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

outside where Tiff and Carrie

friends gave lan a little wave and

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

as

sister are amazing by the

They think the same of you

"How'd you know?"

me. When I was

tell them about

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

they say

life get in 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 things in the first

stupid reason,"I muttered

I'm never doing that again,"he said

and I was sad that

as I linked my

you too.I'll be back in Georgia after the New

moment to count the

I'll

He nodded and said,

"See you at school,"

he leaned down and pulled me in for

gentle,

my fingers ran

by pulling me even closer

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

friends had to

honking and cheering

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

just smiled and laughed, but

after we were all out of breaths, we pulled away and stared deeply into each other's

toes and

goodbye as I sat in the backseat

waving at me and I was waving back at him, but my friends joined in on the waving and yelled, "See you at

Hayes!"

just shut up

rolled my eyes dramatically at them and the car speeded

mom and sister wouldn't think too much

"So..."

said as soon as the car turned a

"So?"

to play

"Tell us everything!"

she demanded.

"Every little detail!"

Carrie followed.

"Okay, well, basically...

and I are

I exclaimed.

 "Oh my

knew it! I

done it

linked my arms to both my friends who

did it happen? What did

twelve hour drive.We want to know

to make it back to

one of those weird parents that would check the mileage in their daughter's car every

that case,

I stayed in touch

talk until we fell asleep with our screens

return, but a week

my days in

had my friends over for a

every night doing nothing, but that was only because

a blast

and everyone was out an about celebrating,

room, watch TV,

wanna come with us?"mom knocked on my door for the tenth

wearing her long black dress

dad’s New Year's Eve

don’t want to spend the New Years with dad’s colleagues, no offense,"I nodded to dad and

wasn’t for your mom, I wouldn't

Carrie aren't

at Madison's.I don't feel like

dad shared a worried

even a

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

chill.If you need

be back a little after midnight,"dad

sure.Off you go, you