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 sigh

I was even

I could only wonder what our conversation face to face would be

text him again for the

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

up writing

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

with a full

was even longer than my salutatorian

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

my last day ever as a high school

last class of the day and I couldn't

I saw all my friends and classmates

everyone, nodding to

I found myself standing in

quieter on this

the

in the room, he was putting some

hitched at the sight of him

deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

his composure, "I

not,"I smiled

a step inside and played

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

suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

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

me smart and beautiful and he was doing it

me when I didn't even see it

so grateful for him, which

um, about that

talk

"We're not?"

come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

a lot to say and the

"Okay,"I said finally.

see you tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase

gave me one last smile

hand, the letter containing everything I

put the letter in my

I left the art studio, I took one last look

so many great

biased, but this class was always my

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

was always my favorite

was a Friday night and

graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah

to lan’s place before the

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

place just before

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

moments later and his eyes lit up when he

you? You don’t have

it,"I said, revealing the key

handed him the key back and he

to give this back.I have a

should.I don’t have a use for it

and it sounded bitterer than I

as he closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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