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,"

button and let out a sigh of

know I was even holding

the phone with him was this difficult, I could only

didn’t call or text him again for the

to, but I thought I should take some

writing him a

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

a full

longer than

wanted

last day ever as a

last class of the day and

I saw all my friends and classmates cheering

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

corner and I found myself

this side of

stepped towards the door and

the room, he

breath hitched at the sight of him and

knocked gently at the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd

not,"I smiled

a step inside and played

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

suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

even know how that

smart

always called me smart and beautiful and he

me when I didn't even

for him, which

about

talk here,

"We're not?"

come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for a

say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase

smile before walking

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

letter in my

studio, I took one last look

were so many

being biased, but this class was always

the desk and there was a

always

and our graduation

seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

could to lan’s place

my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends for some comfort

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

you? You don’t

I should use it,"I said,

him the key

don't have to give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

don’t have a use for it anymore

sounded bitterer than

he closed the door behind

"So..."I followed.

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