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.

finally she let us

walked me outside where Tiff and

a little wave

his collar and gave him a

said as his

and sister are

They think the same of

"How'd you know?"

me. When I was telling them about

tell them about

amazing girl and I'm head over heels for you.But...life got in the way

they say

I shouldn't let life get in the way and do everything I can to make this work between

a stupid reason,"I muttered

never doing that again,"he said

had the most gorgeous smile and I was sad that

as I

miss you too.I'll be back in Georgia after

for a moment to count

I'll

He nodded and said,

"See you at school,"

that, he leaned down and

long, gentle, tender

my fingers ran

by pulling me even

knew we weren't gonna see each other for a while,

had to ruin the moment, of

honking and cheering like

middle finger up in the middle of the kiss to

laughed, but he refused to break

out of breaths, we pulled away and stared deeply

let out a sigh as I stood on my tippy toes and kissed his cheek one last time, before turning to

sat

but my friends joined

Hayes!"

shut up

at them and the car speeded

mom and sister wouldn't

"So..."

as the car

"So?"

pretended to play

"Tell us everything!"

she demanded.

"Every little detail!"

Carrie followed.

"Okay, well, basically...

I

I exclaimed.

my

I knew it! I knew you'd

done it

as I linked my arms to both my friends who were in

happen? What did

hour drive.We want

it back to Georgia by 11

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

that case,

in

fell asleep with our screens still

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

most of my days in the

with my parents, had my friends over for a

fun of the guy or girl who stays home every night doing nothing, but

had a blast chatting

was New Year's Eve and everyone was

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

you don’t wanna come with us?"mom knocked on

dress and dad

dad’s New Year's

Years with dad’s colleagues, no offense,"I

it wasn’t for your mom, I wouldn't wanna

and Carrie aren't

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

shared

a little

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

and chill.If you need

back a little after midnight,"dad

you go,