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,"

may 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 over

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

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

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

desperate for the company because she knew if she was on her own in this

girls in the cheer squad had their boyfriends with them on

Tiff was around and she was boy-less, so she

the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on

like eating too much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and a cup of coffee, and we

Mark, and Tyler were already sitting on a

Tyler's eyes lit up as soon

how’s your head?"I said

the

went to fill Carrie in on the

out of that conversation and he

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

"No, you were fine,"

laugh, "No more drinking for me for

Then how are we supposed

it's a start?"I found his obsession with chick-fill-A very

we

"Yeah, totally,"

Emma and I are gonna go take a walk around,"Tyler stood

“l see yall later,"

said it in a way as if he

stared as Tyler lent his

hand and he led me away from

to look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I just shrugged at

and I ended up spending

a lot of

Burger King, we found a place that rented bicycles and we rented these two

bikes down the pier.We made 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

of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s

kid in a

dork,"I shoved him

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

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

we finally reached the top, I

was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful

panted and he put

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

you're a sore

up, dork,"I

was how weak my

I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on top of

me and he held onto my arms

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

from each other and my eyes

before I could do anything else, he leaned his face closer to

"Tyler —"

going to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on the top of my

a sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a

away and

on the lips without

hide it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved my

laugh and he wrapped his arms around

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

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

to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip of beer the entire day, but

else was busy hooking up or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each

the 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

up sleeping next to each other as we