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,"

out the locket from my

next morning, Tiff and I got ready and headed downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on all the drama between

a bunch

and that he was only

she was on her own in this trip, Brad could easily

cheer squad had their boyfriends with

so she could focus her energy

scoured the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on and

of toast and butter, and

Carrie, Mark, and Tyler

quickly joined them and Tyler's eyes lit up

your head?"I

the Advil helps,"he

in on

of that conversation and he slid

I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many

"No, you were fine,"

god,"he stifled a laugh, "No more drinking for me for

how are we supposed to have fun?"I

start?"I found his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better than this slice of toast I had on my plate."Sounds good to me,"I nodded at

later we can

"Yeah, totally,"

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

“l see yall later,"

way as if he didn't want any

and stared as Tyler lent his

took his hand and he led

Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I

and I ended up spending the entire day

a

a place that rented bicycles and we rented

lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and Tyler was so cute, he was being a geek admiring

surviving colonial era lighthouse towers,

a candy store, I couldn't

shoved him playfully

a rotten egg!"he said as he was mid-running up the

"Hey! Not fair!"

to push past him but he covered my way with his back.We were laughing as we

was a long way up to the 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 miles of beautiful blue sea in front

panted and he put his hands in

cheated, your big ass was on my way,"I was also

you're a sore loser,"he

up, dork,"I shoved him

was how weak

shoved him, I ended up almost

to catch me and he held onto my arms so I

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

mere inch away from each other and my eyes shot

do anything else,

"Tyler —"

me, but instead his lips landed on the

kiss and

pulled away and smiled

on the

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

he wrapped his arms around me, holding

and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I put

and I walked around the pier and we talked about the future as

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

was busy hooking up or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each other’s company as we watched

will hit up to our knees.We stayed out on the beach until it was completely dark outside.It 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 own, so I decided to keep him

together.In the end, we ended up sleeping next to each other as we sat on one