Future =/

Lately I've been wondering what the big deal about grades was. I've been slacking a lot and I honestly just haven't cared as much as I used to. I keep getting the same score on my ACT and that is really beginning to frustrate me. I had decided that I wasn't really going to care about grades anymore and I was going to focus on getting at least B's. I wasn't ready for the bomb that my parents dropped on me today. We were eating Subway and all of a sudden my mom looked at me and asked, "Would you like to trade your old car in for a new one?" I was confused and asked her what exactly she was talking about. She said that they would give me a nice new car, whatever I wanted, if I could get a ridiculously good scholarship to college. That means that I have to improve my ACT score by a lot and get as many A's as possible. Right now I have a GPA of 3.97. My mom said that it has to stay that way and I don't know if I can do that. It looks like I have a rough road ahead of me, but if I work hard I will have a new car to drive on the real roads with.