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Scholarship Troubles, Needing A New Way To Pay For University
Jaydes POV
Today at school there is a senior assembly. This assembly was going to be about the future. In this assembly we are going to learn all about university life and other thing related to high school graduation. I was sitting with my best friends Coco and Channel. Both of them are going to Syracuse university with me. We are getting dorm rooms right next to each other. Coco and Channel will share one room and I will have my own.
After the assembly I asked Coco and Channel if they had heard about what scholarships they were getting. They both said that they heard about what scholarships they were getting last week. I told them that I had not heard about any of the scholarships that I applied for yet. They told me to wait a few more days and if I still had not heard to ask my parents because I could have gotten something in the mail and they just forget to give it to me.
The assembly was on Monday and today it was Friday at the end of the school day. I still had not heard back from any of the scholarships that I applied for. I had worked really hard on them and some of them I even had to write essays for. I was on my way home and I was going to have to ask my parents tonight. When I got home both of my parents look liked they were in the middle of discussing something. What ever it was they did not want me to hear because as soon as they heard me walk in they stopped talking about whatever it was that they were talking about
"How was your day at school today?" Dad asked me
"Good." I replied back
"Are you excited about graduating soon?" Mom asked me
"Yes oh and by the way have you heard back from any of the scholarships yet?" I asked
"Actually we need to talk to you about that." Dad said
"So did you hear back yet?" I asked
"Yes we did but unfortunately you did not get any of them." Mom said
"When did you find this out because Coco and Chanel found out that they were getting scholarships like over a week ago." I said
"We revived the letters at the beginning of the week." Dad said
"Then why did you wait days to tell me?" I asked
"Your dad and I had to figure out the best way to tell you." Mom said
"Are you going to pay me to go to Syracuse because I already accepted admission as soon as I found out that I got in." I said
"You know that with our current financial situation we can't do that for you." Dad told me
"Well then how am I supposed to pay for it? The $1,000 dorm room deposit is due next week." I asked
"You are going to have to use the $1,000 that you got for that book to pay for it." Mom told me
"I can't because I have already spent it on new cloths and things for my dorm room." I said
"We will pay it then but you have to get a job and pay us back." Dad told me
"Dad you are being so unfair." I yelled to him
"Watch your attitude Jayde." Dad yelled back at me
"Mom can I just ask Ezra for it." I said
"If you want to but he will most likely say no." Mom told me
"Well I will not know what he is going to say until I ask him so I have to give it a try." I said
"You really should consider going to community college for two years and then transferring to Syracuse university because it will save you a lot of money. That's what I did. I was able to reapply for scholarships after I had my associates degree." Dad told me
"Well that is not what I want to do." I yelled at dad
"Go upstairs to your room right now." Dad yelled to me
"No, you never were a good father to me." I yelled back
"Well I am tired of this nasty attitude that you are only directing toward me and not your mom so if you will not go up to your room then you need to leave this house and come back only if you are ready to apologize to me." Dad said still yelling at me
"Mom you can not let him do this. He is my step father so technically mom you can not let him do this." I said
"A family is made out of love. It does not matter that I am not related to you by blood. I still love you the same as I love Leo." Dad yelled
"Well you sure do not treat me the same as Leo." I yelled to dad
"What is that supposed to mean?" Mom questioned me
"When ever Leo gets in trouble dad just has a father son talk with him but when I am in trouble it is this huge yelling match and it always ends in him threatening to kick me out of the house." I said to mom
"He is not going to kick you out forever. He just wants you to go outside and think about your behavior and then come back in when you are ready to say you are sorry. So go get some fresh air and comeback in a little while and apologize to both of us." Mom said
Just then I see Leo standing in the corner of the room. He must have took the bus home from school today and he most likely witnessed the whole conversation. I did what dad wanted me to do and I went outside. I walk around the neighborhood until I got to the park. It was only a small park but it had a baseball diamond, a tennis court, a childrens playground, a few benches, and a small walking path. I sat down at a bench and pulled out my cell phone. I called Ezra and he answered almost right away. We have been seeing each other about once a month.
"Hello." He said
"Hi." I said
"What is wrong? It sounds like you are crying." He said
"My dad kicked me out of the house." I said
"What happened?" He asked
"We got into a huge fight and he told me to leave." I said
"Does your mom know?" He asked
"Yes she was witness to the whole thing." I said
"Where are you? I can come pick you up." He said
"I am at that park that I took you to last week when I saw you." I said
"Give me an hour to get there but I am on my way." He said
"Okay, bye." I said
Then we both hung up our phones. I know that my dad did not actually kick me out but I did not want to face him tonight. While I was waiting for Ezra to pick me up I just sat there thinking. He came and picked me up and when we got in his car and he took me to his house one hour away from mine. He told me that Maggie was still at work and Katie was at her high school Getting ready for the school play that opens tonight. After Malcolm finished university he moved to New York with his fiance so he was no longer living at home.
"Do you want to tell me what this fight was about?" He asked
"The scholarships that I applied to I did not receive and since my parents can not afford to send me to Syracuse university I have to find a way to pay for it myself." I said
"I can give you some money if you want. It will make up for me not being in your life for the past 18 years." He said
"It would help me a lot if you give me some money but you have nothing to make up for." I said
"Yes I do, Its my fault that you never knew who you real father was for 18 years." He said
"How is it your fault because I thought that my mom never told you that she was pregnant." I said
"She never told me but I let things get in the way of my relationship with your mother way back then and she broke up with me because I was hiding things from her." He said
"Just like she kept me from knowing about you for 18 years." I said
"Well this was a lot different. You know that I am 7 years older then your mom but what you do not know was how we met. I was her 11th grade english teacher and that is when we met and fell in love. Back when I was in high school I was dating Maggie. We had been dating for a few years and then she told me that she was pregnant. We we both in our senior year at the time. I told her that we were still in high school and I did not want the responsibility of raising a child. I broke up with her and she told me that she was going to get an abortion. She never got the abortion and ended up keeping Malcolm. I went to Hollis college and I had no idea that she had him. When I was in college I met your moms friend Alison and she pretended to be 18 even though she was only around 15 at the time. I was 21 at the time so we dated when I thought she was 18. By the time I found out her real age I had just graduated from Hollis. I told her that I cared for her and I was upset that she lied to me but I wanted to make things work. A few months latter at the end of that summer she had gone missing. I was heartbroken so I did some travailing for a year. I even stared to write a book about Ali. Then I came back when I got a teaching job at Rosewood High School. That is when I met your mother. I knew all about her because Ali told me about all her friends. We started dating in secret. Eventually her parents found out. They were not happy with the fact that she was dating her teacher. Eventually they turned around and Aria told me that they told her that love is love and you can not help who you fall in love with. Aria was know in her senior year but I was still her teacher because I was assigned to a new grade that year. Then Maggie came back when Malcolm was seven. She told me that she had the kid and she decided after seven years that she wanted to be a family. Aria broke up with me because she thought I was cheating on her with Maggie. After she broke up with me I started writing the book about Ali again. By now everyone thought she was dead. It turns out that she was still alive and just hiding out. We got back together after I confessed my love for her and told her that I only wanted to be with her and that I had do be a dad to Malcolm but Maggie meant nothing to me anymore. Then she found out about the book and that I knew Ali and all of her friends before we met. She told me that our relationship was over for good with no chance of ever getting back together. I moved to Washington with Maggie and we got back together. Two years later we got married and then we eventually moved back to Pennsylvania after we had Katie. I had not talked to or seen your mom at all until the first time that I meet you." He told me the whole long story
"I am sorry that you and my mom could never work things out but she is really happy know with my dad." I said
"We have know each other for several months know and we seem to really bond so if you are okay feel comfortable with it I would not mind if you started to refer to me as your dad." He said
"Jake is still my dad though even if I am not biological related to him. I know that we get into a lot of fights but he raised me for 18 years. Leo is there for me like a full sibling even though we are only half siblings."
"So do Malcolm and Katie even mean anything to you?" Ezra asked looking kind of upset
" They do but I do not even know them as well as I know you." I said
"Does that mean that you consider them as your half siblings?" Ezra asked me
"Yes I just want to get to know them a little better." I said
Then we ate dinner together and he asked me to come to Katies play with him. He told me that Maggie was supposed to meet him their and he had an extra ticket because Malcolm was supposed to come in for the weekend to see the play but his plans got changed. I told him that I would like to go to the play. He told me that Katie was in Camp Rock The Musical and she was the lead singer. I told him that I really like both Camp Rock 1 and 2. Knowing that she was playing the same character that Demi Lovato played in he movies I was really excited to see it. I told him that I knew the words to most of the Camp Rock songs and to some of Demis own personal songs as well. I told him how I liked to sing and that I was in choir back when I was in Elementary and Middle school. The only reason that I did not take choir in High school was because it would not fit in my schedule with all the other classes I was taking.
We went to the play and it was really great. After the play I noticed that I had several voice mails and text messages from my parents. I texted my mom back and Told her that I was with Ezra. Since it was getting late Ezra asked me to spend the night at his house. I told him that my parents were worried about me and wanted me to come home so he called my mom and asked her if it was okay for me to spend the night. She said it was fine for me to spend the night if Ezra brought me back home in the morning. I went back to his house with Maggie and Katie. Katie gave me some pajamas of hers that just so happen to fit. I went to bed trying not to worry about facing my parents the next day.
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