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,"

call button and let out a sigh of

didn’t know I was even holding my

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

him again

should take some time to get my thoughts

ended up writing

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

ended up with a

was even longer than my salutatorian

I was ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared,

ever as a high school

of the day and I couldn't help

way down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at

walked past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

turned the corner and I found myself

on this side of

the door and

in the room, he was putting some papers

of him and I

a deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I smiled

played with the letter

get right to it,

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

do.You're a smart girl, period,"he

me smart and beautiful and he was doing it

saw things in me when I didn't even see

which made saying goodbye

about

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

had a lot to say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he

smile before walking out of

hand, the letter containing everything I wanted to say

a sigh, I put the letter in my back

left the art studio, I took one last

many great

being biased, but this class was always my favorite

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

always my favorite teacher

night and our graduation was Saturday

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

could to lan’s place

I

arrived at his place just before 7

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

door moments later and his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have your key?"he

I don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key

handed him the key back and he

have to give this back.I have a lot of

don’t have a use for

and it sounded bitterer than I

he closed

"So..."I followed.

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