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,"

call button and let out

I was

him was this difficult, I could

didn’t call or text him again for the next

wanted to, but I thought I should take some time to get

up writing him

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

ended up with a full A4 page of

was even longer than my salutatorian

that I was ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared,

last day ever as a high school

my last class of the day and

my friends and classmates

nodding to

the corner and I found myself standing in front of

was quieter on this side of the

the door and peeked

he was putting some papers into

sight of him and I got nervous all over

breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was

course not,"I smiled

inside and played with

just skip the small talk and get right to it, open

said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how that

smart girl, period,"he said

beautiful and he was

in me when I didn't

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye

about that talk..."I

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for a

and the school ground was probably

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off

last smile

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

the letter in my back pocket and

art studio,

so many great memories

being biased, but this class was always my

eyes then darted to the desk and

was always my

a Friday night and our graduation

so the seniors were having one last huzzah

I could to lan’s place before

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

at his place

his door for a few seconds in silence before

later and his eyes lit up when he saw

don’t

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

key back

give this back.I have a lot of

a use for it anymore

replied, and it sounded bitterer than

he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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