Chapter 4

"Lainey and Emily were determined to get Susan into college. So they came up with a plan."

Susan exited the gym after school and walked down the hallway.

"Susan!" a voice echoed.

Susan looked around and could not see anyone.

"Susan!" the voice echoed again.

"Who's there?" Susan asked.

"I'm the ghost of your great-great grandmother!" the voice echoed. "Go to college! You'll be successful! Go to college!"

Susan walked over to an open door to see Lainey and Emily standing there.

"Seriously?" Susan asked. "How stupid do you think I am?"

"It was her plan," Emily said, pointing at Lainey.

"Look," Lainey said. "You're extremely smart and extremely well at what you do."

"Exactly," Emily said. "I think you'll do really well in college."

"Yeah," Lainey said. "If you do, I guarantee you'll be successful."

"You can't guarantee that," Susan said.

"You won't know unless you try," Emily said.

"So please, Susan," Lainey said. "At least consider college. You can go to the college fair tomorrow and see what options you have."

"Okay," Susan said. "I'll go to the college fair, but I won't make any promises."

"The next day, the college fair kicked off. It was massive. Even news crews came to cover it!"

C.B. walked around and looked in horror at all the colleges that came to the fair. Everywhere he looked, a different college had set up a booth.

"This isn't how it's supposed to be," C.B. said.

Jeff excitedly walked over to C.B. with two sticks of cotton candy.

"Hey, best friend!" Jeff cheered. "Here's some cotton candy."

Jeff handed C.B. some cotton candy.

"Isn't this amazing?" Jeff asked.

"Yeah," C.B. said in a fake sincere tone. "So amazing."

"Maybe next year I can get even more colleges to show up," Jeff said. "Of course, we'll need a bigger venue."

"Uh huh," C.B. said.

"It means so much that you let do the college fair," Jeff said. "I know how important it is to you."

"C.B. finally had enough."

"That's it!" C.B. shouted. "I can't take it anymore!"

"What are you talking about?" Jeff asked.

"I didn't let you plan this!" C.B. shouted. "You just took over! You just assumed that I was asking you to plan this and talked over me! This is my event! Mine! And you ruined it with your impulsiveness!"

"Look," Jeff said.

"No!" C.B. shouted. "You think you can just do whatever you want and I'll be okay with it! Look around, Jeff! This is insane! You have colleges from the sidewalk all the way to the fields!"

"Fine," Jeff said. "You want to be in charge? So be it!"

Jeff angrily stomped off and C.B. looked over to see Wilma with her arms crossed.

"Not cool," Wilma said. "Not cool at all."

"I guess that was kind of mean," C.B. said.

"You think?" Wilma asked.

A young male student walked out of the cafeteria.

"Harvard and Yale are fighting over who has the biggest space again," the student said.

"For the fifth time!" Wilma shouted. "I measured it evenly!"