Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA's POV 

I ended up chatting and staying longer than I should.

Hailey and Kirsten were such a joy to be around with.

I learned so much about lan and his childhood within ten minutes of talking to them, more than I ever did our entire relationship.

I learned lan was always gifted in the arts, at three years old he would color the entire living room wall with crayons, and at thirteen he would color the neighborhood's wall in spray paint.

Apparently, he used to get into a lot of trouble, like all boys would, according to Kirsten.

lan was mostly silent as us girls continued talking about him.

Kirsten mentioned that he was a talented kid all around, not just in the arts.

He also played soccer and baseball and oh he rocked the cutest Justin Bieber hairstyle growing up.  I made up my mind to steal some of his childhood photos.

They're a national treasure!  I also heard some things about lan’s dad.

From what I gathered, he was a very stand up guy, an all American dad.

He used to play baseball with lan as a kid, but when he died, lan stopped playing sports altogether.

His dad died at such a young age due to a car accident when lan was just sixteen.

lan looked extremely uncomfortable around the topic of his dad, so I didn’t press too much into it.

I changed the topic to Hailey instead, asking her about college.

"So, I heard you're in college?"

"Yup, sophomore year.I go to Wellesley.Where do you go?"

 "I-uh," my breath was stuck in my throat.

I couldn't possibly say I go to West Lake high school where his brother teaches! I shot a look over at lan for some help.

"She goes to"

"Oh, that’s right!" Hailey cut in,

"You two met in Emory.I forgot. How silly of me," 

"Right..." I nodded my head,

"We met in Emory..." Which was true.

We did meet there. I just didn’t go there.

The rest of our conversation went by without a hitch.

I found out that Hailey was four years younger than lan, which meant she was four years older than me.

She didn’t know that, though.

Somehow I managed to make her believe that we were somewhere around the same age.

After a while of talking, we heard the loud honking outside the house, a signal that my friends were here to pick me up.

I tried to hold off as long as I could because I wanted to keep talking to Kirsten and Hailey, but I knew my time was up when my phone wouldn't stop buzzing.

"Okay, I guess I really have to go now," I sighed and grabbed my things.

"I'll walk you out," lan followed after me.

"Breakfast was amazing, thank you again. And it was very nice to meet you two,"

I smiled at Hailey and Kirsten.

"Same here. I'll give you a call if I'm ever in Georgia,"

Hailey smiled back and I nodded.

"Are you sure we can’t talk you into staying another night?" Kirsten pleaded.

"Oh, I wish I could,"

"Emma has to go, mom,"

lan came to my rescue as we heard the car started honking again.

"Well okay, but next time please stay longer," she said again right before I left the kitchen.

"I will," I replied.

"That means there will be a next time,"

Kirsten said it to me, but her eyes were staring straight at lan, and she winked.

"Of course," he shrugged.

and finally

walked me outside where Tiff and

lan a little wave

and gave him a kiss on the cheek.  "Thanks

as his

mom and sister are amazing

They think the same of

"How'd you know?"

me. When I was telling them about

tell them about

this amazing girl and I'm head over heels for you.But...life

they say

do everything I can to make this work between us.Of course, they don't actually know the whole reason why we had to end

a stupid reason,"I

I'm never doing that again,"he said with a

was sad that I had to leave this gorgeous smile

as I linked my arms around his

you too.I'll be back in

a moment to

guess I'll

He nodded and said,

"See you at school,"

and pulled me in for a

long, gentle, tender

him back as my fingers ran through

me even closer and deepened the

gonna see each other for a while, so we wanted to make

to

were honking and

to put my middle finger up in the middle of the kiss to shut them

and laughed, but he refused to break

after we were all out of breaths, we pulled away

my tippy toes and

I sat

I was waving back at him, but my friends joined

Hayes!"

just shut up and

them and the

hope his mom and sister wouldn't think

"So..."

as soon as

"So?"

to play

"Tell us everything!"

she demanded.

"Every little detail!"

Carrie followed.

"Okay, well, basically...

I

I exclaimed.

 "Oh my god,

I knew it! I

have done it

both my

happen? What did

drive.We want to

it back to Georgia by 11

and I was just glad that they weren't one of those weird parents that would check the mileage in

case, I would

stayed in

fell

wait a week for him to return, but a week could feel like ages when you're in

most of my days in

parents, had my friends over for a sleepover, and

every night doing nothing, but that was only because lan Hayes

blast

and everyone

watch TV,

don’t wanna come with us?"mom knocked on my door for the tenth time

long black dress and dad was wearing

were going to dad’s New

New Years with dad’s colleagues, no offense,"I nodded to

for your mom,

Carrie aren't

going to a party at Madison's.I don't feel like

dad shared a

even a

at me like that.I’m totally

chill.If you need anything,

be back a little

you go, you