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.

victoriously and finally she let

Tiff and Carrie were waiting in

little wave and he

I quickly pulled him by his collar and gave him a kiss on the cheek.  "Thanks for letting me stay the

as his

sister are amazing by the

the same of

"How'd you know?"

me. When I was telling them about

tell

heels for you.But...life got in the way and

did they

the way and 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

stupid reason,"I muttered

never doing that again,"he

I was sad that

as I linked my arms

too.I'll be back in Georgia after the

paused for a moment

I'll see

He nodded and said,

"See you at school,"

that, he leaned down and pulled me

gentle, tender

him back as my fingers

by pulling me even closer and deepened the

other for

to

honking and cheering

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

smiled and laughed, but

we pulled away and

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

as I sat in the backseat of the

at him, but my friends joined in on

Hayes!"

just shut

at them and the car speeded away the next

his mom and sister wouldn't think too

"So..."

as

"So?"

pretended to

"Tell us everything!"

she demanded.

"Every little detail!"

Carrie followed.

"Okay, well, basically...

and I are back

I exclaimed.

 "Oh my god,

I knew it! I knew you'd pull

have done it without you

I linked my arms to both my

What did he

twelve hour drive.We want

it back to Georgia

glad that they weren't one of those weird parents that would check the mileage in their

that case, I

and I stayed in touch over

we'd talk until we fell asleep with our screens still on the

him to return, but a week

most of my days in

over for a sleepover, and I talked to lan

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

had a blast chatting

was New Year's Eve and everyone was out

my room, watch TV,

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

wearing her long black dress and dad was

were going to dad’s New Year's Eve office

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

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

Carrie aren't

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

and dad shared a

even a little

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

you stay here and chill.If you

back a little after

sure.Off you