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
know I was even
I could only wonder what our conversation face to face would
didn’t call or text him
should take some time to get my thoughts
up writing him a
long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.
ended up with a full A4
was even longer than
I wanted to say to him
day ever as a
had finished my last class of the day and I couldn't help but
I saw all my friends
everyone, nodding to Tiff
the corner and I found myself standing in front of the
was quieter on this side of
I stepped towards the door
room, he was putting
the sight of him and I got nervous all over
breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to
"Hey,"I said.
quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd
not,"I smiled
played with the letter
talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out
suddenly, cutting my
"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.
don’t even know how
smart girl,
beautiful and he was doing it again
me when I didn't even
grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder
um, about
gonna talk
"We're not?"
you come
"Um...what time?"
"Six? Seven?"
about his offer
say and the school ground
"Okay,"I said finally.
see you tonight,"he said as he
smile before walking out of the
scrunched up paper in my hand, the letter containing everything I wanted to say
a sigh, I put the letter in my back
before I left the art studio, I took one last
many great
biased, but this class was always my favorite class
the desk and there was a plague with lan’s name
always
Friday night and our
so the seniors were having one last huzzah
could to lan’s place
worked out perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all
arrived at his place
stood at his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock
door moments later and his
don’t have your
"I do, but I don’t know if I should use it,"I
handed him the key back and he
have to give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he
have a use for
replied, and it sounded
as he closed the
"So..."I followed.
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