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,"

call button and

was even

this difficult, I could

him again for the next few

but I thought I should take some time

writing him

12.  After writing that letter,

with a full A4

was even longer than my salutatorian graduation

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

last day ever as a

my last class of the day and I

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

everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

myself

on this side

I stepped towards the door

was alone in the room, he was

at the sight of him and I got nervous all

I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I

played with the

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

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how that

smart girl, period,"he said

me smart and beautiful and

in me when I didn't even

him, which made saying

um, about

gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

had a lot to say and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

me one last smile

scrunched up paper in my hand, the

a sigh, I put the letter in

I left the art studio, I took one last

were so many great

biased, but this class was

eyes then darted to the desk and there was

always my

Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

to

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

place just before

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

his eyes

You don’t have your key?"he

know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from

handed him the key

give this back.I have a

a use

it sounded bitterer than I had

he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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