It’s the last year of high school for Rose and Adrianna, two best friends who’ve known each other since forever. They can’t believe their high school years are almost over. They’ll have to start thinking about their college applications, their finals and of course, prom and graduation.
Rose was a tall girl with long honey blond hair. She had big blue eyes and was very pretty. Rose was a very shy person, but also very stubborn. Her opinion is what mattered the most. She loved watching old black and white movies and most of all she loved to write. She kept a journal in which she’d write about her thoughts and dreams. She also wrote poems and shorts stories. Her dream job would be working as a journalist for a magazine and of course, she’s always wanted to write a book. Rose’s best friend Adrianna was quite the opposite. She was very outgoing and loud. She loved to be heard and listened to. She was a bit smaller than rose but was still considered as a tall person. She had long light curly brown hair paired up with a set of beautiful green eyes. Adrianna loved arguing, but most of all she loved being right. Later she wants to be a lawyer.
The two girls have been neighbors even before they were born. Since they met they have been inseparable. They had their goals set and in order to achieve their dreams they wanted to attend their dream college, Columbia which was situated in New York. Of course they’d have to move from their home city New Jersey but they had planed it all out already since the start of high school. They would live together in an apartment somewhere in the Upper East Side. They’ve been saving up the money since their first job. They couldn’t wait to move out of their houses and go and explore the world, but of course, they had to convince their parents first. Adrianna’s parents were pretty cool with it, anything to help their girl’s dreams come true. Rose was the one who had to do all the convincing. Her parents wanted her to stay in New Jersey. They told her that she could get a great education at a local college and still be able to achieve her dreams of being a writer. They didn’t see the need to leave the house. Rose was disappointed but she knew that nothing was holding her back here in New Jersey and that she would leave for New York, if she ever got accepted in Columbia that is. She wasn’t about to stay behind and watch Adrianna from a distance accomplishing all these big things.
Senior year was passing by pretty fast. The college applications were sent and so came the time for the interview with the Dean of Admissions of Columbia college. Rose and Adrianna and a few other friends decided to take a road trip on a long week-end to New-York. Rose’s parents agreed on letting her go to the interview but they still hoped she would change her mind and decide to stay in New Jersey.
The interview was stressful for all of them. The Dean was a petite woman in her fifties with some gray strands of hair. She wore glasses and her hair was fashioned in a strict bun. She turned out to be very strict and imposing. The girls could feel that she wanted them to get their answers wrong, she wanted them to flunk the most important interview of their life. But the girls still managed to succeed confidently despite the Dean’s hateful stares. On their way home, all they could think of was the finals approaching.
The acceptance letters finally arrived. Rose got accepted in all her safety colleges but still no letter from Columbia. On the other hand, Adrianna’s letter from Columbia arrived pretty quickly and she was accepted. Rose couldn’t help but worry. What if her letter got lost? What if they completely forgot about her? What if she wasn’t accepted and they decided not to send her any letter at all? Rose will be thinking about that letter night and day. With no answer from Columbia, Rose was resolved to stay in New Jersey and attend a college there. Adrianna suggested that she stays in New Jersey too but Rose couldn’t let her friend make that sacrifice, it was way too big and too important for her. Prom was already long gone and graduation was approaching. Rose was dreading that day because she didn’t want to see all of her friends leave.
After the graduation ceremony, Rose went directly home with her parents, and once there she locked herself in her room and cried. She saw all of her dreams crashing down. In the evening, when she went down stairs to eat supper, her parents said they had something to say to her. The letter from Columbia did come, and she was accepted. They just didn’t want her to find out because they didn’t want her to leave, they were too afraid to lose their precious and only daughter. Rose started crying even more, of anger this time. Her mother got to calm her down and explained that they knew how much Columbia meant for her so they still sent them back a letter saying she was going to attend their college next fall. Rose couldn’t be even happier. She hugged her parents and ran over to Adrianna’s house to tell her the good news. Everything suddenly fell back in place. Her future drew itself quickly in her mind again. She knew what she was going to do and she wasn’t going to have anything stand in her way ever again. She was going to accomplish her dreams. However hard it might be, she was going to do it.
And great job!
