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.

didn’t have a happy face on

you're not sitting

girls on Tik Tok?

eyes dramatically and made sure Brad was

was a

out, but

and her eyes darted to Tyler, who was standing next to

meant by

thing.Come on, you can sit

"This trip's gonna suck,"

she followed Tiff to

look and I shrugged at him, "Wanna

this with?"he grinned as he pulled out a bag of gummy

help but smile at

kept walking and found an empty seat in

first and I got

were still waiting for everyone else to pile on

ear pods and stuck one of them in his

offered me the second one

please,"I gladly took the ear pod

a couple of hours drive away and it would

and

The

and nodded

singing and jamming our heads to the

and it was hilarious to hear.I couldn't stop

at me like that?"I said when my laughter died

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

you talking

were still around us and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding

Tyler had said

was doing a great

even call me out

lost a

after a while

the guy? Because

part of myself that I lost and I can never get

souls are made of, yours and mine

words were engraved in that little heart

was engraved

I fully believed that.

hollow and no matter what I did, I could never

painful reminder every time

couldn't bring myself to

with me in

I go, and when the time was right, one day I would let

really

studying my face for

gave him

in my eyes again

now, and I refused to let that happen

supposed

was supposed to be the

and said, "But hey, it’s over and I’m ready

"Hear, hear,"

raised a gummy worm at me and we

it or something,

seriously the

I’m not,"he stifled

are, honestly.Some day, a girl's gonna

his warm blue eyes and

took my hand in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this

way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed you at the dance without even thinking

there were no words that

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

I always have.

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