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,"

button and

was even holding my

this difficult, I could only

or text him again for the

wanted to, but I thought I should take

up writing

size 12.  After

with a

longer than my salutatorian

everything I wanted to say

ever

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

I saw all my friends

to Tiff and Carrie, and

found myself standing in front of the

on this side of the

the door

in the room, he

him and I got nervous all

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

not,"I

took a step inside and played with the letter

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

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

a smart girl,

smart and beautiful and he was doing it again

in me when I didn't

him, which

um, about that

talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his

the

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his briefcase

me one last smile before

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

in

studio, I took one last look

so many great

but this class

the desk and there was a plague with lan’s

he was always my favorite teacher

night and our graduation was

seniors were

I could to lan’s place before

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

arrived at his place just before 7

a few seconds in silence before I could bring

moments later and his eyes lit up

don’t

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

the key back and he took

this back.I

a use for it

it sounded bitterer than I

closed

"So..."I followed.

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