Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

IAN's POV : 

"Hayes!"

I heard a voice called out as I stepped out of the art room with my things.School was over for the day and I was about to head home.

"Hey, you joining us tonight?"Sean Hawthorn, the school’s music teacher, jogged over to me.

"Uh…?"I gave him a puzzled.

"First week of school.Some of us are doing guys’ night out.The new guy, Coach Pullman is getting everyone's first round,"

Right.Whenever the teachers at school did social gatherings, I never paid much attention to it.

But, I did read something about this in my email.

"I don’t know,"I shrugged, 

"To be honest, I don’t really know him,"

I was just saying whatever to get Sean off my case.

I wasn't feeling like hanging out with the other teachers at school, because every time I hung out with them, I felt this guilt inside.

I felt like I was betraying my job because I was dating this girl that everyone else called their student.  "He doesn't know that many people.He just started working here.He’s inviting all the guys to come, he wants to make friends,"

Sean was being persistent, he paused for a beat before saying, "And hey, you're single, right? You should come.It's at this bar that just opened downtown.A lot of pretty girls there, I heard,"

Single...all the teachers thought so, of course.That's a good thing I guess.

"Right..."I muttered and sighed,

"Guess I can stop by for a bit,"So here I was, sitting around a table with five other guy teachers from school.

They were around my age and slightly older, late twenties and early thirties.

Still, I couldn't feel so removed.Three of them were already married with kids and one was engaged.

Only the new guy, John Pullman and I were single.

"I need everyone to take a shot.No one’s getting out of this!"

John shouted over the music as he raised a glass.

"Cheers to that!" the other guys chimed in and I played along.

We all downed the shot of whiskey at once.

It was a decent whiskey.

I had my reservations about coming out tonight, but this was changing my mind.I must admit, it felt kind of nice to have some guy friends around.I loved spending time with Emma, let's get that straight.

And though I enjoyed being cooped up with her inside my apartment, but sometimes going out to a bar like this, chilling with some whiskey and friends weren't bad too.

"So, you just moved here, huh?"I said to John.

"Yeah.I used to teach in Atlanta for two years,"he replied.

"Hey, I used to study at Emory.Lived in Atlanta for a couple of years too,"

"Oh, cool, man.Atlanta's awesome!" he beamed and gave me a high five, "But yeah, I needed a fresh start,"

"We could all use some of that," I said and raised another glass.

"Amen to that,"he nodded and drank his drink.

"So, how you like the town?"Sean joined in.

"It's kinda small, but looks alright.The girls are fine though,"

John nudged me to the direction of a group of girls passing by.

"Yeah," I said flatly.

"What, you got a girlfriend?"

"Uh —"

"Nah, this guy's single,"

Sean was quick to answer for me.

"I heard you went out with Erica Diaz last year?" another teacher, James Watson, joined in.

being grilled

all the guy teachers had a

dirty looks from a bunch of them when they found out Erica and I

"The Spanish teacher?"

shoved me playfully,

didn’t work out," I

find someone,

and patted my shoulders before heading to the men’s

comforted for that, thanks

that girl? She’s been checking you out ever since we

this blonde chick was standing with a drink in

me from head to

her eyes, she let out

shook

man.You should totally go for it.What’s

be a pussy.Come

her friend is hot.Dude, we have to get over there.You have to be my

my hair, looking for an excuse to get out

help a guy out," John

was new in town and he really wanted some company.He bought

"Fine,"I sighed finally.

wouldn't hurt just

my drink before standing up, and John and I

noticed that we were walking towards

her lip, sending me this

said when we stood an arm's length

they both said in

up to the bar and ordered some drinks from the

we were waiting for our drinks to be made, John was looking a bit awkward around the girls.I knew I had

your names?" I said to both

Macy," the

her friend said

both.This is my friend, John.He’s new to town," I gestured

"Hi,"he said.

"Hi,"she replied.

from the bartender and handed it to

help him out,

was quick

John were deep into

as the wingman was done, so I was about to go back to my table when the blonde girl stopped

me

gave her a quick,

wasn't getting the

and leaned in, whispering, "You're not a man of many

breathed, pulling away

to talk,"she closed the

up against mine and

a sigh, I held her by her shoulders and pushed her

I have to go,"was all I

didn’t wanna be there.I looked at our table and the guys were chatting

were probably gonna grill me about this girl and I

and I spotted the exit.Guess I could use

out a relieved sigh when I breathed in the fresh air.I looked up to the open sky and I saw the full moon shining

night, but I just wished

my fingers had dialed her

going on tonight.I wasn't expecting

"Hello?"her sweet voice spoke.

like honey.My favorite voice in the world as of right

felt my body calmed instinctively as soon

hear loud music.Where are you?"she

of the guy teachers

okay,"she paused for a moment before saying,

calling you then?"I

should be sad, but actually

pictured her smile and I wished I could

with me, baby

"I miss you too,"

the two of us can be seen out in public.I didn’t wanna think about that, though.It was

a sigh, I

your

up some trash

"Oh yeah?"

goes to West Lake too.We

wasn't trying to

the way the other guys looked at her, they could not