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

didn’t know I was

difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face to

or text him again for the next

wanted to, but I thought I should take some time

ended up writing

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

with a full

was even longer than my salutatorian

knew that I was ready and I had everything I wanted to say

ever

the day

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top

everyone, nodding to Tiff and

found myself

quieter on this

I stepped towards the door and

in the room, he was putting some papers into his

at the sight of him and I got nervous

a deep breath, I knocked gently at the door and his head whipped up to

"Hey,"I said.

he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I

step inside and played

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

being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting my train

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

do.You're a smart girl,

me smart and beautiful

in me when I didn't

which made saying

about

talk

"We're not?"

come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer for

lot to say and the school ground was probably not the

"Okay,"I said finally.

as he pulled his briefcase off

smile before walking

looked down to the scrunched up paper in my hand, the letter

sigh, I put the letter in my back pocket and turned

art studio, I

were so many

class was always my favorite class

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

was always

a Friday night and

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

I could to lan’s

I tell him my final goodbye, I would be

place just before 7

his door for a few seconds in silence before I could bring myself

moments later and his eyes lit up when he

don’t have

 "I do, but I don’t know if I should use it,"I said, revealing

him the key back and he

have to give this back.I

don’t have a

sounded bitterer than I

he closed

"So..."I followed.

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