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 she let us

and Carrie were waiting

a little wave and

him by his collar and gave him a kiss on the cheek. 

he said as his body

mom and sister are amazing by

think the

"How'd you know?"

me. When I was

you tell them

over heels for you.But...life got

they say

back.They were saying that I shouldn't let life get in the way and do everything I can to make this work between us.Of course, they don't actually know

stupid reason,"I muttered

that again,"he said

I was sad that I had to

I linked my arms around

back in

a moment to count

guess I'll

He nodded and said,

"See you at school,"

and pulled

gentle, tender

my fingers ran through

responded by pulling me even closer and

for a while, so

stupid friends had to ruin the

and cheering

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

laughed, but he

out of breaths, we pulled away and stared deeply into

sigh as I stood on my tippy toes and kissed his cheek one

sat in

waving back at him, but my friends joined in

Hayes!"

shut up

them and the car speeded away

sister wouldn't think too much of

"So..."

as the car turned a

"So?"

to

"Tell us everything!"

she demanded.

"Every little detail!"

Carrie followed.

"Okay, well, basically...

I are

I exclaimed.

my

it! I knew

done it

said as I linked my arms to both my

What did he

a twelve hour drive.We want to

back to Georgia by 11 PM

a thing and I was just glad that they weren't one of those weird parents

in that case,

stayed in

talk until we fell asleep with our

wait a week for him to return, but

my days in

my parents, had my friends over for a sleepover, and I talked to lan

every night doing nothing, but that was only because lan Hayes wasn’t their

a blast chatting

it was New Year's Eve and everyone was out an about celebrating, I

rather stay in my room, watch TV, and hear another one of

wanna come with us?"mom knocked on my door

dress and dad was

to dad’s New

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

wasn’t for your mom, I wouldn't wanna

aren't coming

to a party at Madison's.I don't feel like going, I’m just gonna stay here

shared

even a

like that.I’m totally fine.I just wanna

here and chill.If you need anything,

be back a little

you go, you