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

could only wonder what our conversation face to face

him again for the

wanted to, but I thought I should take

ended up writing

  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to make it

ended up with a full A4

was even longer than my

wanted to say to him prepared, it

ever as

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

my way down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top of their

everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

and I found myself standing in

on this side of

towards the door and peeked

in the room, he was putting some papers into his

the sight of him and I got nervous all over

deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

aback, but he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I

and played with the

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

salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how

smart girl, period,"he said

me smart and beautiful and he

me when I didn't even see it in

which made saying goodbye even

um, about that talk..."I

talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

lot to say and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase off the

gave me one last smile before

in my hand, the letter containing everything I wanted to

the letter in my back pocket and turned to my

left the art studio, I took

many great

but this class was always my favorite

the desk and there was a plague

he was always my favorite

a Friday night and our graduation

the seniors were having one last huzzah at

could to lan’s place before

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

place just before 7

stood at his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself

the door moments later and his eyes lit up when he

You don’t have your

know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key

the key back and he took

back.I

should.I don’t have a use for it

it sounded bitterer than I had

closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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