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

girls on Tik Tok? Ugh! We are

her eyes dramatically and made sure

a one

out, but Maddie

eyes darted to Tyler, who

she meant by that and

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

grinned as he pulled

at

kept walking and found an empty seat in the back

me in first and I got the

still waiting for everyone else

ear pods and stuck one

second one and said,

the ear pod

was around a couple of hours drive away and it would

and the intro sounded

The

and nodded his

were both singing and jamming our heads to

was 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

looking at me like

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

are you

us and you laughed at our jokes, but I felt like you were

Tyler had said

doing a great job

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

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

a while

of the guy? Because you

summary, yeah.He was a part of myself that I lost and I

of,

were engraved in that little heart locket

was engraved in my

I fully believed that.

heart felt hollow and no matter what I did, I could never

a painful reminder every time I

couldn't bring myself to get

I kept it with me in my

went with me everywhere I go, and when the

must really

face for some time."Yeah.I really

him a sad

in my eyes again and

had been crying over lan for months now, and I refused to let that happen again

was supposed

was supposed to be the

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

"Hear, hear,"

gummy worm at me and we cheered

talk about it or something, I'm always here for

Tyler.You're seriously the sweetest

not,"he stifled

a girl's gonna be

warm blue eyes and

our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared at him as our hands were clasped

know I did things the wrong way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed

speak, but there were no words that

paused for a moment and took a deep breath, saying, "I like you,

I always have.

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