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,"

tapped the end call button and let out a sigh

know I was even holding my

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

text him again for the

should take

up writing

Roman font size 12.  After writing

ended up with a full A4 page of

even longer than my

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

day ever as a high

class of the day and I couldn't

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

walked past by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

the corner and I found myself standing in front of

quieter on this side of the

stepped towards the

he was putting some

hitched at the sight of him and I

gently at the door and his head whipped up

"Hey,"I said.

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

course not,"I smiled

and played with

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

salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how

do.You're a smart girl,

beautiful and he was doing it

me when I didn't even see it in

him, which made saying

um, about

not gonna talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase

last smile

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

I put the letter in my back pocket and turned to my

before I left the art studio, I took

many great

this class was always my favorite class

to the desk and there was a

always my favorite teacher

was a Friday night and our graduation was

night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last

I could to lan’s

perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I

arrived at his place just before

at his door for a few seconds in silence

opened the door moments later and his eyes lit up when he

you? You don’t have your key?"he

use it,"I said, revealing

handed him the key

have to give this back.I

don’t have a

replied, and it sounded bitterer

closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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