Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA’s POV :

"What do you think?"he said.

"I don’t know.Are you?"

He looked at me as if I should know the answer already, but I just stared at him with a puzzled look on my face.

"Every day I woke up and I wished that I'd just die,"he paused for a beat before continuing, "To live a life without you is like not living a life at all.But if that’s what happiness is, then yeah, I guess I’m fucking elated,"

Not even this level of sarcasm could hide the pain and bitterness in his words.I didn’t realize he was feeling all these things.He never seemed to show it.Guess the joke was on me.

For the past month, I pretend like I was happy and fine.If anything, I should have known never to judge a book by its cover.

"Why didn't you say anything?"I croaked.

"We're over and that's it.It doesn’t matter what I feel,"

"But it does matter,"I found the words escaped my lips before I could stop it.

Maybe it was the alcohol in me that was being brave, but I took a step closer to him.

I wanted so much to pull him into my arms and bury my face into his chest.

"Emma,"he warned, but he didn't move away.

"It doesn’t have to be over, does it?"I looked up at him when I was an arm’s length away.  

"Emma —"

"Does it?"I pressed on.

We were standing so close to each other.

I leaned my face upwards and he leaned his head down.I could feel his warm breaths on my face and it was like oxygen to my dry lungs.For the first time in months, my heart was beating so fast and strong, like it was beating again after an absence of life.

When I saw that his lips were only a mere inch away from mine, I closed my eyes and waited in anticipation...

"Hayes?! Is that you?"suddenly a loud voice called out and we pulled away instantly.

"John?"lan squinted his eyes at the two figures standing at the distance behind us.

I looked at the two figures and noticed it was Coach Pullman and Ms.Diaz.I heard rumors that the two were going steady, and by the way they were holding hands with each other, it seemed like the rumors were true.

"Who's that?" Ms.Diaz put her hand over her eyes to see clearer.

Shoot! It’s not good that they saw us together! "Ah, I was just telling Ms.Sinclair that she has to go back to her room.She's breaking curfew,"

lan was quick to react.

"Oh, it’s senior week.Take it easy, Hayes,"Coach Pullman sounded a little drunk.

The two of them then walked away and I let out a sigh I didn't know I was holding.

lan looked relieved too.Thankfully it was dark out here and they didn't seem to notice anything off about us.

"You should go," he said finally.

"But..."I started to speak, but he cut me off quickly.

"And to answer your question, yes, it does,"he paused for a moment before continuing, 

"Just because two people love each other, doesn't mean they have to be together,"

lan’s tone was cold and flat.

He didn’t wait for me to say anything else and he turned away.I wanted to call out after him, but I knew it was useless.

Even though it was clear as day that he still cared about me, he had made his choice.He chose not to be with me and I had to accept that.

"Just because two people love each other, doesn’t mean they have to be together,"

may sound, at least it meant that he still loved me...And with that thought in mind, I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart locket for a few times before I put it over

headed downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on all the

a

her and that he was only talking to the girls, Maddie didn't believe

on her own in this trip, Brad could easily sweep her

the cheer squad had their boyfriends with them on

she could focus her energy on being Maddie's

breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on

didn't feel like eating too much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and a cup of coffee, and we

and Tyler were already sitting on

lit

your head?"I

but the Advil

then went to fill Carrie in on the latest dish

and I tuned out of that conversation and he slid his chair closer

of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he whispered so that I was the only

"No, you were fine,"

stifled a laugh, "No more drinking for me for

we supposed to have fun?"I pouted and

no chick-fill-A, but it's a start?"I found his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better than

maybe later we

"Yeah, totally,"

take a walk around,"Tyler stood up to his feet instantly and announced,"

“l see yall later,"

if he

as Tyler lent his hand

and he

Tiff who gave

and I ended up

was honestly a lot of

place that rented bicycles and we

rode our bikes down the pier.We made it to the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and

seven surviving colonial era

a candy store, I

dork,"I shoved him playfully and he

to the top is a rotten egg!"he said

"Hey! Not fair!"

covered my way with his back.We were laughing

top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it

we finally reached the top, I was all out of

was nothing but miles and

win!"Tyler panted and he put his

big ass was

a sore loser,"he shoved me

up, dork,"I

realize was how weak

ended up almost falling on

he held

to see him, and at the same time he was looking down

faces were a mere inch away from each other and my

anything else,

"Tyler —"

going to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on the top of

and

pulled away and smiled brightly

I'm not gonna kiss you on

curved up my face and I couldn't hide it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved

laugh and he wrapped his arms around me, holding

not to

I walked around the pier and we talked about the

it was sunset, and we decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip of beer the entire day, but we had the most

their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed

was getting cold and Tyler was nice enough to give me his jacket.We thought about going back to the hotel, but unfortunately for Tyler, Mark and Carrie had hijacked his room.I didn't feel good about leaving Tyler to roam around on his

sleeping next to each other as we sat on one of