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.

for a few

"Hey, you,"

said over the

and fine, I

heard about? You're not attending parent

"Nope,"he said simply.

"Why?"I asked.

an archaic

when you can

joking, but I

on,"I pressed on.He sighed and paused for a beat before

Fine.

because I don’t know what I'll do if I

about

don't wanna do this over the phone.Will you

tell

"Every little detail,"

see you in a

putting my phone away, I made

going on and on

her face but Carrie watched him as if he

heard? The art

change of

"He is?"

Tiff pretended to gasp.

for two years but suddenly he just wants to

such a

I asked cautiously.

"For his career? Yeah,"

most obvious thing in the world, "My theory is that it's probably because of

"What do you mean?"

again, afraid that he

right? She probably

and Carrie let

I wasn't relieved, I was

on one date!

nudged my elbow to stop me from

and said,

It's NYU! Let’s go check it

little bit

quickly and led me

"Thanks for that,"

I whispered to her.

happening? Is Mr.Hayes

"I think so,"

did

"Of us.Yeah,"I sighed.

a moment before saying, "He must really

I really like

hey, at least this

said with

little talk, Tiff and I went around looking at

I should be thinking about colleges, but I couldn't help but be reminded of

to sacrifice so much..."I

to

wanted him to have

had to give up teaching, his job, his career...all for a

would that even be worth

the college fair and parent teacher conferences, I told my parents

making way to

lan was still in his normal sleeping clothes,

on and it looked like he had been sending a bunch

me with a quick kiss on my

a bunch of

"It's alright,"he shrugged.

trailed and paced

pretended to play

"lan, what's going on?"

‘Why did you ditch parent

parents.But not

my arms and raised my

does that even mean? "I'm serious

I’m serious about us.

future with

saying, "But if your parents meet me now as your teacher and someday we tell them that we're dating, how do

That would be confusing.

a good

meet my parents

I asked cautiously.

caller, whatever

I couldn't

towards me

up

mine and he coaxed me into

was off

What’s with that

pulled away slightly and

thinking about this all day

About that word ‘sacrifice’.

you quitting your job, throwing away your career

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