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

didn’t know I was even holding my

on the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation

him again for the

I thought I should take some

up writing

size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it

up with a full A4 page of

was even longer than

and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it

ever as a high school

last class of the day and I

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

walked past by everyone, nodding to

turned the corner and I found myself standing in

was quieter on this

the

alone in the room, he was putting some

sight of him and I got

the door and his head whipped up

"Hey,"I said.

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

course not,"I

step inside and played

if 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,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how

smart girl, period,"he said

always called me smart and beautiful and he

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

him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that

talk here,

"We're not?"

you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer for

and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

see you tonight,"he said as he

last smile before walking out of the

the scrunched up paper in my hand, the letter

out a sigh, I put the letter in my back pocket and

I left the art studio, I

so many great memories

but this class was always my

desk and there was a plague with lan’s

was always my

was a Friday night and

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

could to lan’s

I would be surrounded by all my

arrived at his place just before

a few seconds in silence before I could bring

and his eyes lit

you? You don’t have

it,"I said, revealing

handed him the key back and he took

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

a

sounded bitterer

closed the

"So..."I followed.

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