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

was even

with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what

text him again for the next

but I thought I should take some

up writing him

  After writing that letter, I rewrote

ended up with a full A4 page of

thing was even longer than my

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

my last day ever as a

my last class of the day and I

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

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

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

on this side

the door

alone in the room, he

at the sight of him and I

breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up

"Hey,"I said.

quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten about

not,"I

inside and played with the

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

said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

smart

smart and beautiful and he was doing it again

when I didn't even see it in

grateful for him, which

um, about that talk..."I

gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for

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

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase off the

me one last smile

hand, the letter containing everything

put the letter in my

I left the art studio, I took one last

were so many

this class was always my favorite class

to the desk and there was a plague

he was always my favorite teacher

and our graduation was

so the seniors were having one last

I could to lan’s

because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would

at his place

few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

his eyes

you? You don’t have your

use it,"I

the key back and he

give this back.I have

I should.I don’t have a use

it sounded bitterer than I had

closed

"So..."I followed.

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