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,"

end call button and let out a sigh

I was even

him was this difficult, I could

call or text him again for the next few

I should take some time to get my thoughts

ended up writing him a

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

a full

was even longer than my salutatorian

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

last day ever as a high school

of the

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top

nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and

found myself standing in front of the art

this

towards the door

the room, he was putting some papers into

sight of him and I

a deep breath, I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

but he quickly gathered his composure,

course not,"I

and played with the letter in my

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

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

a smart girl, period,"he

me smart and beautiful and

in me when I didn't even see it in

so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about

talk

"We're not?"

you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

his

the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

you tonight,"he said as he pulled

you,"He gave me one last smile before walking out of the

my hand, the

put the letter in my back pocket and turned to my

studio, I

many great memories

this class

and there

he was always my favorite

was a Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

was the night before graduation, so the seniors were having one last huzzah at Madison's

figured I could to lan’s

because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be

arrived at his place just before 7

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

later and his eyes lit up when

You don’t have your key?"he

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

the key

give this back.I have a lot of spares,"he

have a use for it anymore

it sounded bitterer than

closed the

"So..."I followed.

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