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,"

button and let out a sigh of

didn’t know I was even

was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to face

didn’t call or text him again

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

ended up writing him

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

up with a full

thing was even longer than my salutatorian

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

ever as a high school

class of the day and I couldn't help

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

to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

corner and I found myself standing in

this side of

towards the door and peeked

he was putting some papers into

of him and I got

the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

looked taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure,

course not,"I

a step inside and played with the

the small talk and get right to it, open

said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

a smart girl, period,"he said

always called me smart and beautiful and he was doing

when I didn't even

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even

um, about that

talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he pulled his

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

hand, the letter containing everything I

put the letter in

I left the art studio, I took one last look

so many

this class was always my

and there

was always my favorite teacher

and our

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were having

to lan’s place before the

because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would

his place

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

moments later and his eyes lit up when he

you? You don’t have your

it,"I said, revealing the key he gave

the key

give this back.I have a

don’t have a use for it

sounded bitterer

closed the

"So..."I followed.

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