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

know I was

the phone with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to

text him again for the

I should take some

writing

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

ended up with a full A4 page

even longer than my

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

ever as a

last class of the day and I couldn't help but feel

down the halls, I saw all my friends

to Tiff and

myself standing in

this

the

alone in the room, he was putting some

of him and I

at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

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

course not,"I

played with the letter in

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

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

do.You're a smart

always called me smart and beautiful and he was doing it again

I didn't even

for him, which made saying goodbye

um, about that

not gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer for

the school ground was probably

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off the

one last smile before walking out of the

paper in my hand,

a sigh, I put the letter in my back

art studio, I took one last look

so many great memories

biased, but this class

to the desk and there

was always my

night and our graduation was

graduation, so the seniors were

I could to lan’s place before the

I would be surrounded by all

place just before 7

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

moments later and his eyes lit up when he saw

You don’t have your key?"he

use it,"I said,

key back and

to give this back.I have a lot

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

it sounded bitterer than I had

he closed

"So..."I followed.

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