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

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

or text him

thought I should take some time

up writing

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

a full A4

was even longer than my salutatorian

wanted to say to him prepared, it was already

ever as a high school

class of the day and I couldn't

I saw all my friends and classmates

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

turned the corner and I found myself standing

quieter on this side

I stepped towards the

the room, he was

breath hitched at the sight of him and I got

the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

composure, "I

not,"I

inside and played with

should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud

said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

do.You're a smart girl,

called me smart and beautiful and he

saw things in me when I

so grateful for him, which

um, about

gonna talk

"We're not?"

come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

a lot to say and the school ground was probably

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled

last smile before walking out of the

to the scrunched up paper in my hand,

I put the letter in my back pocket and turned

before I left the art studio, I took one last

many

this class was always my favorite

then darted to the desk and there was a

he was always

a Friday night and our graduation

seniors were having one last huzzah at

to lan’s

final goodbye, I

arrived at his place just

at his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock

moments later and his eyes lit up

don’t have your

I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me

key back and he took

this back.I have a lot of

a use for it anymore

replied, and it sounded bitterer than

he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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