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 a

didn’t know I was even holding my

phone with him was this difficult, I could

or text him

I should

writing him

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

with a

thing was even longer

had everything I wanted to say to him prepared, it

last day ever as

class of the

all my friends

everyone, nodding to Tiff and Carrie, and smiling at

found myself

this side of

towards the door and

alone in the room, he was

at the sight of him and I got nervous all over

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

"Hey,"I said.

aback, but he quickly gathered his composure, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten about

course not,"I smiled

and played with

the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read

on being salutatorian,"he said suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know

a smart girl,

smart and beautiful

when I didn't even see it in

grateful for him, which made saying goodbye even harder

um, about

gonna talk

"We're not?"

come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer for

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

"Okay,"I said finally.

said as he pulled his briefcase

last smile before walking out of

hand, the letter containing everything

put the letter in my back pocket and

art studio, I took one last

so many

this class was always my favorite

the desk and there

was always

Friday night and our graduation was Saturday

graduation, so the seniors were having one

I could to lan’s place before the

worked out perfectly because after I tell him my final goodbye, I would be surrounded by

his place

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on the

and his eyes lit up when

don’t

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

handed him the key back

this back.I

I should.I don’t have a use

and it sounded bitterer than

he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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