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.

have a happy face

sitting with

girls on Tik Tok? Ugh! We are so

and made sure Brad was

was a

but

and her eyes darted

she meant by that and

on, you can sit with me,"Tiff offered

"This trip's gonna suck,"

followed Tiff to an

look and I shrugged at him, "Wanna

grinned as he pulled out a bag of gummy worms from his

smile at his obsession with

kept walking and found an empty seat in the back

in first and I got the seat by

still waiting for everyone else

out his ear pods and stuck one of them in his

offered me the second one and

took the ear

a couple of hours drive away and it would

a song and the intro

The

nodded his head

we were both singing and

purposefully singing off-key and it was hilarious to hear.I

looking at me like that?"I said

that I haven’t seen you smile like this

are you talking

since the accident, you kinda...changed.You were still around us and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your sadness behind

shocked that Tyler had

doing a

and Carrie didn't even call me out on it, but

after the accident...I lost a part of myself and I couldn't

a while of

because of the guy? Because

summary, yeah.He was a part of myself that I lost and I can never get

souls are made of, yours

were engraved in that little heart

was engraved

I fully believed that.

matter what I did, I

a painful reminder

I couldn't bring myself to get

kept it with me

everywhere I go, and when the

must really like

after studying my face for some

gave him a

were pooling in my eyes again and

lan for months now, and I refused to let that happen again

was supposed to

to be

hey, it’s over and I’m ready to move on.Starting

"Hear, hear,"

a gummy worm at me and we cheered with the

if you ever need to talk about it or something, I'm always here

the sweetest

I’m not,"he

girl's gonna be so damn

eyes and I felt how genuinely

out a soft sigh, Tyler then took my hand in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared at him as our

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

but there were no words

a moment and took

I always have.

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