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 a sigh

was even holding

difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face

text him again for the next

but I thought I should take some time to get my

writing him a

size 12.  After writing that letter,

up with a full A4 page

was even longer than my salutatorian graduation

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

day ever as

my last class of the day and

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

nodding to Tiff

found myself standing

on this side

towards the door

room, he was putting some papers

at the sight of him and I got nervous

a deep breath, I knocked gently at the door

"Hey,"I said.

composure, "I was starting

course not,"I

played with the letter in my

get right to it, open the letter and

salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how

do.You're a smart girl,

called me smart and beautiful and he was

in me when I

him, which made

um, about

gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer for

a lot to say and the school

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

one last smile before walking out of

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

in my back pocket

I left the art studio, I took one last

so many great memories

being biased, but this class was always my

then darted to the desk and there was a

was always my favorite teacher

and our graduation was Saturday

the seniors were

could to

I would be surrounded by all my friends for

his place

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

the door moments later and his eyes lit up when he saw

don’t have your key?"he

but I don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from my back

handed him the key back and he

give this back.I have a lot of

I should.I don’t have a

sounded bitterer than

he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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