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 sigh of

was

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

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

I should take some time to get my

up writing

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

with a full

thing was even longer than

ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him

day ever

last class of the

halls, I saw all my friends and

everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

myself standing in

on this

the door and

the room, he was putting

at the sight of him and I got

I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I

inside and played with the

I should just skip the small talk and get right

salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

do.You're a smart girl, period,"he said

smart and beautiful and he was

me when I didn't even see

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye

about

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

a lot to say and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

gave me one last smile before walking

the scrunched up paper in my hand,

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

studio, I took one

so many great

class was always

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

always my

Friday night and

the seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

could to lan’s

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

arrived at his place just before 7

few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

door moments later and his eyes

You don’t have

don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing

the key back and he

to give this back.I have a lot of

don’t have a use for it anymore

it sounded

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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