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,"

tapped the end call button and let out a sigh of

know I was

difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to face would be

didn’t call or text him

wanted to, but I thought I should take some time to

ended up writing him a

size 12.  After writing that letter, I

up with a full

was even longer than my salutatorian

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

last day ever as a high

class of the day

friends and classmates cheering and yelling

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

I found myself standing

this

towards the door and

the room, he was putting some

breath hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous all

gently at the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

but he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I smiled

a step inside and played with the

small talk and get right to

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

a smart girl,

smart and beautiful and he was

me when I didn't even see it

him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that talk..."I

gonna talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

had a lot to say and the

"Okay,"I said finally.

see you tonight,"he said as he pulled

last smile before walking out of

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

put the letter in my back pocket

the art studio, I took one last

were so many great memories

class was always my favorite

to the desk and there

was always my favorite

a Friday night and our

before graduation, so the seniors were

I could to lan’s place before

goodbye, I would be

his place just

few seconds in silence before I could

moments later and his eyes

you? You don’t have your key?"he

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

the key

to give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

should.I don’t have a use for it anymore

replied, and it sounded

closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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