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

you're not sitting with Brad?"I

Tok?

dramatically and

was a one time

out, but

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

meant by that and

thing.Come on, you can sit with

"This trip's gonna suck,"

as she followed

I shrugged at him, "Wanna be by

I share this with?"he grinned as he pulled out a

help but smile at

kept walking and found an empty seat

first and I got the seat by the

waiting for everyone

his ear pods and stuck one of

me the second

please,"I gladly took the ear pod

drive away and it would be

a song and

The Weeknd?"I

said and nodded his

singing and jamming our heads to 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

at me like that?"I said when my laughter died

just that I haven’t seen you smile

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

a

and Carrie didn't even call me

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

a while of

it because of the guy?

was a part of myself that I lost

souls are made of, yours and mine

that little heart locket

was engraved in my

I fully believed that.

no matter what I did, I

it was a painful reminder every time I saw it hanging

I couldn't bring myself to get rid of

kept it with me

when the time was right, one day I

really like

my face for

him

in my eyes again

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

supposed to be

be the

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

"Hear, hear,"

me and we cheered with the

talk about it or something, I'm always

Tyler.You're seriously the sweetest guy

not,"he

gonna be so damn lucky

looking at me with his warm blue eyes and

in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this

the wrong way before.I never told you how I feel about you and I kissed you at the dance without even thinking about it,"Tyler said, and he kept his

but there were

okay?"he paused for a moment and took

I always have.

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