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 out a

know I was even

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

him again

I should take some time to get

ended up writing him

three pages long, single-spaced Times New Roman font size 12.  After writing that letter, I

with a full A4 page

even longer than my salutatorian

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

day ever as a

the day

my way down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and

by everyone, nodding to

myself standing in front of

quieter on this side of

stepped towards the door and peeked

in the room, he was putting some papers into his

of him and I got nervous all

breath, I knocked gently at the

"Hey,"I said.

gathered his composure, "I was starting to

course not,"I smiled

took a step inside and played

skip the small talk and get right to it,

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

a smart

beautiful and he was doing it

things in me when I didn't even

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about that

gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he pulled his briefcase off

smile before walking out

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

a sigh, I put the letter in my back pocket

art studio, I

were so many great

class was always

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

he was always

and our graduation

graduation, so the seniors were having

figured I could to lan’s place before

tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by all my friends

arrived at his place just before 7

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

opened the door moments later and his eyes

don’t

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

key back and he

don't have to give this back.I have

a

sounded bitterer than I had

as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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