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,"

end call button and let out

I was even

the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder

him again for the

I should take some time to get my thoughts

up writing him

size 12.  After writing that letter, I rewrote it again to

up with a full

longer than my

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

ever as a high

had finished my last class of the

saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and

found myself standing in

this

towards the door and peeked

he was putting some papers

at the sight of him and I got

breath, I knocked gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

played with the letter in my

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

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know

a smart girl, period,"he said

and beautiful and he was doing it

saw things in me when I

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his

last smile before walking out of the

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

a sigh, I put the letter in my back pocket and turned

art studio,

so many

being biased, but this class was always my favorite class

and there was a plague with

always my favorite

was a Friday night and

seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

I could to lan’s place

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

arrived at his place just before 7

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

the door moments later and his eyes lit up

you? You don’t have

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

the key back and

back.I have a lot of

have a

replied, and it sounded bitterer than I had

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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