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,"

thought in mind, I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart locket for

and I got ready and headed downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on

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

on her and that he was only talking to the girls, Maddie

the company because she knew if she was on her own

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

boy-less, so she could

the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on and on about Brad and

just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and a cup of coffee, and we

Mark, and Tyler were already

quickly joined them and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as he

head?"I

but the Advil helps,"he

went to fill Carrie in on the

and I tuned out of that conversation and he slid his

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,"

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

all? Then how are we supposed to

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 plate."Sounds good to me,"I

later we

"Yeah, totally,"

are gonna go take a walk around,"Tyler

“l see yall later,"

way as if he didn't want any of them

as Tyler

his hand and he led me away

to look at Carrie and Tiff who gave

up spending the entire

a lot of

found a place that rented bicycles and

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

surviving colonial era lighthouse

was like a kid in a candy

him

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

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

the top, I was all

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

put his hands

your big ass was on

a sore loser,"he shoved me

dork,"I shoved

was how

ended

catch me and he held onto

at the same time he was looking down to see

were a mere inch away from each other and

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

"Tyler —"

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

and it lasted for

away and smiled brightly at

kiss you on the lips without

smile curved up my face and I couldn't hide it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved my face

he wrapped his arms around me,

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

lighthouse, Tyler and I walked around the pier and we talked about the future

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

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

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

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