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 let out a

didn’t know I was

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

him again for

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

up writing

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

a full A4 page of

thing was even longer than my salutatorian graduation

wanted to

my last day ever as a

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

halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

corner and I found myself standing in front of

was quieter on this side of the

towards the door and peeked

the room, he was putting some papers into

sight of him and I got nervous all over

a deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I smiled

took a step inside and played

and get right to

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how that

a smart girl, period,"he said

beautiful and he was

saw things in me when I

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even

about

not gonna talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his

and the school

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase

smile

down to the scrunched up paper in my hand,

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

art studio,

so many great

but this class was

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

he was always my favorite teacher

a Friday night and our

the seniors were

I could to lan’s

final goodbye, I would be surrounded

arrived at his place

few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock

later and his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have your key?"he

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

key

to give this back.I

have a use for

sounded bitterer than I had

trailed as he closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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