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,"

button and let out a sigh of

I was

with him was this difficult, I could only wonder what

him again for the

I thought I should take some time to

ended up writing

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

with a full

thing was even longer than my salutatorian

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

my last day ever as a

of the day and

my friends and classmates cheering and yelling at the top of their

nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

and I found myself standing

was quieter on this side

towards the

was alone in the room, he was putting some papers into his

hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous all

at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

composure, "I was starting

course not,"I smiled

played

should just skip the small talk and get right to

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know

do.You're a smart

beautiful and he was

I didn't

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about that

not gonna talk here, are

"We're not?"

you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his

to say and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

tonight,"he said as he pulled his

you,"He gave me one last smile before walking

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 and

studio, I took one last look

many great memories

but this class was

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

was always my

Friday night and our graduation

night before graduation, so the seniors

to lan’s place before

goodbye, I would be surrounded by all

at his place

few seconds in silence before

opened the door moments later and his eyes lit up

You don’t have

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

key back and he took

don't have to give this back.I

have a use for it

and it sounded bitterer

trailed as he closed the

"So..."I followed.

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