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

was

could only wonder what our conversation face

text him

to, but I thought I should take some time to get my thoughts

up writing

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

with a full

even longer than

I finally knew that I was ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared,

day ever as

last class of the day and

I saw all my friends and classmates cheering

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling

the corner and I found myself standing in front of the art

quieter on this side of the

stepped towards the door and

room, he was putting some papers into

sight of him and

breath, I knocked gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

inside and played with the letter

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

a smart girl, period,"he said

beautiful and he

I didn't even see

him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about

not gonna talk

"We're not?"

you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer for

had a lot to say and the

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled

gave me one last smile before walking

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

a sigh, I put the letter in my

art studio, I

were so many

being biased, but this class was always my favorite

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

always my favorite teacher

was a Friday night and our graduation was

the seniors were

could to lan’s place before

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

his place just before 7

for a few seconds in silence

and his eyes lit up when

you? You don’t have your key?"he

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

key back and

give this back.I

have a use for

sounded bitterer

trailed as he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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