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

didn’t know I was even holding

talking on the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to

or text him again for

I thought I should

ended up writing him a

12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it

ended up with a full A4 page of

thing was even longer than my

everything I wanted to

day ever as a high school

class of the day and

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

walked past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

turned the corner and I found myself standing in

quieter on this side of the

the door

he was putting some papers

of him

breath, I knocked gently at the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten

not,"I

a step inside and played with the letter in

right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud to

said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how

smart

always called me smart and beautiful and he

saw things in me when I didn't even see

him, which made

um, about that talk..."I

not gonna talk

"We're not?"

you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for

the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

you,"He gave me one last smile before walking out

paper in my hand, the letter containing

sigh, I put the letter in my

I left the art studio,

many great

class was always

desk and there was

always

and our graduation was Saturday

seniors were having one last huzzah

could to lan’s place

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

arrived at his place

in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

and his eyes lit up when

don’t have your key?"he

I should use it,"I said,

him the key back and he

back.I

don’t have a use for it

replied, and it sounded bitterer than I

trailed as he closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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