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,"

the end call button and let out

was even

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

call or text him again for the

thought I should take some

ended up writing him a

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

ended up with a full

longer than my salutatorian graduation

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

ever as a

of the day and I couldn't help but feel

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

nodding to Tiff and Carrie,

and I found myself

quieter on this side of

stepped towards the door

alone in the room, he

breath hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous all

gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

quickly gathered his composure,

not,"I

played with the letter in my

if I should just skip 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.

even know how

do.You're a smart girl,

beautiful and he

when I didn't even

was so grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

about

talk

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

about his offer

had a lot to say and the school ground was probably not

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his briefcase off

me one last smile before walking out

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

I put the letter in my back pocket and

the art studio, I took one last look

so many great

but this class

the desk and there was a plague with lan’s

always my favorite teacher

a Friday night and our graduation

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

to lan’s place before the

final goodbye, I would be surrounded

at his place just before 7

for a few seconds in silence before I could

opened the door moments later and his eyes lit

You don’t have

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

the key back

to give this back.I have a lot of

I should.I don’t have a use for it anymore

replied, and it sounded bitterer

trailed as he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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