They All Lied when they said life after Rebirth is easy. Even with all the memories of her last life, she could not help herself at all. She wanted to scream in frustration while pulling her hair but she took a deep breath instead and reminded herself to be strong as she could do it!
No, she could not do it. She was failing miserably. Did God forget to revert her luck like her life? Then again, luck was never on her side.
After getting rejected by nine universities, she was sitting with her father in a cafe. He was getting a drink for her to cool net head while she was pondering on her strategy with a heated and malfunctioning head.
In her last life, she had read news on a meme page that a girl who mistakenly ended up rejecting the offer of her dream college went to the same college to sell her intelligence and knowledge to seek admission there. Didn't it sound so interesting and fun?
Dove now realized why meme pages were called meme pages in the first place. She was going to sue them– the bloody sons of capitalists! Of course, Instagram was a product of capitalism and poor people like her were its victims.
In the last three days, she had travelled to nine cities to do the same but she was thrown out of the admission block before she could even tell the administration why they must give her admission there. Oh, all she had to do was add how she 'mistakenly' refused their offer and they would show her the door to the exit. Her father was watching all of it with an amused smile. He no longer loved her the same. She thought this with a pout in her head.
Now, a little defeated and a lot more creative in her head, Dove was drinking a sweet drink bought by her father.
"You are really insistent, aren't you?" Andrew said with a sigh. He had been seeing how his daughter was working hard to get admission into a good university. Her ideas were creative and intelligent but futile as they didn't work. However, he would like to ask her who put these ideas in her head? Wasn't his daughter completely realist and practical? Did he take becoming a new person too literally that she forgot to possess common sense?
"Dad, I am trying, " Dove said.
"Isn't it a common sense that they won't take it back?" Andrew asked her.
"Voltaire said Common sense is not so common, " Dove said and he pursed his lips. These days she had been quoting a lot of philosophers.
"What do you want to be in life, Birdie?" Andrew asked a while later.
"I want to be like Dad when I grow up, " Dove answered without any hesitation. Her father was her moral support. He was someone who would never bear injustice. He would fight for his and others' rights. He always had solutions for problems. He was everything she wanted to be like in her life.
She didn't have to think about the answer as it came out of her heart on its own. In simple words, her father was her role model. He came from a foster home with no family, no money and no name. He waited tables at night and studied during the day. When he became a father at a young age, he didn't throw away the responsibility on the woman, instead raising his daughter all on his own. She still recalled the time when he got his first big job, she was very young. He could not afford daycare for her, he used to bring her with him. She would stay with him all day and see him working hard for both of them. She still didn't remember seeing even a crease of stress and sadness on his face as all he did was finding happiness everywhere around him. She was going to do the same.
Dove hugged his arm and whispered, "You are my role model, Dad."
"Sweet mouth, " Andrew chuckled but his heart melted in a puddle.
"What do you want to study?" Andrew asked her a while later.
"Will you help me?" Dove asked, dazed.