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,"

tapped the end call button and

was even

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

text him again for the next

to, but I thought I should take some time to get my

writing him a

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

up with a

longer

I wanted to say to

ever as a high

class of the day and I couldn't help but feel

I saw all my friends and

to Tiff

I found myself standing in front of the art

quieter on this

the door

alone in the room, he was putting some papers

hitched at the sight of him and I got nervous

I knocked gently at the door and

"Hey,"I said.

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

not,"I smiled

step inside and played with the letter in

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right

suddenly,

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

don’t even know how that

a smart girl, period,"he said

beautiful and he was

me when I didn't even see

for him, which made saying goodbye even

about that

gonna talk here,

"We're not?"

don’t you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

and the school ground

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his

smile before

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

I put the letter in my back pocket and

before I left the art studio, I

many

class was always my

then darted to the desk and there was

he was always my favorite teacher

a Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

so the seniors were

could to

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

place

a few seconds in silence before I could

later and his eyes lit up when he

You don’t have your key?"he

should use it,"I said,

key

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

don’t have a use for it

it sounded bitterer

closed

"So..."I followed.

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