Last ever results day

billygean ♦ July 21, 2009 ♦ 2 Comments

I sit down in HeadofLawCollege’s office and exhale slightly. I am pretty sure I know that I haven’t just got a pass, but that February’s marks were too low for me to get a distinction overall.

“Let’s see,” he says, bringing my results up on the screen. I feel that familiar stomach swooping results-day feeling that I’m pretty sure only overachievers feel.

“Commercial law, 71, Employment law, 83, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence, 85,” he says. “So – overall – you got a distinction – 74.”

I exhale.

“Okay?” he says, tilting his pink head.

I nod.

“It’s nice,” I say, “to feel – vindicated.”

He pauses. “When I first taught you property in September 07,” he says, “I knew you were a distinction candidate. So really – this is exactly as it should be.”

And I think he might be right.