Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA’s POV : 

"Who is it?"Carrie asked when she noticed my phone buzzing for the tenth time that day.

lt was a Sunday afternoon and my friends and I were having our weekly Sunday brunch.

I slept all day yesterday because I was so tired after the dance, so I hadn't seen the two of them since prom night and we had a lot of catch up on.

"It's Tyler again.He wants to see me later tonight,"I sighed when I read the text on my phone.I had been dodging his calls and not responding to his texts.

We woke up after cuddling all night long in his dad's cabin and things went kinda awkward.

"So, is it official between you two?"Carrie asked and Tiff eyed me suspiciously.

"Guys, I told you, we're just friends,"

"Honey, friends don’t wander out to the beach at senior trip and fall asleep on each other's arms,"Tiff sassed.

"And don't forget prom night.We walked out to the living room in the morning and saw you two cuddling,"Carrie followed.

"I know,"

"And you said that you two kissed,"Carrie said again.

"Yeah, just that one time, and I stopped it,"

"So, this ship ain't sailing huh?"Tiff asked.

"There’s no ship guys...I really like Tyler, but..."

"Not the way you like lan,"Carrie said knowingly.

"Not even close,"I sighed, pausing for a moment before continuing

"And I know we're over and everything, but still.I can’t just magically make feelings appear,"

I It was sad to admit that even after all this time and my efforts in trying to forget him, I was still in love with lan Hayes.

I thought about him every single day and I dreamt about him every single night.

"So, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna see Ty later?"Tiff asked.

"I don't know.I told him that I felt like leading him on but he said he didn't care,"

"But you do,"Carrie said.

"Yeah, I do care.I can't do that to him.He’s just too good,"

"You're a good friend too, Emma,"

Carrie took my hand and squeezed it gently.

"It just really sucks that I might have to break his heart.I know how that feels like and it is shitty as hell.So now we're just floating around, not sure of what we're doing,"

"You are preaching to the choir, sister,"Tiff sighed dramatically.

Tiff called us up last night and mentioned briefly that Nick and her are on a break.

She said she knew that Nick and her would have to break up eventually because they were going in different directions.

She just didn’t think it was gonna be this soon.

"So, things with you and Nick...?"I asked cautiously.

least have the summer together with him.But after prom night, he told me he’s going to take summer classes and leave in a couple of weeks.He’s gonna be in Austin for college and I’m gonna take a gap year traveling around Europe.We're both terrible at long distance relationships and commitment.It just felt like we're at the end of the rope.There’s nothing else we could

strong when she explained everything, but I could tell she was broken up on

closer to Tiff and gave

really like him,"Carrie

isn't gonna cut it anymore.He said we're too young for something too serious anyway.Maybe

agree with what

again in a couple of

don’t agree with

hate talking about these things,

ignore your feelings and

asked, and how ironic that I asked

guilty of doing

be better to talk

want clarity and

comforting.That last talk I had with lan was a good closure and it allowed me a

I said to Tiff.

This was true.

tried to pretend like I got it all together and it was

I did was lie to myself and

the moment I had that talk with lan on the beach,

each other very much

saying I should talk

I

Nick if...Emma will

Tiff said suddenly.

When did this become

good a thing.Come on, I'll do

me with her best puppy dog

talk to Tyler eventually, but I didn’t think

again, there was no sense in

sooner we pull this Band- Aid away, the sooner the wound could start to

"Fine,"

and Tiff pulled

can come and go,

Carrie drove Tiff over to

stayed at the café and told Tyler to

my friends were about

greeted them cheerfully at the door, but Tiff and Carrie responded with a sorry

subtle

face, Tyler made his way

the chair in front of

"Hey,"

wanted to make sure you were okay.I had the worst hangover all day

cut him as he was rambling.Tyler saw the look on my face

here it comes,"he

"I'm being serious,"

gonna say, you don't have to say it,"he shook

it's not what you wanna hear, but it's gonna give you some closure,"I said as I reached for his hand.He let me held his hand and I squeezed it gently.I just

him a small smile and he

it on me,"he

I don’t like you like

you said that it’s okay and we can take our time, but this isn’t something that we can force.I like you as a friend and I don’t want to

you've memorized that speech,"he stifled a bitter

have written it

and said,

that we take

not even dating and you're breaking up with me?"he was still trying to crack jokes even though his