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

know I was even holding

talking on the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder

call or text him again for

should take some time to get

up writing

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

up with a full

thing was even longer than my

wanted to say

ever

of the day and I

friends and classmates cheering and

past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

turned the corner and I found myself standing in front

this side of

towards the door and

room, he was putting some

breath hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous all over

deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to see

"Hey,"I said.

taken aback, but he quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I smiled

step inside and played with the letter in my

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything

said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

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

always called me smart and beautiful

in me when I

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even

um, about

talk

"We're not?"

you come

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer for a

to say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase

gave me one last smile before walking out

my hand, the letter containing everything I wanted

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to my

before I left the art studio, I

so many great

but this class

darted to the desk and there was

was always

Friday night and our graduation

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

to lan’s place before

I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded

his place just before

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

his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have your key?"he

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

key back and he took

back.I have

should.I don’t have a use for it anymore

and it sounded bitterer than I

he closed

"So..."I followed.

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