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? 

empty

as soon as I climbed onto the

chest and

soft kiss on the top of my head, and I

eyes, I was facing his bare chest and I noted

it but I never got a

mean? Cogito Ergo Sum?"I

am.It's a Latin

must mean something, you had it tattooed across your

story and it’s already

have all the time in the world...or at least,

"Okay..."

around 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

his past, he always said

at the thought of eighteen year old lan, alone in this room, contemplating

and turned his face

really deep,"I said quickly, using my hand I reached for

you're still around today to tell

curved up his face as he heard my response.And

and he rubbed his thumb gently on

"Llove you, Emma,"

blank for a split

knew

and

from smiling even when I

to look up at him and say, "I love you too, lan Hayes,"  The next thing I knew, his lips found mine

many times before already, but this kiss right now felt

finally freed after being in cages for so

longest time, just savoring each other through touches

my fingers on his chest and

sweet spot on my neck

other and we wanted to make sure that

love that

words ‘ made love’

sex because we both knew it came from a place of love and

sight of the sun rising behind lan’s

couldn't keep my eyes open for

facing each other but

didn’t want to blink and miss

sweetest thing that I had ever experienced

I opened my eyes next, the sun was

next to

the room—I was completely alone

hear the sound of my

the bed and grabbed the vibrating device, and I almost choked on air as I saw the time, it was 9.35

of missed calls and messages all

if we were still going to

up and told them everything was fine and that we were still

my location with them and they were on their way to pick me

our little regroup, I put my phone away and went to the en-suite

shirt, but I didn’t

my jeans and kept his

the shirt together so it wouldn't be too

called out from

walked out instinctively and

wearing a

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

scrambled to get my

stealing your

  "Keep

didn’t wanna wake you, you look so tired.And I was hoping you’d miss the time and stay for another day.Shameless of me.I know,"I smiled

be told, I was hoping

understand

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