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 let out a

I was even holding my

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

call or text him

wanted to, but I thought I should take

writing him

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

ended up with a full A4

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 day of

ever as a high school

the day

the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling

myself standing in

this

the door and peeked

room, he was putting

him and I got nervous all

I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten

course not,"I smiled

and played with the letter in my

the small talk and get right to

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

smart girl, period,"he

called me smart and beautiful and he was doing it again

saw things in me when I didn't even see it

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about

talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his

the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he

you,"He gave me one last smile before

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

I put the letter in my

before I left the art studio,

many great

biased, but this class was always my favorite class

eyes then darted to the desk and there was a plague

was always

was a Friday night and our graduation was

was the night before graduation, so the seniors

I could to lan’s place

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

place just

for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself

later and his eyes lit up when

you? You don’t have your key?"he

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

the key back and he took

don't have to give this back.I have a

a

it sounded bitterer than I had

closed

"So..."I followed.

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