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,"

button and let out a

didn’t know I was even holding my

I could only wonder what our conversation face to

didn’t call or text him

but I thought I should

up writing him a

12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to make it more

with a

thing was even longer than my salutatorian graduation

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

ever as a high school

last class of the day and

I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at

past by everyone, nodding to

myself standing

quieter on this side

towards the door and

alone in the room, he

him and

the

"Hey,"I said.

he quickly gathered his composure, "I

course not,"I smiled

step inside and played

skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

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

called me smart and beautiful

in me when I didn't even see it

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

um, about

gonna talk

"We're not?"

come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his

say and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

he pulled

smile before walking

in my hand, the letter containing everything

out a sigh, I put the letter in my back

the art studio, I took one last

so many great memories

biased, but this class was

desk and there was

he was always my favorite teacher

Friday night and our graduation

graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah

I could to lan’s

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

place

a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself

moments later and his eyes lit up

you? You don’t

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

him the key back

give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

I should.I don’t have a use for

replied, and it sounded bitterer than I

closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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