Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 56: Senior Week 

EMMA’s POV : 

My days went by in a flash.

I found out that pushing my feelings away and pretending like they don’t exist worked best for me at the moment.

Fake it ‘til you make it, they said.

So for the past month, I walked through life pretending like I didn’t have a crack in my heart the size of a mountain.

I laughed at every joke I heard.

I smiled at everyone.

I threw away any thoughts of lan and I spent all my time with my friends and family.

Some nights, I learned to cook with mom or I would watch the games on TV with dad.

If there was a blessing in disguise from our breakup, it was that I could get closer to the people that truly love me.

I appreciated my quirky, awesome two best friends more than I ever could.

They had been with me through the ups and downs and they always got my back.

I appreciated Tyler a lot more too, because although we weren't that close before, he was always genuinely nice to me.

We still sneaked out every free fifth period we got to get chicken sandwiches at Chick-fill-A.

Before I knew it, the month of May came around and it was Senior Week.

It was always the tradition for seniors every year to go on a senior trip to the beach.

After all our hard work with the SATs and college apps, the seniors got a chance to spend a couple of days away from school in Tybee Island, Georgia.

The school rented a couple of buses and a hotel for us, and as the weather was getting warmer, we were all excited to hit the ocean and have bonfires at night.

I was absolutely ecstatic about this trip.

This meant that I didn't have to be in school for the next 3 days.

It was 3 days free of lan Hayes.

Not having to see his face would really help me in my efforts to move on from him.

I was also excited to spend some time at the beach with my friends.

Tiff, Carrie, and I went to the mall the other day and got cute matching bikinis.

Mark was plotting up ways to sneak alcohol into the trip, and if he succeeds, this trip was gonna be epic.

On top of all that, Tyler told me about the lighthouse on North Beach, apparently it was Georgia's tallest and oldest lighthouse.

We were both kinda geeky about historical stuff like that, and we promised each other we would go there.

Things were looking up for me.

I had a spring in my step as I piled onto the bus with my friends.

All the senior kids were either high or just plain happy.

The excitement level on the air was through the roof.

Carrie immediately got a seat with Mark, so I thought I would sit next to Tiff.

Nick didn't go to our school, so he wasn't a part of this trip.

But before Tiff and I could grab our seats, someone pulled her from behind.

"Hey! I need one of you to sit with me!"

Madison, captain of the cheer team, squeaked.

She was the only senior that didn’t look happy on this bus.

Behind her sat Brad, the school’s star quarterback who was also her boyfriend.

a happy face

sitting with Brad?"I asked

girls on Tik Tok? Ugh!

eyes dramatically and made sure Brad was hearing

a one time

but Maddie ignored

eyes darted to Tyler, who was standing next to

knew what she meant by that and

poor thing.Come on, you

"This trip's gonna suck,"

she followed Tiff

a look and I

I share this with?"he grinned as he pulled out a

at his obsession

found an empty

in first and I got the

were still waiting for everyone else to

took out his ear pods and stuck one of

then offered me the second one

gladly took the

and it would be dreadful if we didn’t have

played a song and the intro

The

said and nodded his

both singing and

trip right.Tyler was purposefully singing off-key and it was hilarious to hear.I couldn't stop

you looking at me like that?"I said when my

moment before saying, "It’s just that I haven’t seen you

you

our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your sadness

that Tyler had

was doing a

Carrie didn't even call me out

were kinda hard for me after the accident...I lost a part of myself and

said after a while of

because of the guy? Because you guys broke

that I lost and I can never

of, yours and mine

engraved in that little heart locket that

was engraved in

I fully believed that.

my heart felt hollow and no matter what I

necklace because it was a painful reminder every time I saw it hanging

couldn't bring myself

it with me

went with me everywhere I go, and when the time was right, one day I would let it

really like him,

studying my face for some time."Yeah.I

him

my eyes

over lan for months now, and

was supposed

be the start

myself together and said, "But hey, it’s over and I’m ready to move on.Starting with this trip.It's

"Hear, hear,"

at me

if you ever need to talk about it or something,

seriously the sweetest

I’m not,"he

honestly.Some day, a girl's gonna be so damn lucky to have

blue eyes and I felt how

our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared

I kissed you at the dance

to speak, but there

paused for a moment and took a deep breath, saying, "I

I always have.

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