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.

this is crude, but he’s

leave until I know you'd get her back.And thank god I didn't,

need

to me, completely tuning

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

I caught a glimpse of lan’s eyes and I knew she

true?"I

"What?"he asked.

you've made a

a wise choice at the

"What changed?"I asked.

his hair as he said, "Time...time puts things in perspective.I realized we're out of time now.You're gonna leave and you'll forget all about me.And to live in a

step back and I

nervous and scared, but he was also being absolutely

lan that I had hoped to see much earlier

with me, not even when we had that

late or whatever, but I just have to tell you,"he said again, pausing for

don't know what the future will be like for the both of us, but if you give me another

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 was the

here with my mind all made up

"I'm gonna need

when he heard me, but then he nodded his head in agreement and said, "I know

awkward being in that

was just a crazy dream and I would wake

was still standing

me with

staring

said finally

stopped my tracks and handed me

"But..."

you can give it to me then,"he spoke again

wanted to get out of there as soon as I could, so I didn’t think too much

the box from him

door, lan spoke again, "Goodnight,

back one more time and gave Hailey and lan a

"Goodnight,"

apartment, I drove straight to

time I got there, the party

the stereo, all the senior kids

ever, obviously everyone wanted to make it

not believe what

away from the crowd of partying seniors as soon as I spotted

their hands, filled to the brim with some alcohol concoction that

so this was the perfect moment to

yelled over

"What?!"Tiff yelled louder.

it's an

there were too many people near

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

is it?"they asked

for

he says he’s gonna

took another look around and made sure we were completely

Carrie crossed their arms at me, waiting for

"Guys..."

from my jeans pocket and said, "lan

jaws dropped in an

eyes were as wide as saucers and they were waiting

head firmly, making sure they knew it was