Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 91: Parisian Romance 

EMMA’s POV : For the first time in eight months, I typed his name into a google search.

A few things came up.

There was an article in The New Yorker about the gallery’s grand opening.

The article praised the exhibition, calling it a creative space for international contemporary art lovers.

There was also a picture of lan and Ally, standing together in front of the gallery with Mayor de Blasio.

They were smiling from ear to ear.

They sure made a great looking couple.

That was painful to see.

The article even called them ' the power duo’, New York's hottest art lovers.

I put my phone down and immediately regretted my decision.

I should have never googled an ex.

Ever.

But I was stubborn.

After my friends went back to the States, I was alone in my apartment again and I was forced to deal with my feelings.

There were still a few days left in the holiday, so I had no excuse to be busy with school or the internship.

In my desperate, boredom stage, I ended up googling his name again.

This time, I found Ally’s social media page.

lan had deleted his Instagram profile ages ago, right around when we started dating.

He wanted to keep himself and his activities hidden from the world.

He also never liked the idea of social media in the first place.

But finding Ally’s Instagram page was like finding a land mine.

Her page was filled with pictures of her and lan.

Ian looked...great, of course.

His hair was longer and his jaw was scruffier.

He wore a lot of suits now and he looked amazing in them.

His tattoos would peak out of his collar and I remembered how much I enjoyed running my fingers through his inked skin.

Ugh! I need to stop! We just entered a new year and this year my resolution was to stop pining over my long lost love.

Stalking his girlfriend’s instagram page wasn't gonna help my case.

I threw my stupid phone on the bed groaned into a pillow.

I'm so pathetic! I can’t keep living like this! I have to do something! Suddenly, I was hit with an idea.

I grabbed my phone again and stared blankly at the screen for a few seconds.

Not wanting to overthink things anymore, my finger tapped the screen several times and I got right to work.

This was probably not one of my brightest moments.

I just download Tinder.

For a while, all I did in that app was swipe people.

Swiping left, swiping right, it was just something to entertain myself.

I wasn’t in any mood to find love, especially not on Tinder in a foreign land.

I was just bored, honestly.

And looking at these guys’ faces on my screen was a safe way to remind myself that there are other people out there.

There could still be a future for me after lan Hayes.

Sometimes the guys I matched with would send me messages and they could be flattering.

They were a great confidence boost, and I would leave it at that.

But some days when I got super bored, I ended up replying to their messages.

I didn't think of much of it.

I only downloaded the app for fun anyway.

But after talking to several guys for a few weeks, the idea of meeting one of them seemed enticing.

"I don’t have to marry the guy, I’m just looking for friends,"

I said to myself.

So one day in early March, I agreed to go on a date with this guy, Olivier.

eyes, and

bar not too far

learned

a genuine guy on the phone, but as soon as we met that night, all he wanted to do was to shove his tongue

say, it

too naive going into this date thinking that ms nA

it, what is France famous for?

was talking about

was more

French people were more than willing to indulge in them

noticed that French men

the city, but I

feminine side more openly than guys

showing their feminine side were

about their

about being too forward or mushy, they only

my throat

yeah, okay, no, sorry, I don't think this gonna

pushed

I gathered my

"Something wrong?"he asked.

you have to ask, I don’t even know where to begin.I smiled politely at him

I turned to my heels and walked out of the bar

at night and I didn’t feel like walking home

suddenly a tall guy in messy dirty blonde

"Tough night, eh?"he greeted.

"Excuse me?"

of this,"he lent out a pack of cigarettes to me, and

I’m good,

"You are an American?"

"Yes,"

state are

"Georgia originally,"

from Tennessee.Because

"Only ten I see?"

I laughed drily.

at the lameness

was pretty

"What's your name?"he asked.

"Emma,"

his hand out to

however, he held onto it a second

tension in

being drop-dead gorgeous, what do you for a living?"he said after a

my third year of college.I'm on an exchange program,"I said, sounding as

thought you are a

"Why?"

narrowed my

I look at you,

couldn’t help but

"Are you always this...cheesy?"

You're the one who's made

"What?"

looking Gouda tonight!"he

"Stop!"

my

keep going all night

what she said,"we both said this

and we smiled appreciatively

was a weird moment, like

front of the bar and I

I have to

"Wait, before you go,"

my tracks, pausing for a second before saying, "Don’t tell me if you want me to take you out to dinner.Just smile for

funny yet

respond to that, so I just said, "You're so

the end of that night, I did agree on getting dinner

counting the weird meet-up with Olivier at that bar, I hadn't been on a proper date with a guy other than lan since

as going on a

remember the last time I went out on

surprisingly a

dinner at this romantic restaurant by the

out that he was actually a music

we took a walk along the river after dinner

asked if he could hold my hand and I let

was something so nice about a twenty five year old guy asking to hold my hand instead

the Carnavalet

the time we got to the garden,

was looking at my face a lot throughout the day and when I confronted him about it, he calmly responded with, "I keep looking at your because it’s so

did kiss that

the garden at

was just a short, sweet

I had a feeling I wouldn't forget it that

we took a day trip to Loire

was a beautiful area with a castle, historical towns, vineyards,

and Elliott kept raving about this

me on the lips, parting my mouth open with the

very smooth

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