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,"

tapped the end call button and let out

didn’t know I was even holding my

with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to face would

text him

should take

up writing him

size 12.  After writing that

up with a full A4 page

longer than my salutatorian

wanted to say to him

last day ever as a high school

the day and

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

everyone, nodding to Tiff and

found myself standing in front of the

quieter on this side

stepped towards the

in the room, he was putting some papers into his

him and I got nervous all

I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

step inside and played with the letter in my

skip the small talk and get right to

said suddenly, cutting my train of

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know

smart

always called me smart and beautiful and

me when I didn't

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

had a lot to say and the school ground was probably

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off

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

hand, the letter containing

in

the art studio, I took

many great

but this class

the desk and there was a plague

was always my favorite

Friday night and our graduation

seniors were

figured I could to lan’s

because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would

his place

silence before I could bring myself to

later and his eyes lit

don’t have your key?"he

if I should use it,"I said, revealing the

handed him the key back and he took

have to give this back.I have

I should.I don’t have a use for

sounded bitterer

he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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