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? 

patted the empty space next

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

back was to his chest and his

my head, and I could only close my eyes as he

I was facing his bare chest and I noted the Latin phrase that

wondered about it but I never got

does this mean? Cogito

am.It's a Latin quote by

what's the meaning for you? I mean, it must mean something, you had it tattooed across your

long story and it’s already late.I don’t know if

at least, six more hours,"I said and he let out

"Okay..."

so hopeless and that life was so pointless.I was 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 a reminder to keep thinking and keep going,"  I didn’t know what to say to

past,

heart was breaking at the thought of eighteen year old lan,

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

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

around today to tell me about

curved up his face as he heard my response.And his smile made

he rubbed

"Llove you, Emma,"

blank for

that at all and I never knew how four little

chest felt warm and big and butterflies were flying

couldn't stop myself from smiling even when

love you too, lan Hayes,"  The next thing I knew, his lips found mine and he kissed me with such tenderness and

many times before already, but this kiss right now felt

freed after being in cages

longest time, just savoring

on his chest

stop kissing the sweet spot on my neck and

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

love that

the words ‘ made love’ because now I finally knew what

different from just having sex because we both knew it came from a place of love and trust

asleep to the sight of the sun rising

my eyes

long time, we lay facing each other

tired but we didn’t want

sweetest thing that I

eyes next, the sun was already high up

body next

and looked around the room—I was

hear the sound of my phone

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

dozens of missed calls and messages all from Tiff

we were still going to drive back today

quickly called them up and told them everything was fine and that we were still going to go according to

they were

phone away and

changing out of lan’s shirt,

I wore my jeans and kept his

together so it

voice called out

out instinctively and found him standing

a plain white shirt and

shower and how come I didn’t hear it? "lan, why didn’t you wake me?

scrambled to get my things

stealing your shirt, by the

"Keep

was hoping you’d miss the time and stay for another day.Shameless of me.I know,"I smiled

be told, I was

understand the

you around a little longer.My mom really wants

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