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

sitting

Tik Tok? Ugh! We are so

rolled her eyes dramatically and made sure Brad was hearing

was a

called out, but Maddie

a look and her eyes darted to Tyler, who was standing

meant by that

you can

"This trip's gonna suck,"

she followed Tiff to an

a look and I

share this with?"he grinned as he pulled

at his obsession with

kept walking and found an empty seat in

in first and I got the

were still waiting for everyone else to pile

pods and stuck one of them

offered me the second one and said,

please,"I gladly took the ear pod

was around a couple of hours drive away and it would be dreadful if

song and

The Weeknd?"I

and nodded his

long, we were both singing and

exactly the type of music that we needed to start this trip right.Tyler was purposefully singing 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

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

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

you

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 all that.But this laugh just now, this one’s

Tyler had said these

doing a great job at faking

Carrie didn't even call me out on it,

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

said after a

guy? Because you

myself that I lost and

souls are made of, yours

engraved in that little

was engraved in

I fully believed that.

and no matter what I did, I

stopped wearing the necklace because it was a painful reminder every time I saw it

myself to get rid of

I kept it with me in my

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

really

my face for

him a sad

were pooling in my eyes again

months now, and I refused to let that happen again

was supposed to be

supposed to be the start of

quickly, I pulled myself together and said, "But hey, it’s over and I’m

"Hear, hear,"

at me and we cheered with

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

seriously the sweetest guy

I’m not,"he stifled

gonna be

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

our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this

kissed you at the dance without even thinking about it,"Tyler said, and he kept his gaze deep into

there were

with you now, okay?"he paused for a

I always have.

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