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 a sigh of

was even

phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face

text him

I should take some time to get my

ended up writing him

was three pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote

up with a full A4

was even longer than my

I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it

ever

my last class of the day and

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

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and

corner and I found myself

this side

towards the door and

alone in the room, he was putting some

him and I

I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting

not,"I

took a step inside and played with the

just skip the small talk and get right to

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

a smart girl, period,"he

beautiful and

in me when I didn't

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye

about

gonna talk

"We're not?"

come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer for

had a lot to say and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

smile before

up paper in my hand, the letter containing everything I wanted

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

left the art studio,

many

biased, but this class

eyes then darted to the desk and there was a plague with lan’s name

was always my

and our graduation was Saturday

seniors were having one

I could to lan’s place

because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends for some comfort and

place just before 7

stood at his door for a few seconds in silence

moments later and his eyes lit up when he saw

don’t have your

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

handed him the key back

to give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

have a use

replied, and it sounded bitterer than

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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