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.

have a happy face on

you're not sitting with

on Tik Tok?

eyes dramatically and made

was a

but Maddie ignored

gave me a look and her eyes darted to

knew what she meant by that

you

"This trip's gonna suck,"

followed Tiff to an

a look and I shrugged

share this with?"he grinned as he pulled out a bag of

help but smile at his obsession with gummy

walking and found an empty seat in

let me in first and I got the

everyone else to pile on

out his ear pods and

then offered me the second one and said,

gladly took the

was around a couple of hours drive away and

played a song and

this The

nodded his head to the

we were both singing and jamming

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 myself from laughing out loud.Tyler smiled and he gave me this look that I

Why are you looking at me like

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

you talking

but I felt like you were hiding your sadness behind all that.But this laugh just now, this

Tyler had said

doing a great job at faking

even call me

lost a part of myself

said after a

it because of the guy? Because you guys

part of myself that I lost and I

souls are made of, yours

words were engraved in that little heart

was engraved in my

I fully believed that.

hollow and no matter

because it was a painful reminder every

bring myself to get

with me in

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

really like him,

face for some

him a sad

were pooling in my eyes again and

lan for months now, and

was supposed to

was supposed to be the start

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

"Hear, hear,"

gummy worm at me

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

seriously the sweetest

I’m not,"he

a girl's gonna be so

at me with his warm blue eyes and I felt how

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

told you how I feel about you and I kissed

but there were no words that

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

I always have.

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