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

know I was

this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to face would be

text him again for

I thought I should take some time to

up writing him a

font size 12.  After writing that letter,

a full A4 page of

was even longer than my salutatorian graduation

that I was ready and I had everything I wanted to

day ever as

the day

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

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling

corner and I found myself

on this side of the

I stepped towards the door

in the room, he was putting

of him and I got nervous

at the door and his head whipped up

"Hey,"I said.

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

course not,"I

took a step inside and played with the letter in

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

suddenly, cutting my

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

smart girl,

me smart and beautiful

saw things in me when I didn't even

for him, which made saying goodbye

um, about that talk..."I

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his

the school

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he

me one last smile before walking out of

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

I put the letter in my back

before I left the art studio, I took one last look

many great

biased, but this class was always my

to the desk and there was a plague

always my favorite teacher

Friday night and our graduation was

the seniors were having one

figured I could to lan’s place before the

perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be

place

few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock

opened the door moments later and his eyes lit

don’t have your key?"he

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

key

don't have to give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

don’t have a use for it

and it sounded bitterer than I had

he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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