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 on

sitting with Brad?"I

messaging girls on Tik Tok?

and

was a

out, but Maddie ignored

her eyes darted to Tyler, who was

by that and I nodded my

you poor thing.Come on, you can sit

"This trip's gonna suck,"

as she followed Tiff to an

I shared a look and I shrugged at

he

help but smile at

walking and found an empty seat in the

first and I got

for everyone else to pile

and stuck

offered me the second one and

the ear pod

of hours drive away and it

a song and

this The

nodded his head to

both singing and jamming our

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

you looking at me like that?"I said when

I haven’t seen you smile like this in

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

thought I was doing a great job at faking

Carrie didn't even call me

kinda hard for me after the accident...I lost a part of myself and

a while

of the guy? Because you guys broke

a part of myself that I lost and I can never get

of, yours and mine

words were engraved in that little heart

engraved

I fully believed that.

felt hollow and no matter

a painful reminder every time I saw it hanging on my

couldn't bring myself to get rid of

I kept it with me in my

when the time was right, one day I

must really like him,

studying my face for some time."Yeah.I really

him a sad

in my eyes again and I

for months now, and I refused to let

was supposed to

was supposed to be the start

and said, "But hey, it’s over and I’m

"Hear, hear,"

at me and we

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

seriously the sweetest guy

not,"he stifled a

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

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

his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared at him as

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

but there

with you now, okay?"he paused for a moment and took a deep breath, saying, "I

I always have.

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