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,"

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

for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on all the

that Brad was talking to a bunch of girls online.He

that he was only talking to the girls,

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

girls in the cheer squad had

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

to Tiff going on and on

slice of toast and butter, and

Mark, and Tyler were already

eyes lit up as soon

your head?"I said to

but the Advil

fill Carrie in on the latest dish

conversation and he slid his chair

did I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he

"No, you were fine,"

more drinking for me for

how are we supposed to have fun?"I

found his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way

and maybe later we

"Yeah, totally,"

are gonna go take a walk around,"Tyler stood up to

“l see yall later,"

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

as Tyler lent his hand out to

he led

gave me

and I ended up

a lot of

a place that rented

the pier.We made it to the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We

one of seven surviving colonial era

was like a kid in a candy

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully and

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

up to the top of the lighthouse, but it

the top, I was all out of

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

put his hands in the

cheated, your big ass was on

you're a sore loser,"he

up, dork,"I shoved

was how

him, I ended up

was quick to catch me and he held onto my arms

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

inch away from each other and my eyes shot

anything else, he leaned his face

"Tyler —"

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

forehead kiss and it lasted for a good few

pulled away and

you on

blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I

laugh and he wrapped his

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

around the pier and we talked about

all day until it was sunset, and we decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a

hooking up or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each other’s

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

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