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

you're not sitting

messaging girls on Tik Tok? Ugh! We are

rolled her eyes dramatically and made

a one

out, but Maddie

her eyes darted

what she meant by that and I nodded

you poor thing.Come on, you

"This trip's gonna suck,"

as she followed

look and I shrugged at him,

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

at his obsession

kept walking and found an empty seat in

I got

waiting for everyone else to

out his ear pods and stuck one of them in his

second one and said,

the

around a couple of hours drive away and it would be dreadful if we didn’t

song and

The

said and nodded

both singing and jamming our heads to

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

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

saying, "It’s just that I haven’t seen you smile like

are you talking

and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your sadness behind all that.But this laugh

that Tyler

I was doing a great job at faking

call me out on it, but Tyler

accident...I lost a part of myself and I couldn't get it

said after a while of

guy? Because you guys broke

yeah.He was a part of myself that I lost and I can

made of, yours and mine

engraved in that little

engraved in

I fully believed that.

and no matter what I did, I could never

because it was a painful reminder every time I saw

couldn't bring myself to

kept it with me in my

me everywhere I go, and when the time was

really

studying my face for some time."Yeah.I really

gave him

my eyes again and I felt

months now,

was supposed

was supposed to be the start of

hey, it’s over and I’m ready to

"Hear, hear,"

worm at me and we cheered with the

to talk about it or something, I'm always here

seriously the sweetest guy

I’m not,"he stifled

day, a girl's gonna be so

me with his warm blue eyes and I felt

was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared at him as our hands

I kissed you at the dance without even thinking about it,"Tyler said,

to speak, but there were no words that

for a moment and took a deep breath,

I always have.

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