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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