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,"

I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart locket for a few times before I put

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

trip, Madison found out that Brad was talking to a

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

if she was on her own in this trip, Brad could easily sweep her off her feet

the other girls in the cheer squad had their

and she was boy-less, so she could focus her energy on being Maddie's shield

I listened to Tiff going on and on about Brad

a slice of toast and

Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were

them and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as

head?"I said

but the Advil

fill Carrie in on the latest dish on

out of that conversation and he

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

"No, you were fine,"

laugh, "No more drinking for me for the rest

Then how are we supposed to have fun?"I pouted and

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

we

"Yeah, totally,"

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

“l see yall later,"

it in a way as if he didn't want any of them to come with

and stared as Tyler lent

and he

look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me

I ended up spending the entire

was honestly a lot of

grabbing breakfast at Burger King, we found a place

it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum

of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s so

kid in a candy store, I couldn't help but

dork,"I shoved him playfully

one to the top is a rotten

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

long way up to the top of the lighthouse, but

we finally reached the top,

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

he put his hands in

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

you're a sore loser,"he

dork,"I

I didn’t realize was how weak my footing

him, I ended up almost falling

and he held onto my arms so I

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

mere inch away from each other

anything else,

"Tyler —"

me, but instead his lips landed on the

a sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a

pulled away and smiled brightly

kiss you on the lips without your permission

hide it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt

a soft laugh and he

and nice.I decided not

Tyler and I walked around the pier and we talked about the future as we sipped on

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

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

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