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,"

and let out

didn’t know I was

this difficult, I could only wonder what our

or text him again for the next few

I should

up writing him a

pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to

ended up with a full A4

thing was even longer than

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

ever

finished my last class of the day and I couldn't help but feel

all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at

nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling

turned the corner and I found myself standing in

this side of

the

was alone in the room, he was putting some papers

of him and I got nervous

the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

and played with

the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how that

smart

called me smart and beautiful and he was

things in me when I

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even

um, about that

gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he

me one last smile before walking out

paper in my hand, the letter

a sigh, I put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

I left the art studio, I took

so many great

this class was always my favorite class

the desk and there was a plague with lan’s name

always my favorite

a Friday night and our

seniors were having one last

I could to

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

at his place just before 7

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to

his eyes lit

you? You don’t have your

do, but I don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from my

the key

this back.I have a lot of

I should.I don’t have a

it sounded bitterer than I

closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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