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 let out

know I was even holding my

difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face

or text him again for the next few

thought I should take some time to get my thoughts

writing

long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to make

up with a full A4 page

thing was even longer than

wanted

day ever as a

last class of the day

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

walked past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and

corner and I found myself standing in front

on this

I stepped towards the door

he was putting some papers

him and I got

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

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder

not,"I smiled

inside and played with the letter in my

should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud to

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how

a smart

beautiful and he was doing it again

me when I didn't even see it in

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about

talk here, are

"We're not?"

come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

to say and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

he pulled his

gave me one last smile before walking

the scrunched up paper in my hand,

put the letter in my back pocket and turned

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

many

but this class was always my favorite

desk and there

always

Friday night and our graduation

the night before graduation, so the seniors were having

to lan’s place before the

him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by

his place just before

door for a few seconds in silence before I could

the door moments later and his eyes lit up when

you? You don’t have your key?"he

I should use it,"I

key back and he took

this back.I have a

a use

and it sounded bitterer

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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