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

was even

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

or text him again for the next

I thought I should take some time to

up writing

long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing

with a full A4 page

was even longer

everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it was already the last day

my last day ever as a high school

class of the day and I couldn't help

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top of

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff

and I found myself standing in front of

quieter on this side of

I stepped towards the door and peeked

he

of him and

the door and his head whipped up to

"Hey,"I said.

looked taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was

not,"I smiled

a step inside and played with the letter in

get right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud to

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how

do.You're a smart

me smart and beautiful and he was doing it

me when I didn't even

which

um, about that

gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for

lot to say and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase off

you,"He gave me one last smile before walking

my hand, the letter

out a sigh, I put the letter in my back

studio, I

were so many great memories

class was always

desk and

he was always my favorite teacher

night and our

the night before graduation, so the seniors were having

could to lan’s place before the

final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all

his place just before 7

door for a few seconds in silence

later and his eyes lit up when

don’t have your

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

key back

have to give this back.I

a

sounded bitterer than I

trailed as he closed

"So..."I followed.

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