Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)
Chapter 30: Bright Future
EMMA's POV
"Don't forget to check out Duke, Rice, and Vanderbilt,"
Mom said as we made our way through the booths at the school’s college fair.
"Oh yes, I heard Vanderbilt's got a strong liberal arts program,"
Dad nodded in agreement.
The school’s holding a college fair this Saturday, along with parent teacher conferences.
All the junior students are required, or as they say, encouraged to attend the college fair.
I wasn’t complaining though.
I wanted to spend my precious Saturday looking through colleges all around the country.
The only good thing about it was at least my best friends had to do it too.
I spotted Tiff and Carrie over at the University of Florida’s booth, and I knew what to do next.
"Okay, I got it.You two go meet my teachers and hear about what a great student I am.I’m gonna catch up with Tiff and Carrie,"
I said, waving my parents away.
"I'm really looking forward to meeting your teachers.Especially your AP art teacher, Mr.Hayes,"mom said and I quickly turned back.
"What? Why?"
"You worked so hard on his class.
You spent almost every day after school working on your art portfolio.
He must have nice things to say about you, I wanna hear about it all,"
she said as she turned to her heels towards the art room.
"Oh, you don't have to —"
"The line at Duke is empty.Go, go check out the schools.We'll regroup here in an hour,"
Dad shooed me as he walked off with mom.
My parents are meeting...my boyfriend.
At parent teacher conferences.
Oh crap.
Making my way over to Tiff and Carrie, I sighed dramatically as I pushed past the row of kids.
Tiff and Carrie turned to see me and they immediately knew something was up.
"What's going on?"Carrie asked.
"My parents are meeting Mr.Hayes.I totally forgot about that.I am so screwed,"
"Don't worry about it.I’m sure he can handle your parents just fine,"
Tiff replied.
"Actually, you don’t have to worry at all,"Carrie added, "
My parents went by earlier.
They wanted to see my art teacher too, but he wasn’t there.
Something about a personal emergency.
He’s doing his conferences with parents via email,"
"Oh...that’s very smart of him,"
It was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
"See? He’s a smart guy.He’s handling it,"
Tiff said as she grabbed a few brochures from the University of Florida.
"In the meantime, I think you should check this out," "The University of Florida’s a total party school,"
Mark chimed in suddenly, appearing out of nowhere.
"Hey, babe.Did you see Rice and Duke already?"
Carrie greeted him.
"Yeah, you guys should see it.
Duke has the best engineering program—"
Mark was about to ramble on this topic for the next ten minutes, I could just tell.
"I have to make a call, I'll be right back,"
I said to Tiff and Carrie before slipping away from the crowd.
I found an empty, cozy spot at the end of the hallway and I dialed Ian's number.
few times before he finally picked
"Hey, you,"
said over
sounded healthy and fine, I was
personal emergency that I heard about?
"Nope,"he said simply.
"Why?"I asked.
an archaic
meet in person when you can basically do
if he was joking, but I
on,"I pressed on.He sighed and paused for a beat before finally saying,
Fine.
don’t know what I'll do if I have to
worried about
this over the phone.Will you come
tell me
"Every little detail,"
see you in
putting my phone away, I made my way back to
going on and on about
had a bored look on her face but Carrie watched him as if he was
The art
of topic
"He is?"
Tiff pretended to gasp.
talking about it.Apparently, he signed a contract for
such a
I asked cautiously.
"For his career? Yeah,"
it was the most obvious thing in the world, "My theory is that it's
"What do you mean?"
asked again, afraid that he might be on to
She probably broke his heart
let out
I wasn't relieved,
on one date!
nudged my elbow to stop me from
and said,
It's NYU! Let’s go
exclaimed a little bit too loud
and led me out of
"Thanks for that,"
I whispered to her.
Is
"I think so,"
did it
"Of us.Yeah,"I sighed.
paused for a moment before saying, "He must really
I really like
much, but hey, at least this way you
said with
and I went around
I should be thinking about colleges, but I couldn't help but be reminded of Tiff's words
so much..."I hated
to sacrifice anything
to have everything he ever
job, his career...all
would that even be
and parent teacher conferences, I told my parents I was hanging out with Tiff
I was making way to
normal sleeping clothes, no
on and it looked like he had been sending
day?"he greeted me with
bunch of schools.How
"It's alright,"he shrugged.
paced
pretended to play
"lan, what's going on?"
ditch parent teacher conferences? And why don’t you wanna meet my
parents.But not
my arms and
mean? "I'm
I’m serious about us.
see my future
for a moment before saying, "But if your parents meet me now as your teacher and
That would be confusing.
a
you did it because you didn’t wanna meet my parents as
I asked cautiously.
whatever you wanna call
chuckled and I couldn't
me
chin up
and he coaxed me into a long,
pulled away, he noticed something was off and
it? What’s with
slightly and bit
been thinking about
About that word ‘sacrifice’.
feel about you quitting your job, throwing away your career
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