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

didn’t know I was even holding

was this difficult, I could only

or text him again for the next

but I thought I should take

writing him a

three pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter,

up with a full A4 page

longer than my

everything I wanted to say to

day ever as a

the day and I couldn't help but

halls, I saw all my friends and classmates

everyone, nodding to Tiff

I found myself standing in front of the art

quieter on this

the door and peeked

was alone in the room, he was putting

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

breath, I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

looked taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I

inside and played with the letter in my

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

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

smart

always called me smart and beautiful and he was doing it

in me when I

for him, which made saying goodbye even

um, about that talk..."I

not gonna talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

to say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off the

last smile before walking out

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

in my back pocket and turned to

art studio, I took one

so many great memories

but this class was always my favorite

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

he was always my

a Friday night and our graduation was

so the seniors were having one last huzzah at

could to

out perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be

place

stood at his door for a few seconds in silence before I

later and his eyes lit

you? You don’t have your

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

him the key back

to give this back.I have a lot

don’t have a use for

and it sounded bitterer

trailed as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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