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

know I was

him was this difficult, I could only wonder what

text him again for the next

should take some time to get my thoughts

ended up writing

was three pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12. 

ended up with a

even longer than my salutatorian

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

last day ever as a

class of the day and I couldn't help

saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

turned the corner and I found myself standing in front of

this

the

alone in the room, he was putting some papers into

hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous all over

I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I smiled

a step inside and played with

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right to

said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how

smart girl, period,"he

called me smart and beautiful and he was doing

in me when I didn't even

which

about that

gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his

and the school ground was probably not the best

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off the

smile before walking

down to the scrunched up paper in my hand, the letter containing everything

I put the letter in my back pocket and

I left the art studio, I took one last look

so many great

biased, but this class was always

darted to the desk and there was a

always

a Friday night and our

before graduation, so the seniors

to lan’s place before

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

arrived at his place just before 7

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

and his eyes lit up when he

you? You don’t have your

it,"I said, revealing the key he

key back and he took

give this back.I have a lot

a use for

sounded bitterer than I

he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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