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

didn’t know I was even holding my

with him was this difficult, I could only

him again for the next few

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

ended up writing

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

with a full A4 page of

even longer than

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

last day ever

last class of the day and I couldn't help

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the

everyone, nodding to

corner and I found myself standing in front of the art

on this

I stepped towards the door

room, he was putting

hitched at the sight of him and I got

knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting

course not,"I

took a step inside and played with the letter in my

talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

smart girl,

beautiful and he

in me when I didn't even see it in

for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about that talk..."I

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his

lot to say and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

see you tonight,"he said as he pulled his

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

paper in my hand, the

letter in

the art studio, I took one

were so many great memories

being biased, but this class was always my

desk and there was a plague

he was always

and our graduation was Saturday

night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah at

could to lan’s place

I would be surrounded by

place

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

opened the door moments later and his

You don’t have your

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

key back and

back.I have a

should.I don’t have a

it sounded

trailed as he closed

"So..."I followed.

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