The
Stress That Is Ellie
Ellie realises that she is about to be going to a place that could
drastically change her future - also known as St Brendans Sixth Form College.
She is terrified, petrified even, but with a hint of excitement at the thrill
of the unknown. This could be a new start and for her to make new friends. It
should be one of the best times of her life.
However, there’s is one problem. How is she going to handle the stress
of college life? Essays on top of essays, stress after stress after stress.
And on top of all of that, she has to go home to her, loves to
embarrass at any chance they get, parents, her perfect in every way little
sister and just annoying older brother. Sure, they are normally pretty great to
be around but when pressured with tons of homework, their mix of attitudes
doesn’t exactly help her.
All she wants to do is sit down with a big tub of ‘Ben and Jerry’s
Phish Food Ice cream’ and watch countless episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Nonetheless
she can’t do that for the rest of her life
Questions start to form in her head and anxiety starts to build. What
if no one likes her? What if her old friends abandon her and she’s left on her
own for the next two years of her life? What if her taste in music and
questionable fashion choices damages her social life? What if she doesn’t have
a social life to begin with? What if her deficiency of height at a minuscule
4’10” is a problem and she can’t reach anything? What if she gets lost on the
bus and can’t find her way back?
What if the clumsy gene she shares with her brother and gained from her
mother, causes her embarrassment through the two extensive and dreaded years of
college?
As she considers all of these disastrous questions she feels what can
only be described as ‘pee in your pants terrified.’
Is she going to succeed in College?
Will embarrassment and cringe-worthiness take over her existence as
usual?
Will life do what it has a tendency of doing and throw plane crashing
sized problems her way?
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