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 on

sitting

girls on Tik Tok? Ugh! We

her eyes dramatically and made sure

was a one time

out, but Maddie ignored

look and her eyes darted to

what she meant by that and

poor thing.Come on, you can sit

"This trip's gonna suck,"

announced as she followed Tiff to

shared a look and I shrugged at him, "Wanna be by bus

this with?"he grinned as he

but smile at his obsession with gummy

found an

I got

still waiting for everyone else to pile on

ear pods and stuck

me the second one and

took the ear

drive away and it would be

played a song and the

this The Weeknd?"I

Lights, yup,"he said and nodded

singing and jamming our heads

was exactly the type of music that we needed to start this trip right.Tyler was purposefully singing off-key and it was

me like that?"I said when my laughter

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

you talking

and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your

shocked that Tyler had

a great job at faking

me out on it,

lost a part of

a while

of the guy? Because you guys broke

a part of myself that

are made of, yours and

that little

was engraved

I fully believed that.

no matter

was a painful reminder every time I saw it hanging on

bring myself to get

kept it with

with me everywhere I go, and when the

must really

my face for some time."Yeah.I

gave him a sad

eyes again and

had been crying over lan for months now, and I refused to let that happen

was supposed to be

was supposed to be the start

"But hey, it’s over and I’m ready to

"Hear, hear,"

a gummy worm at me and we cheered

to talk about it or something, I'm always here for you, Emma,"he

Tyler.You're seriously the sweetest guy

not,"he stifled

are, honestly.Some day, a girl's gonna be so damn

at me with his warm blue eyes and I felt how genuinely he truly

in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was

I did things the wrong way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed you at the dance without even thinking about it,"Tyler said, and he kept his gaze deep into my

started to speak, but there were

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

I always have.

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