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.

happy face on him

not sitting

Tik Tok? Ugh! We

her eyes dramatically and made sure Brad was

was a one time

called out, but

her eyes darted to Tyler, who was

knew what she meant by that

you poor thing.Come on, you can sit with me,"Tiff

"This trip's gonna suck,"

as she followed Tiff to

shared a look and I shrugged

grinned as he pulled out a bag of

but smile at his obsession with

walking and found an empty seat in the

in first and I got

waiting for everyone else to

and

me the second one and said, "Want some

please,"I gladly took the ear pod from

hours drive away and it would be dreadful if we didn’t have

played a song and the intro

this The Weeknd?"I

Lights, yup,"he said and nodded his

were both singing and jamming our heads

was hilarious

like that?"I

I haven’t seen you smile like this in a

you

jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your sadness

was shocked that Tyler

doing a great job

Carrie didn't even call me out on

after the accident...I lost a part of myself

a

of the guy? Because

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

souls are made of,

little

was engraved in my

I fully believed that.

hollow and no matter what I did, I could never fill the

because it was a painful reminder every time I saw it

myself to

I kept it with

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

really

after studying my face

him a sad

in my eyes

months now, and I refused

was supposed

supposed to be

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

"Hear, hear,"

a gummy worm at me

it or something, I'm always

the sweetest

I’m not,"he stifled

gonna be so

blue eyes

a soft sigh, Tyler then took my hand in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by

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

but there were

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

I always have.

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