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

not sitting

Tik Tok? Ugh! We

her eyes dramatically and made

a one

out, but Maddie ignored

and her eyes darted to Tyler, who was standing next to

meant by that and I nodded

you poor thing.Come on, you

"This trip's gonna suck,"

announced as she followed Tiff to

and I shared a look and I shrugged at him, "Wanna

as he pulled out a bag of

help but smile at

kept walking and found an

in first and I

for everyone

his ear pods and stuck one of them in his

me the second one and

gladly took the ear pod from

was around a couple of hours drive away and

played a song and the intro sounded

The

nodded

and jamming

start this trip right.Tyler was purposefully singing off-key and it was hilarious to hear.I couldn't stop

you looking at me like that?"I

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

are you

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

was shocked that Tyler had said

was doing a great

didn't even call me out on it,

after the accident...I lost a part of myself and I couldn't get it

said after a while of

of the guy? Because you

of myself that I lost

made of, yours and mine are

were engraved in that little

was engraved

I fully believed that.

hollow and no matter

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

couldn't bring myself

with me in

went with me everywhere I go, and when the time was right, one

must really like him,

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

him a sad

in my eyes again and I

lan for months now, and I refused to let that happen

supposed

supposed to be the

it’s over and I’m

"Hear, hear,"

a gummy worm at me and we cheered with the

ever need to talk about it or

seriously the sweetest guy

I’m not,"he

honestly.Some day, a girl's gonna be so damn lucky to

eyes and I

our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just stared

know I did things the wrong way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed you at the dance without even thinking about

there were no words

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

I always have.

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