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,"

end call button and let out

was

phone with him was this difficult, I could

call or text him again for the next few

should

writing him a

size 12.  After writing that

with a

thing was even longer than my

I was ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it was already the last day of

my last day ever

class of the day and I couldn't

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

walked past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

the corner and I found myself standing

this side of

the door and peeked

in the room, he was

breath hitched at the sight of him and I got

knocked gently at the door

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I

a step inside and played with the

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter

suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how that

smart girl, period,"he said

beautiful

me when I didn't even see it in

for him, which made saying goodbye

um, about that talk..."I

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer for

say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his

gave me one last smile before walking out

down to the scrunched up paper in my hand, the letter containing everything I

put the letter in my back pocket

studio, I took one last look

so many great

being biased, but this class

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

was always

Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

figured I could to

final goodbye, I would be surrounded by

his place just before

silence before I could

the door moments later and his eyes lit up when he saw

don’t have your key?"he

should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me

handed him the key back and he took

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

should.I don’t have a

and it sounded

trailed as he closed

"So..."I followed.

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