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
you're not sitting with Brad?"I asked
girls on Tik Tok? Ugh! We are so
rolled her eyes dramatically and made sure Brad
was a one time
called out, but Maddie
me a look and her eyes darted to Tyler, who was standing next
knew what she meant by that and I nodded my
you poor thing.Come on, you can sit with me,"Tiff
"This trip's gonna suck,"
she followed Tiff to an
I shared a look and I shrugged
share this with?"he grinned as he pulled
at his
kept walking and found an empty seat in the back
me in first and I got the seat
waiting for everyone else to pile on the
ear pods and stuck one of
me the second
please,"I gladly took the
couple of hours drive away and it would be dreadful if we didn’t
played a song and the intro sounded
this The
said and nodded his
and
off-key and it was hilarious to hear.I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud.Tyler smiled and he gave me this look that I
like that?"I said when my
saying, "It’s just that I haven’t
you
the accident, you kinda...changed.You were still around us and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like
that Tyler had said
doing a great job at
call me out
kinda hard for me after the accident...I lost a part of myself and I couldn't get it
after a
because of the guy? Because you guys
part of myself that I lost and I can never get
of, yours and mine are the
engraved in that little
engraved in my
I fully believed that.
my heart felt hollow and no matter what I did, I could never fill the
stopped wearing the necklace because it was a painful reminder every time I
couldn't bring myself to
with me in
the time was
really like him,
said after studying my face for some time."Yeah.I really
him
pooling in my eyes again and I felt
months now, and I refused
supposed to
was supposed to be the start
pulled myself together and said, "But hey, it’s over
"Hear, hear,"
a gummy worm at me and we cheered with the
ever need to talk about it or something, I'm always here for you, Emma,"he said
the
I’m not,"he
girl's gonna be so damn lucky
looking at me with his warm blue eyes
his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared at him as
wrong way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed you at the dance
but there were no words that
okay?"he paused for a moment and
I always have.
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