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

didn’t know I was even holding my

phone with him was this difficult, I could

call or text him again for the

I should take some time to

writing him a

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

a

longer than my salutatorian

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

day ever as a high school

had finished my last class of the day and I

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

nodding to Tiff and

and I found myself standing in front

on this side of the

towards the

room, he was putting some papers into his

at the sight of him and I got nervous all over

gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

inside and played with the letter in my

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

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know

a smart girl, period,"he

always called me smart and beautiful and

in me when I didn't

which made saying

um, about that talk..."I

talk

"We're not?"

you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for a

and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

he pulled his briefcase off the

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

down to the scrunched up paper in my hand,

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

I left the art studio, I

many great memories

class was always my favorite

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

always my favorite teacher

night and our graduation was Saturday

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were

could to lan’s place

worked out perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends for

at his place

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

later and his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have

use it,"I said, revealing the key he gave me from my back

key back and he

this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

I should.I don’t have a use for it

replied, and it sounded bitterer

as he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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