Chapter 1: Chapter 1

My name is Sophia Carpenter and I'm 17, soon I'll be 18 and I'm so happy. I'm finally coming of age, I could pass my license and have a car. I could finally do what I have always been forbidden to do on the pretext that I am a minor. I'm so happy I want to cry.

I am not a spoiled and capricious girl even if my mother has always done everything to give me what I asked for. Whether it's the latest hot phone model, or the latest fashionable trends. I had to be at the forefront of fashion in everything related to young trends.

My life was perfect, I was in my last year of high school, where I was twice crowned beauty queen, I have lots of friends, I am popular and I have good grades. Oh yes on the love side, I have a boyfriend, the captain of the high school American football team, with whom we decided to move on when I turn 18. I'm so ecstatic just thinking about it.

In short, I am living a dream. Oh yes apart from my high school life I also have a virtual life. I am a very followed influencer on Instagram and I have hundreds of thousands of followers. I earn a small amount of money with my videos and I can say that I am a celebrity in my own right.

To say that I love my life.

On the family side, I live with my mother, I grew up in a single-parent household and I never knew who my father was, except for a photo of him lying around. My mother tells me that he died before I was born and other than that I don't know anything else about him.

I don't know the other members of my paternal family let alone the maternal one to believe that the two fell from the sky.

The only person I have on this earth, well, is my mother.

I'm not going to complain about my life at this level since, as I repeat, I find it perfect. I will celebrate my birthday the day of the prom night and my teenage life will be complete and this in the best way. Who knows, I will still be crowned beauty queen for the third time.

That would be so awesome, the best birthday present.

It's a morning like any other and I'm awaiting the results of my application for admission to the university of my dreams, I want to become a hostess and travel the world in the company of celebrities and businessmen hotties, I'm nervous but I also know that I worked hard all through high school to build a solid case for college.

Model student both in grades and behavior, it is not possible that I am not taken. In a week I say goodbye to high school so there is no question that I will not be taken in this university.

My best friend Stacy would make fun of me too much. She asked me to submit my file to several universities but I decided to put all my eggs in one basket, make or break.

If I can't go to this university then I won't go to any. Even if mom makes a big deal out of it.

I'm just not going to continue my studies.

I sighed as I got up from my bed deciding to go check the mail, they said they would send me their reply today and it kept me awake all night. I smelled the good smell of toasted toast and my stomach started to gurgle. It was not the time to be hungry, I was too worried.

I pulled my tired body out of bed and dragged it to the bathroom. I locked myself inside taking a shower and a few minutes later I was in uniform.

Why did I still have to go to high school when there was only one week left before the end of the year? It annoys me.

I found my mother preparing breakfast and I smiled.

Ah, this woman then, I adore her.

She is so attentive to me and I wonder why despite the years she had not remarried.

Yet a very beautiful woman, and still very young. She has never had a boyfriend and seems to have no life but me. She must have really liked my father I think.

_ Hello sweetie, did you sleep well?

I sat down in my chair and pulled my plate of toast in front of me attacking without waiting.

_ Hmmm hmmm

She smiled before shaking her head.

_ We don't talk with our mouths full... To see your face, you must have been worried about your admission... But I'm afraid I have bad news.

I stopped my face falling in spite. So I was not taken.

_ It's not true... What a bad luck....

My mother looked at me before shaking her head.

_ No sweetie it's not that...

She looks nervous and even guilty as she takes a seat next to me and holds my hands.

_ I wanted to tell you for a long time but I was always afraid of your reaction...

I raised an eyebrow, what is she going to tell me that she's not my mother or some bullshit like that?

_ My darling, you won't be able to go to university. I obviously received the note from the university for which you applied, the response is favorable but I am afraid that you cannot go.

I frowned, what is my mother talking about again?

_ If it's for the money don't worry I have huge savings I can pay for my studies myself and...

_ It's not because of the money... Sophia, you just can't go because I can't afford it. The reason is....

I got up annoyed not wanting to listen to a single word before leaving the table.

_ Sophia wait, where are you going?

_ in high school you can't see it? Listen mom, I don't want to hear anything else, I've decided to go to college and no matter what you say I'll stick with it.

_ No wait Sophia I have to talk to you wait you can't go to high school... Sophia...

I slammed the door and headed for the school without looking back.

I would never have thought that I would regret this gesture all my life.