Accepted

After Remy created his college application and sent it in, he checked the mail every day, hoping for a letter that would tell him his fate. He decided that if he didn't get in, then he'd just give this whole thing up, let it go, and maybe get to figuring out his future.

It's needless to say, but Remy was really hoping that he would get in.

Until that letter came, Remy would have to get on with his life. He spent the days out with his friends. They had known each other since Freshman year but weren't particularly close. They hung out and stuff, but they didn't really talk about their lives or the problems they had. They had an unspoken rule about keeping out of each other's business. None of them really knew when the rule had appeared, but they knew it nonetheless. There were five of them including Remy, and all they really did was joke around and enjoy each other's company. Their friendship was more a place where they could escape whatever was worrying them. Instead of talking about their problems, they just had the luxury to forget them for a little while. They could just laugh and feel at peace in their little friend group, even if it was just for a few hours.

One July day, the 16th to be exact, Remy and his friends had decided to watch a movie at one of the friend's houses. It was a bad slasher movie that they could all make fun of together. When it was over, Remy drove back to his house. Before heading inside, he checked the mail, as he had every day for the last few weeks. He flipped through it until he saw his name, accompanied by the UB logo.

His heart stopped in a second, and in the next, he was running into the house. He threw the rest of the mail carelessly onto the kitchen counter and tore into the letter.

With wide eyes eagerly scanning the paper, Remy read that he -- after much careful consideration -- had been accepted into the University of Bronxville.

He felt his heart flip and thrash in his chest. Had he really been accepted? He more slowly reread the letter to find that he really, truly had been accepted. He let out a scream of joy, and read the sacred words over and over again, feeling happiness swell inside him as an intense sensation of pride coursed through him. He had done it.

This feeling was a foreign one to him. He had never really felt like this since he was young. He had grown used to being disappointed in himself, and to feeling like he was disappointing others. But now he had done something that might just change that.