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 a sigh of

was even holding

I could only wonder what our conversation face to

didn’t call or text him again for the next few

but I thought I should take some time to

writing him

font size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to make it more

up with a full

thing was even longer than my

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

last day ever as a high school

of the day and I couldn't help

halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top of their

to Tiff and Carrie, and

the corner and I found myself standing

this side of the

stepped towards the door and peeked

he was putting some

at the sight of him and I got

at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I

step inside and played with

just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud

said suddenly, cutting my

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know

smart girl,

called me smart and beautiful and he was doing it again

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

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye

about that

talk here,

"We're not?"

you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

to say and the

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

one last smile before walking

to the scrunched up paper in my hand, the

I put the letter in

art studio, I

many

biased, but this class was always my favorite

the desk and there was a

was always my favorite

a Friday night and our graduation was

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah

I could to lan’s place before

goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends for

his place just before

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock

and his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have your

use it,"I said, revealing

him the key back and

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

don’t have a use for

it sounded

as he closed

"So..."I followed.

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