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,"

the end call button and let out a

I was even holding my

this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to

or text him again

but I thought I should take some time

ended up writing him

three pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to

ended up with a full A4 page of

thing was even longer than

was ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it was already the last day of

last day ever as a high

of the day and I couldn't help but feel

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

the corner and I found myself standing in front of the art

on this

towards the door and peeked

he was

of him and I got nervous

breath, I knocked gently at the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was

not,"I

inside and played with

talk and get right to it, open the letter and read

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how

do.You're a smart girl,

called me smart and beautiful and he was doing

saw things in me when I

for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

a lot to say and the school

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he

smile

my hand, the letter containing

I put the letter in my back pocket and turned

the art studio, I took one

many

being biased, but this class was always

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

always my

Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah

figured I could to lan’s place before

out perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my

arrived at his place just before 7

for a few seconds in silence before I could bring

later and his eyes

don’t

don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from my

him the key back and

this back.I have a lot of

have a use for it anymore

and it sounded bitterer than

closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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