The silent echo of raindrops beating against the cold cement seemed distant. Everyone uniformly stood underneath their black umbrellas in silence with their heads down. Scarlett, with her eyebrows furrowed, stood amongst the sea of black. She helplessly wondered why this was being ignored, cast aside as if it never existed. Jacob was now another headline for the local news, and soon, his story would be tossed in the archives. “I still can’t believe he’s gone,” she thought,.
“Any news on those Ivy’s?”
“No dad, not yet”
“Jacob, you know how much we’re expecting from you, right? You can do this, our dreams can finally come true” Jacob squirmed in his seat and hesitatingly looked away, nodding. He understood what his dad was saying and he knew how crucial his college admission was. He sometimes wished that he wasn’t so smart. Everything he did was mostly to make his parents happy. He didn’t think his parents realized how hard he had worked to make them proud. He just wished his parents wouldn’t be so hard on him cause he was already so stressed out.
Everyday seem to drag by. He couldn’t sleep or eat. He NEEDED to get into this school. It felt like weeks had gone by, till finally, a letter from Columbia University arrived in the mail.
As he slowly opend the envelope and looked at the letter, he read out
loud, “Dear Mr. Jacob Gooding, we are pleased to congratulate you on
your acceptance to Columbia University! We proud to call you a Columbia
Lion Class of 2032!”
After a long, fun summer it was finally time to pack all of his belongings, and head out to college. When he first arrived on the campus, all he could see were extremely, old buildings, surrounded by big lights.
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