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 sigh

know I was even holding

on the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face

didn’t call or text him again for the next

I should take some time to get my thoughts

ended up writing him a

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

ended up with a full

even longer

I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it was already the last day

day ever as a high school

last class of the

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

nodding to Tiff

turned the corner and I found myself standing in front of

on this side of the

stepped towards the door and

in the room, he was putting

him and I got nervous

the door and his head

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure,

not,"I smiled

a step inside and played

skip the small talk and get right to it, open

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

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

smart girl, period,"he

and beautiful and he was doing

when I didn't even see it in

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that

talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer for

had a lot to say and the

"Okay,"I said finally.

he pulled his

you,"He gave me one last smile before walking out

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

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

art studio, I

were so many great memories

biased, but this class was always my

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

he was always my favorite teacher

Friday night and our

so the seniors were having one last huzzah at

to lan’s place before

I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my

his place

door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself

the door moments later and his eyes lit

you? You don’t

if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from my back

key back and he took

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

don’t have a use for

replied, and it sounded bitterer

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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