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Ha-ha, you’re right. I think I’ll just try one of the local colleges and see what happens.
Break a leg ??
Our conversation continues until almost four in the ring when I am forced to coal it units, but it feels nice. We got tot talk about our tastes in music and what our parents were like when we were young, which are two people I haven’t even thought about in so long. I haven’t had the courage to reach out to them just yet. It’s easier mending bridges with my bestie than with the people who birthed me because I almost feel I hurt them more. I don’t want to hear their questions or anger at me. Or worse, pain in their voice for ignoring them and pushing them out of my life. I need to just take things slow, especially knowing it may be hard to learn I won’t get everything back I used to have.
I fall asleep quickly knowing that when I wake up I have a job to do – apply for college so I can finally follow the path I was meant to.
***
My phone rings, and I pick it up instantly, having been waiting on a call for a couple of days now. I step out into the main part of the mall, having been browsing the shows just for fun. Natasha is just a few yards away letting Nina play with other kids in an indoor playground. We decided to have a girls day so she would stop watching me pace back and forth and wait to hear the fate of my application to college.
I still can’t believe I did it and that I can be that much closer to a way to provide for myself. I won’t have the kind of money Natasha and Anton have o anything like what I had with Noah, but it will be mine, and I will be helping people learn to follow their dreams to. What better thing can I do for myself than that?
"hello?"
"yes, am I speaking to Bethany Wolf?" Unfortunately, I have not gotten to legally change my last name back yet since the divorce isn’t final, so I shiver a little at the last name. But it’s just one little hiccup.
"yes, this is she."
"Hello Bethany. We understand you have been waiting to see about entrance into our doctorate program to finish out your studies here at Florida Atlantic University. I am pleased to inform you that we have managed to transfer all your credits. You will only need to enroll in tow more classes to complete your degree program. if you wish, we can set up a meeting with financial aid to get that handles for you this week."
"This week/" I can’t help but to be a little overexcited, almost squealing into the phone. I was so certain that many of the credits wouldn’t transfer, but this school has been great from the moment I put in my application, talking me through steps and answering all my questions. I knew in my gut it was the right choice, a nd this just proves it.
"That’s amazing. I can come Thursday night, if that’s alrght?"
I hear the clicking of her keys and hope that means she sis scheduling me in. "I have you down for six in the evening on Thursday. Congratulations, and I hope to see you succeed here at our university."
Thanks so much!" I say before I hang up the phone. I can’t eb happier than this and run straight to Natasha to tell her.
She instantly hugs me and tells me we will be celebrating with a nice dinner tonight, anything I want.
"N, we don’t have to do that."
"Oh yes we do! We have toe celebrate letting you life back on track."
"Okay," I concede. it does feel like something worth celebrating.
I help her gather Nina who is tired but is fighting leaving because she is having so much fun, and we go out to the car to go and tell Anton the good news.
as I sit in the passenger seta listening to Natasha belting out to her favorite tunes on the radio while both the kids pass out in the back, I can’t help but shoot a message to Leon. we have been talking every other day now even if it is only for a few minutes, and he is truly growing on me now that him being in my space is out of the way. he can support me from afar while I get things together on my own terms before we try something more in person. though, he still hasn’t mentioned coming back yet. Well, at least not a specific date. I don’t know if it is because he doesn’t know if he wants to or fi he is just trying to give me that time to be ready for him.
Guess what?
What?
I just got called my the university
And!?
I l=smile to myself, finding the way he is excited for me cute, and I hope it is genuine because this is exactly what I need from a friend, or a man for that matter.
All my credits transferred. I only need two more classes!
I am practically screaming with glee on the inside, and I find it strange that it hits me in that moment I wish he were here to celebrate with.
See! I told you it was a good idea to try. Congratulations! I hope you’re celebrating.
Yes, we are going to have a big dinner at the house. Natasha insists.
