"When is Christian coming over?" I ask Penny as I grab my things that I still needed for school.

I told everyone about me being valedictorian, and they were happy for me.

"You will already be at school, so no worries sis I got this." she says and I nod my head.

"Well I love you, and I'll see you later on." I tell her grabbing my stuff and leaving out the door.

I've been on edge lately because everyone is getting acceptance letters, and I still haven't gotten mines. Finals were long over and in my opinion I aced it with no real struggle.

What if I don't get in? What if James doesn't get in?

"Princess, what's wrong?" I immediately recognize that voice anywhere so I look up to see the love of my life standing in front of his car.

"Just nerves I guess." I tell him sighing as I walk over to him.

"About what?" he asks completly oblivious as he snakes his arms around my waist.

"Columbia." I tell him looking anywhere except at him as he continues to hold onto me.

"Baby, look at me." he says a little above a whisper.

"What?" I ask looking up at him with a slight frown on my face.

"Princessa, you are going to get in no one in their right mind would pass up the offer to have you in there school. You are the smartest person I know so just relax baby." he tells me looking into my eyes as he pulls me into a much needed hug.

"Thank you mi amor." I say to him wrapping my arms around his waist.

"Anything for you; now let's get to school before we're late." he says losing his grip on me before he kisses my forehead.

"Baby, I don't want to go." I say as he pulls away from me going to the passenger side of the car.

"Get in the car Chloe." he says sternly  opening the car door.

"No sir." I say turning on my heel playfully.

I really don't want to go, but it wouldn't be right to skip so near to the end of the school year. I just fell like if I have a few more minutes with him without any interruptions I can get through the day.

"I will pick you up and put you in this car if I have to." he says and I get help the laugh that makes it out of my mouth.

"You do that." I say chunking up the deuce as I walk in the opposite direction of the car.

"Baby, stop senior ditch day is coming up just wait till then to skip please." he pleads and I shake my head no turning around to face him

"I thought you were a badboy." I say accusingly and he smiles like he knows what I'm doing.

He doesn't say anything he just walks over to me with a smirk on his handsome face.

This is one of the reasons why I love him. He is playful and childish, but serious when needed.

"This is your last warning princess." James says once he is close enough to me.

I don't say anything I just hold out my arms waiting for him to pick me up. He looks at me for a few seconds then grabs my waist lifting me up.

Once I'm up high enough I wrap my legs around his waist and arms around his neck so I don't fall.

"You know we are going to be late?" he asks packing me to the car like a baby.

"Yeah I don't care as long as I'm with you." I say giving him a wide smile.

"I love you babygirl." he tells me looking at my brown orbs then lips.

I knew he wanted to kiss, but was refraining from doing it so we won't be late to school.

"I love you more James." I say crashing my lips onto his.

He immediately responded to it by moving his plump lips along mine. We were in the parking lot of my sister's complex swapping spit.

The way he was holding me may give  people the impression that we were about to do the deed.

I didn't want to stop his lips from being on mine, but I knew I had to before we were really late. Plus I couldn't breath to well.

"You shouldn't have did that princess." he says putting me down and I loo at him confused.

"Why not?" I ask trying to understand why he would say that.

Was it not good? He just said he loves me, so what was the problem?

"Look down." he whispers so only I could hear.

I look down to see a bulge in his pants, and all I could do was laugh.

"Aww I'm sorry love." I say with a faint smile as his face was now red.

"Let's just got to school before we both are in trouble." he says back walking towards his car getting in.

I hope he isn't actually mad because that would suck. I just want him to be nothing but happy.

"J, I don't want you to be upset I didn't know." I say getting in the car buckling my seat belt.

"I'm not upset Chloe just a little frustrated that's all." he says pulling out of the parking space and onto the street.

I still felt a bit guilty for what valence and I guess he sensed that.

"Princess, it's nothing to worry about I promise you. You have done nothing wrong." he says grabbing a hold of my hand with his free one.

"Okay," I say squeezing his hand.

We just rode to school in silence, and once we got there so many people were in groups looking at a piece if paper that held the answer to there futures.

"Have you gotten any letters yet?" I ask James as he parks his car.

"A few." he says unblucking his seat belt and I mirror his actions.

"I haven't gotten any." I tell him getting anxious.

"Did you go to check at your mom's?" he asks and that's when it clicks.

"Oh my gosh I'm so dumb." I say feeling a bit relieved.

"We can go after school as of right now we have three minutes left to get to class." he says hopping out of the car and so do I.

"Go to class J; I'll see you later." I say giving him a quick peck on the cheek.

"Okay later princess." he says running to his class like I run into a ice cream parlor.

I started walking in to my first period hoping I received a few acceptance letters in the mail.

School went by in a blur. Every senior were either sad, happy or nervous. I'm one of the nervous ones because I had yet to receive anything, and James hasn't told me about the letters he recieved. Did he get or not?

"Let's go before you overheat." James calls out once he comes out of the school building.

"What are you talking about its not even hot out here?" I ask him beyond confused at this point.

"It was a joke like computers overheat when they are working too hard." he explains and I tried so hard not to laugh at his corny joke.

"That was so funny I forgot to fall off my dinosaur." I say quoting the movie Stepbrothers making James and I laugh.

"Oh hush and get in the car I can tell you're dying to know if Columbia sent you a letter." he says getting in his car starting it up.

"Did you get a letter from Columbia?" I ask him as I got into the car putting my safety restraint on.

"Yeah." he says not sounding to happy making me shift uncomfortably in my seat.

"What did it day?" I ask him swallowing the lump in my throat hoping it's not what I think it is.

"I didn't get in love." he says pulling out of the student parking lot heading down the street.

"This is not real." I say to myself as tears begin to form in my eyes.

This can't happen I'm supposed to be with him right? Amgoing to lose him? How could they do this? He is so smart, so it makes no sense why he wouldn't get in. We can make this work couldn't we?

Wait, what if I didn't get in? My dreams would be crushed I don't know if I could recover from that.

The car soon came to a stop unlike like my negative thoughts.

"Princess?" James asks so softly I almost didn't hear him.

"Yeah?" I ask looking at him with hooded eyes.

I wipe my face to see that we were at my mother's house.

"Go get the mail." he says pointing to the mailbox.

I got out his car nervously. I wanted to know what my future would be like if I got into Columbia. Then I thought about what my life would be like without James in it, and I didn't like it one bit.

I open the mailbox to see that there was a letter from Harvard, NYU and Columbia.

I grabbed all three of them and tore open Harvard to see I didn't get in. I wasn't that upset about it, so I went to the next one.

Dear student,

On behalf of NYU alumni we would like to congratulate you. You have been accepted into New York University...

I couldn't wait any longer I ripped open the envelope to Columbia University.

I pulled out the sheet of paper and began to read. I couldn't help the scream that came from my mouth and tears that fell from my eyes. I got in; I can't believe it.

"I got in." I whispered wiping the tears coming from my eyes.

I look up to see James staring at me with a smile on his face and a paper in his hand.

"I did too." he says and I look at him confused.

"What do you mean?" I ask him hoping I'm not just imagining it.

"I got into Columbia University." he says coming a bit closer to me as my jaw drops.

I snatched the paper out of hands and began to read and screamed when I seen it did in fact say congratulations.

"You jerk!" I yell hitting him a bit as he laughs.

"I hate to see you sad, but I just wanted to know how you really felt about me." he says and I hit him again.

"That's not fair; you shouldn't play like that." I tell him and he smiles that contagious smile.

"You shouldn't cry my love." he says wiping the tears that were on my face and I lean into his touch.

"How could I not when I believed I was going to be without the guy I love?" I ask him and he smiles showing off the dimple on his cheek that I noticed not too long ago.

"Would you not love me if we weren't going to the same school?." he asks bringing his hands off my face and I frown.

"How could you say that?" I ask not believing that he would think such a thing.

"You are so beautiful that any would want to be with you, and if I wasn't around as often many guys would try to steal you from me. I can't stand the thought of someone else being with you. If I lost you I wouldn't know what to do. You're my dream come true, and I dont want to wake up and realize it isn't re-real. I lo-love you a lot I know we haven't been dating a long time, but I know I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my days with you. I just wanted to see if it was the same for you. I'm sor-sorry." he says to me with a few tears falling down his face.

"It's okay baby, but I would never do that to you. You don't have to question if I truly love you or not because I do. I'm there for you for better or worse through thick and thin. My love for you has grown over the time we have been together, and I don't think that will ever go away. Don't think I don't love you or care about you because I do more than you know." I tell him wiping the tears that fell from his eyes.

"I love you too." he tells me wiping his face on the sleeve of his jacket.

"Eww you nasty J." I say scrunching up my face and he laughs.

"But you love me anyway." he says and I nod my head standing on my tippy toes to kiss his cheek.

"I do now let's go tell the world that we are going to college." I tell him and he laughs taking a hold of my hand as we begin our journey.

Now I truly feel in my heart that we won't just be highschool sweethearts, but longtime lovers.