Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 24: Humble Beginnings

EMMA's POV 

We arrived at lan's family home, but we had to sneak ourselves in so we wouldn't wake up his mom.  I didn’t know much about lan and his family, he didn’t talk about them often.

All I knew was that his dad had passed away in a car accident and her mom never got remarried.

He also had a younger sister who was still in college.

 The house was a lovely two story white brick building.

The living room was filled with all sorts of pictures and memories of lan’s childhood, and I couldn't get enough of it.

lan was so, so adorable.

He played little league when he was 10, and there were pictures of him and his family when he was young scattered everywhere.

Weirdly enough, there weren't any pictures of him as a teenager though.

"Come here,"lan whispered, motioning for me to follow him up the stairs.

We made it to the second floor and he went into the first room up the stairs.I couldn't believe my eyes as I stepped inside the room.It was lan’s childhood bedroom.

There were posters of bands on the wall, his old comic books scattered on the desk, and a lot of art sketches everywhere.

I felt like I was meeting sixteen-year-old lan.

"I would have cleaned the room if I knew you were coming,"he joked as he watched my expression.

"This is fine.It’s great,"I said as I took note of all the books on his shelves.

"I can sleep on the couch if you want,"he motioned for the bed.

It was a queen-sized bed, big enough for two.So I quickly shook my head.

"You can sleep here too, if you want,"He didn't say anything but he nodded his head a little.

"I'll find you something to change,"he said as he turned for the dresser.

He pulled out a black t-shirt with The Ramones logo on it and handed it to me.

"Will this do?"he asked.

"Sure, thanks,"I said as I took the shirt.

He then raided the bottom drawer for some boxer shorts and handed one to me.

"Sorry, it’s all I got,"

"No worries,"

I paused for a beat before asking, "Uh, bathroom?"

He pointed to the en-suite door and I made my way inside.

It was funny.

lan had seen me naked before, but I was feeling embarrassed to change in front of him.  Why am I so nervous? After putting his t-shirt on me, I couldn't help but smile at my reflection.

I love seeing his oversized shirt draped on my body and I love that I could smell his scent with every breath I took.

When I finished changing and I cleaned up a bit, I opened the door and found lan already on the bed.

He was shirtless, he wore nothing but some joggers that hung low on his hips.

His toned and muscular body was leaning against the headboard and my eyes scanned the tattoos covering his arm and chest.

"You alright there?"he said suddenly, causing me to blush and look away.

"You're not gonna wear a shirt?"I asked

"My shirt looks better on you,"he smirked in reply.

Oh gosh, I’m a goner, aren't I? 

here,"he patted the empty space next to

made my way over and as soon as I climbed onto the bed, lan pulled

back was to his chest and

long, soft kiss on the top of my head, and I could only close my eyes as he felt absolutely

my eyes, I was facing his bare chest and I

it but I never got a

mean? Cogito

I am.It's a Latin quote

for you? I mean, it must mean something, you had it tattooed across

and it’s already late.I don’t know if you wanna

all the time in the world...or at least, six more hours,"I

"Okay..."

18 or 19.I thought about ending it all.But then, the fact that I was thinking at all about my existence tells me that I exist.And as long as I keep having questions and thinking about my existence, I can have a reason to keep living.So I got this tattoo as a reminder to keep thinking

his past, he

year old lan,

stupid.It's whatever,"he said and turned his

think that’s really deep,"I said quickly, using my hand I reached for his face and turned it back to me,

around today

he heard my response.And

hand reached for my chin and he rubbed his thumb gently on my

"Llove you, Emma,"

mind went blank for a

never knew how four little words could hold

chest felt warm and big and butterflies were flying

from smiling even

"I love you too, lan Hayes,"  The next thing I knew, his lips found

times before already, but

like our souls were finally freed

time, just

loved running my fingers on

kissing the sweet spot on

for each other and we wanted to make sure that we're making

made love that

love’ because now I

was different from just having sex because we both knew it came from a

sight of the sun rising behind

eyes open for

a long time, we lay facing each other but none of

were tired but we didn’t want to blink and

sweetest thing that I had

the sun was already high

looked for signs of lan’s body next to mine, but there was

the room—I was completely

could hear the sound of my phone

and I almost choked on

missed calls and messages all

still going

them everything was fine and

shared my location with them and they were on their

my phone away

of lan’s shirt, but I didn’t wanna take it off,

my jeans and kept his t-shirt

so it wouldn't be too baggy

called out

walked out instinctively and found him

already dressed, wearing a plain white shirt

come I didn’t hear it? "lan, why didn’t

I scrambled to

stealing your

"Keep it,"he

you, you look so tired.And I was hoping you’d miss the time and stay for another day.Shameless of

told, I was hoping

understand the

around a little longer.My mom really wants to

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