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,"

mind, I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the

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

days before the trip, Madison found out that Brad was talking to a bunch of girls online.He had been doing it behind

he never cheated on her and that he was only talking

company because she knew if she was on her own in this

the other girls in the cheer squad had their boyfriends with them on

she was boy-less, so she could focus her energy on being

scoured the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff

much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast and butter,

that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were already sitting on a

Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as

head?"I

the

fill Carrie in on the

conversation and he slid his chair closer

didn’t say anything too weird to you last night, did I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he whispered so that

"No, you were fine,"

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

are we supposed to have

there’s a Burger King nearby.It’s 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 this slice of toast I had on my

maybe later we can hit the

"Yeah, totally,"

a walk

“l see yall later,"

he didn't want

just sat and stared as

he led me away from the

look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled

I ended up spending the entire

was honestly a lot

Burger King, we found a place that rented

it to the 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

of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s

was like a kid in a

dork,"I shoved him playfully and he shoved

one to the top is a rotten egg!"he said as he

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it because I was

reached the top, I was all

felt absolutely refreshing and there was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful blue sea in front

panted and he put his hands in

cheated, your big ass was

sore

dork,"I

realize was how weak

I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on top

to catch me and he held

see him, and at the same

each

do anything else, he leaned his face closer

"Tyler —"

was going to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on

was such a sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a good few

then pulled away and

gonna kiss you on the lips without your permission

I was blushing and I

let out a soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around me, holding

happening here, but he felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I put my arms around him, holding him

I walked around the pier and we talked about

bikes all 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 had

was busy hooking up or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler

waves so when water came up, it 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

up sleeping next to each other as we sat on one of the lounge chairs