Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA’s POV : 

"Will you marry me?"his words were ringing in my ear.

I was watching his expression, making sure that this was real and that he wasn't joking.

When I realized that this was, in fact, very real indeed, I asked him, "lan, what are you doing?"

He looked up at me with a puzzled look and said, "I'm asking you to marry me,"

He said it as if it was the most natural thing in the world.Like it was so obvious.

That made me flinch and I pulled my hand away in response.

"lan, you're the one that broke up with me,"

I stated matter-of-factly.

"You made me believe everything was over, and here I was, saying my goodbyes to you, and all of a sudden you asked me to marry you?"

"Yeah,"he said simply.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

I almost shouted.

"I know it’s sudden, but I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.We don’t have to get married right away, it’s more of a symbolic thing,"he tried to explain, but his explanation made no sense to me.

"What in the effing hell, lan?"I yelled.

"What?"

he got up to his feet and an irritated look was splashed across his face.

"Are you bipolar or something? What is this? What in the hell is going on?"

I was absolutely thrown off course.

I felt like I was being Punk'd and Ashton Kutcher would pop out with a camera from behind the couch.

"Do you not wanna marry me?"he spat.

"What?"

"Are you in love with someone else? That kid Tyler?"

"What?!"my voice was seriously high pitched this time.

"Is that why you’re hesitating?"he asked again.

"lan, please stop talking,"I said with both hands raised in the air.

"Tyler has nothing to do with this.

You can’t keep doing things like this to me, okay? You broke up with me, you were the one that left me and said we weren't gonna work out, but now all of a sudden, this?"

"Emma...I..."that struck a chord in him, he couldn't bring himself to continue.

"Oh my God, lan! You're so dumb, you're doing it all wrong!"suddenly we heard a voice coming from the bedroom.

I whipped my head around and a familiar looking girl was standing at the doorframe.

"Hailey?"I gasped.

"Hailey, what the hell? I thought you left!" lan yelled.

"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on here?" I said again.

brother.His way of going about this

and said, "I can’t leave until I know you'd get her back.And thank god

don't need

to me, completely tuning out her brother,

you go was the worst thing he’s ever done.He’s been carrying that ring ever since Valentine's Day, he wanted to propose to you then.He told me about your accident and he thought it was all his fault.He thought he was bringing pain and misery into your life.He thought staying away would be the best thing for everyone but it just ate him up on the inside.This is his way of telling you that’s made a dumb choice.So please, just take a deep

me all this, I caught a glimpse of lan’s eyes and

true?"I said to

"What?"he asked.

realized that you've made

thought it was a wise choice at the

"What changed?"I asked.

of time now.You're gonna leave and you'll forget all about me.And to live

took a step back and I was watching lan’s full

he was also being absolutely honest

the lan that I had hoped to see much

vulnerable with me, not even

to tell you,"he said again, pausing

love you and care about you.I don't know what the future will be like for the

future together...that word struck a chord in me.We had a plan for that.That was all I ever wanted.But then he broke my heart and my dreams went down the drain.It

too much.I came over here with my mind all made up that I was gonna say

stammering all over the place, "I'm

his eyes when he heard me, but then he nodded his head in agreement and said,

awkward being

this was just a crazy dream and I would wake up to my mom screaming for breakfast

standing somewhere

front of me with

I was staring

go,"I said finally and turned to my

and

"But..."

want it, you can give it to me

to get out of there as soon as

took the box from

the door, lan spoke

one more time and gave Hailey and lan

"Goodnight,"

lan’s apartment, I drove straight

time I got there, the

the senior kids were in attendance, and they

party ever,

not

pulled Tiff and Carrie away from the crowd of partying seniors as soon as I spotted them inside the

their hands, filled to the brim with

busy moving the keg with a bunch of guys, so this was the perfect moment to steal Carrie

over

"What?!"Tiff yelled louder.

me, it's an

looked around and there were too many people near us, so I pulled them both all the

of the house to the front yard, and we kept walking until

it?"they asked

for me

I’m waiting for Nick, he says he’s gonna

another look around and

crossed their arms at me, waiting

"Guys..."

velvet box from my jeans

jaws dropped in an

they were waiting for me to continue or say something like I was

nodded my head firmly,