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,"

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

for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on

that Brad was talking to a

never cheated on her and that he was only talking to the girls,

on her own in this trip, Brad could easily sweep

cheer squad

and she was boy-less, so she

buffet as I listened to Tiff

toast and butter, and

that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler

them and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as

head?"I said

the Advil helps,"he

on the

out of that conversation and he slid

didn’t say anything too weird to you last night, did I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say

"No, you were fine,"

thank god,"he stifled a laugh, "No more drinking for me for the rest of the

are we supposed to

very amusing.And

later we

"Yeah, totally,"

a walk

“l see yall later,"

it in a way as if he

stared as Tyler

took his hand and he led me away from the

Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I just

up spending

was honestly a lot of

found a place that

it to the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to

of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s

a kid in a candy store, I couldn't

him playfully and he shoved me

the top is a rotten egg!"he said

"Hey! Not fair!"

with his back.We were laughing as we pushed past each other and climbed

a long way up to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it because I was too

the top, I was

refreshing and there was nothing but miles and

panted and he put

ass was on my way,"I

sore loser,"he

dork,"I

didn’t realize was how

shoved him, I ended up almost falling on top of

to catch me and he

and at the same time

from each other and my eyes shot

do anything else, he

"Tyler —"

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

a sweet forehead kiss and it

pulled away and smiled brightly at

you on the lips

my face and I couldn't hide it.Somehow I was blushing

laugh and he wrapped his arms around me, holding me

he felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I

pier and we talked about the future as we sipped on

was sunset, and we decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip

running away from their hook ups, but Tyler and I just

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

talked all night and listened to more music together.In the end, we ended up sleeping next to each other