Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMaA’s POV

"Girl, where have you been? I feel like I haven't seen you in weeks!"Tiff exclaimed dramatically.

Normally I would call her out for being a drama queen, but she wasn’t completely wrong this time.

Yes, I had been MIA, missing in action, for the past couple of days and I tell my friends where I went.

Not unless I wanted to be interrogated by the FBI.

‘Because yes, I was spending a lot of time with Mr.Hayes —I mean, lan.

"Sorry, I’m just a little busy with...my art portfolio,"I said as I closed my lockers shut.

The last period bell hand rang, but my friends had stopped me before I could leave school premises.

"That thing’s not due until the end of the school year.We still have, like eight months,"Carrie argued.

"I know, but I’ve been feeling very inspired lately.I wanna make sure I got a kickass portfolio, I might even use it for my college application,"

This part wasn't a lie.Spending a lot of time with my art teacher had its benefits.

Any free time I had in school, I'd spend it in the art studio working on my...craft.

After school hours, when I wasn’t in swim practice or cheerleading, I'd head over to lan’s apartment and we'd make more...art.

“Okay,"Tiff eyed me cautiously, 

"You do seem surprisingly happy.You're not hiding anything from us, are you? ‘Cause the last time we saw you was during the dance ar(d you didn't seem so well—"

"That was in the past," I cut her off quickly.

"After the dance, I did some soul searching and now I’ve completely turned over a new leaf,"  Tiff and Carrie exchanged a look before studying my face even further, trying to detect if I was lying."Guys, I'm serious.I'm so over Zach already and I just wanna work on myself for now.Believe me,"

I said reassuringly.

"Well, okay, in that case, I know you don’t have swim or cheerleading today.What do you say we head to the mall?"Carrie asked.

"Oh...actually, I can’t.I promised my mom I'd help her run some errands,"

I paused and noted the disappointed faces of my friends, "But we can hang out on the weekend?"

"Alright, it's a date.Don’t bail on us," Tiff and Carrie agreed finally.

"Absolutely.Now I gotta go.My, uh, mom’s waiting.See you guys"

I waved my hands quickly and disappeared out of the door in a flash.

School was over for the day and I couldn't be more excited. lan had invited me over to his place and he was going to make dinner.It still felt surreal to call him by that name.

I found myself blushing every time I said it out loud.I needed to work on that.

I arrived at his door at exactly 7 PM.

I was wearing my yellow summer dress, even though it was definitely fall, but I just wanted to look cute.

He opened the door and greeted me with his gorgeous mega-watt smile, that smile alone could send me into puddles.

He kissed my cheek, ushered me in, and took my coat.

I noticed as soon

said as he hanged my coat on the rack and proceeded

instinctively.  "I like evérything you

replied, "I'm biased

my response and went to set the food

player was playing smooth jazz and a candle

and a bottle of grape juice I assumed he got

juice? How romantic,"I rolled my eyes

chair nearby

complied and took

sat across from and started pouring

me, I can

waiting for him to pour the wine, but he

barely handle

his glass and said,

I raised my grape

and I must admit, lan

was enjoying myself, but I noticed

I was eating,

"Everything okay?"I asked.

"So, how’s school?"he asked.

at

and noted

gonna ask me

shrugged, "School is just school, I mean you

what

mean? You're being so formal

moment before continuing,"I just wanna

wasI being a bit too serious and I felt

on my lip, I cocked my head to

skip dinner

a funny comeback, but he said nothing this time.His gaze was still deadly serious.I decided to come

scolded, his tone

"What?"

to the floor and I let out an irritated

I do

want to talk to you, okay? Get to know you a little bit,"he said as he reached for my hand, caressing

need it 7

and gentle, and it took me

my fourth time in his apartment and I never saw him

flirty, and

side of him?

want us to last,"he said again and I felt my heart just

I breathed, "We can talk.What do you wanna

I don’t know,"his hand went to rake his lush jet-black hair, "Like, what's your favorite music or

really bad at small

deep

never done this before,"he

what? Talk to girls?"I asked in

beat before saying,

eyes widened as I gaped at him, waiting

never met anyone I wanted to get