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

didn’t know I was

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

didn’t call or text him again for the next

but I thought I should

ended up writing

size 12. 

up with a full A4 page

even longer than my salutatorian graduation

ready and I had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it was already the last day

day ever as a high school

had finished my last class of the

down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates

by everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

myself standing in front of

on this side

I stepped towards the door and peeked

alone in the room, he

of him and I

at the door and his

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I

took a step inside and played with

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

said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how that

a smart

smart and beautiful and he was doing

in me when I didn't

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my place

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his offer

say and the school ground was

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase off the

one last smile before walking out of

scrunched up paper in my hand, the

put the letter in

left the art studio, I took one last look

many great memories

but this class was

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

was always my favorite teacher

was a Friday night and our graduation was

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one

I could to lan’s place before the

final goodbye, I would

place just before 7

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

door moments later and his eyes lit up when he

don’t have

if I should use it,"I said, revealing the key he

the key back and he

this back.I have

don’t have a use for it anymore

and it sounded bitterer than I had

trailed as he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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