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 with Brad?"I asked

Tik Tok? Ugh! We are

dramatically and

was a one

but Maddie

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

by that and I nodded

you poor thing.Come on, you can sit with me,"Tiff offered

"This trip's gonna suck,"

announced as she followed Tiff to an empty

look and I shrugged at him, "Wanna be by bus

as he pulled

but smile at his

found an empty seat

first and I got the

for everyone else to pile on the

out his ear pods and stuck one of them

second

took the ear pod

couple of hours drive away and it would be dreadful if we didn’t have any

played a song and the intro

The Weeknd?"I

said and nodded

and jamming our heads to the

was hilarious to hear.I couldn't

you looking at me like that?"I said when my laughter

a moment before saying, "It’s just that I haven’t seen you

you

at our jokes, but I felt like you were hiding your sadness behind all that.But

shocked that Tyler had

doing a great job

even call me

for me after the accident...I lost a part of myself and I couldn't

a while of

it because of the guy? Because you

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

our souls are made of, yours and mine are the

little heart locket that lan

was engraved

I fully believed that.

my heart felt hollow and no matter

necklace because it was a painful reminder every time I

I couldn't bring myself to get rid of

with me in

I go, and when the time was right, one day

really

my face for some time."Yeah.I

him

eyes again and I felt

for months now, and

was supposed

was supposed to be the start

over and I’m ready to

"Hear, hear,"

a gummy worm at me and we cheered

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

seriously the

not,"he

girl's gonna be so damn

looking at me with his warm blue eyes and I felt

my hand in his.Gently, he laced our fingers together.I was caught off guard by this sweet action.I just

kissed you at the

started to speak, but there were no words

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

I always have.

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