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,"

end call button and

know I was even

was this difficult, I could only

or text him again

but I thought I should take some time to get my

ended up writing him

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 my salutatorian

I was ready and I had everything I wanted to

my last day ever as a high school

my last class of the day and I couldn't help but feel

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

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and

found myself standing in front of the art

quieter on this side of

stepped towards the door and peeked

was alone in the room, he was putting some papers into

breath hitched at the sight of him and I

gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure,

course not,"I

step inside and played with the letter

skip the small talk and get right to it, open

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how that

do.You're a smart girl, period,"he

smart and beautiful and he was

things in me when I didn't even see it

which made saying

about that

talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

to say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

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

you,"He gave me one last smile

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

I put the letter in my

studio, I took one

many great memories

class was

eyes then darted to the desk and there was

he was always my favorite

a Friday night and our graduation

was the night before graduation, so the seniors

I could to lan’s

goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my

place just before

at his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

and his eyes lit up when he

You don’t have your

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

key back and he

to give this back.I have a lot

I should.I don’t have a use for it

it sounded bitterer than

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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