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.

with beautiful eyes, and we bonded over our

at this bar not too far from my apartment

that I quickly learned was that people were not

and he seemed like a genuine guy on the phone, but as soon as we met that

it wasn’t

naive going into this date thinking that ms

famous for? No, not the French fries, they were

about the French

in France was

an art form, and French people were more than

that French men

French men in the city, but I was talking about their

tended to embrace their feminine side

America, men showing their feminine side

about their love for

being too forward or mushy, they

uninvited tongue down my throat did not scream

yeah, okay, no, sorry, I don't

as I pushed Olivier by

me in confusion as I

"Something wrong?"he asked.

where to begin.I smiled politely at him and

word, I turned to my heels

late at night and I didn’t feel like walking home alone, so I

front of the bar, when suddenly a tall guy in messy

"Tough night, eh?"he greeted.

"Excuse me?"

lent out

I’m good, thank

"You are an American?"

"Yes,"

are

"Georgia originally,"

from Tennessee.Because

"Only ten I see?"

I laughed drily.

we laughed at

a French guy, his English was pretty

"What's your name?"he asked.

"Emma,"

meet you, Emma.I’m Elliott Jacques,"he put his hand out to me and I took

I was about to pull away, however, he held onto

in the

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

of college.I'm on an exchange program,"I said, sounding

mistake.I thought

"Why?"

my

I look at you, everyone else

but

"Are you always this...cheesy?"

You're the one who's made of

"What?"

you're looking Gouda

"Stop!"

my

can keep going all

said,"we both said this joke in

again and we

was a weird moment, like we both

that moment, my Uber pulled up in front of the bar

I

"Wait, before you go,"

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

funny

to respond to that, so I just

on

I hadn't been on a proper date with a guy other than lan since

a date since we mostly

couldn't remember the last time I went

surprisingly a

our first date, we got dinner at this

we were having dinner, I found out that he was actually

and me? Anyway, we took a walk along the river after dinner

he could hold my hand and

nice about a twenty five year old guy asking

and I went to the Carnavalet

got to the garden, so the

lot throughout the day and when I confronted him about it, he calmly responded with, "I keep looking at your because it’s so beautiful and I want to kiss

did kiss

the garden at

a short,

feeling I wouldn't

our third date, we took a day trip to

area with a

a wine tasting in the vineyard and Elliott kept raving about this glass of wine being

if I could try it and he proceeded with kissing me on the lips, parting my

was very

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