Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 62: Almost Always 

EMMA’s POV : 

I thought about calling, but the thought of hearing his voice scared the hell out of me.

I turned off the call before it even rang.

Calling someone out of the blue could be so nerve wracking.

So I decided to text him instead.

It was more casual.

I wrote about ten different texts before settling with "Can we talk - Emma’.

Yeah, just those four words.

No hi or hello or how are you.

It was simple and straightforward.

As soon as I hit the send I threw my phone down at the passenger seat.

I was so nervous, I couldn't even look at it.

I waited for a few seconds before I picked up the phone again.

The message was delivered.

I was wondering if he'd read it yet, and as if to answer my question, my phone suddenly buzzed with an incoming call.

lan was calling me! I was not prepared for that! I almost dropped my phone to the ground out of sheer shock.

I was starting at the screen for a while before I took a deep breath and tapped the answer button.

"Hello?"my voice came out shakily 

"Emma, it’s good to hear from you,"he said.

He sounded cool and casual.

"It is?I asked.

‘Yeah, I also have something I wanna talk to you about,"

"You do?"

"Let’s meet.Just tell me when and where,"

"Okay, I will,"

I said, pausing for a moment before continuing, "Hey, you know, you could just text me back,"

"And you could just call,"he replied.

"Right..."

"Yeah..."

There was an awkward silence there and I could hear his breathing.

This was exactly why I didn’t wanna call him in the first place.

I didn’t want any awkward silences.

"So, I'll let you know the time and place,"I said finally.

"Okay,"

"I'll, uh text or call or something,"

"Okay,"

"Alright, see you then,"

"See you,"

end call button and let out

was even holding my

was this difficult, I could only wonder what our

him

wanted to, but I thought I should take some time to get

ended up writing him a

12.  After writing that letter,

ended up with a full A4 page

thing was even longer than

everything I wanted

day ever as a high school

my last class of the day

way down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

corner and I found myself standing in front of the art

this side of

towards the door and peeked

he was putting some papers into

him and I

knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up

"Hey,"I said.

aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten

not,"I smiled

played with the

I should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

do.You're a smart girl, period,"he said

called me smart and beautiful and he was doing

me when I didn't even see it in

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that talk..."I

talk here, are

"We're not?"

you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for

say and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his briefcase off

me one last smile before

in my hand, the letter containing everything I wanted

I put the letter in my back pocket and

before I left the art studio, I

many great memories

this class

darted to the desk and there was a plague with lan’s

always my favorite teacher

night and our graduation was Saturday

graduation, so the seniors

figured I could to lan’s place before

tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends for

at his place

his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

and his eyes lit up when he

You don’t have your key?"he

 "I do, but I don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key

him the key back and

back.I have

should.I don’t have a use for it anymore

replied, and it sounded

trailed as he closed

"So..."I followed.

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