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 a sigh

I was even holding my

difficult, I could only wonder what our conversation face

or text him again for the next

should

ended up writing him a

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

ended up with a full A4 page of

thing was even longer than my salutatorian

everything I wanted to say to him

ever as a high school

class of the day and I

way down the halls, I saw all my friends and classmates cheering and yelling

nodding to Tiff and

I found myself standing in

on this side

stepped towards the door and peeked

the room, he was putting some

sight of him and

gently at the door and his head whipped

"Hey,"I said.

composure, "I was starting to wonder if

course not,"I

and played with

wondered if I should just skip the small talk and get right to it, open the letter and read everything out loud to

suddenly, cutting

"Thank you,"I laughed nervously.

know how

a smart girl, period,"he

always called me smart and beautiful and

saw things in me when I didn't even

for him, which made saying

about that

talk here,

"We're not?"

you come by my

"Um...what time?"

"Six? Seven?"

thought about his offer

to say and the school ground was probably

"Okay,"I said finally.

he pulled his

one last smile before walking out of the

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

I put the letter in my back pocket and turned to

before I left the art studio, I took one last

so many great

being biased, but this class

and there was a plague with

always my

a Friday night and our graduation was

so the seniors were having one last huzzah

to lan’s place

I would be surrounded by all

at his place just before 7

seconds in silence before I could bring myself to knock on

later and his eyes lit

You don’t

use it,"I said, revealing

handed him the key back and he took

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

have a

sounded bitterer than I had

trailed as he closed the door

"So..."I followed.

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