she was nice and all, we talked and sat next to each other at lunch, but it was no big deal. Suddenly she perked back up, "Maybe it's just stuck in the mail." I sighed looking like a pessimist. I looked back at all the chattering kids. The buzz of their voices banged against my ears. "Or," I said, "They just don't have the courage to tell me the truth." Angelica rolled her pointy brown eyes, "It doesn't, Sel." She smiled. "Well," I said as the warning bell rang. "I'm gonna miss you Ang." She smiled back, a warm smile. She hugged me tightly and we said our goodbyes.
Two months ago I sent in a essay. It was to one of the most private and elite boarding school and summer camp ever. I wrote fifty pages, even though the average was twenty. It was a small camp, only one house, which held up to ten people. Only ten out of a thousand. I worked, I worked so hard. Two months, two months later, I still haven't gotten a response, not even a 'sorry you are not accepted' thing. So I was stuck. The worry eating me from the inside out. No one has ever graduated being not rich, not famous, and not successful. My only way out was to go there, my only way out from my hard still life.
"Selena." My mom said, standing at the door. Her thin dirty blonde hair sprawled out across her face. She wore her gardening gloves and a striped working shirt. "Um, Hey mom." I said, hoping I didn't do anything wrong. She had a serious look on her face. "Is.. something wrong?" I asked, finding a way to squeeze myself through to the indoors. My mom firmly handed me a letter. I opened the paper letter, my heart thudding. I read the address repeatedly. I couldn't believe it. The paper crinkled in my hand as I ripped the top of the mother's face transformed in to a bright smile. I read and read and read the page again and again. I didn't understanding anything, except for the the three most important words came on to the thin paper. You've been accepted. I almost screamed.