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,"

as that 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

downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in

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

he never cheated on her and that

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

all the other girls in the cheer squad had their boyfriends

was boy-less, so she

listened to Tiff going

of toast and

found that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler

quickly joined them and Tyler's eyes lit up

your head?"I

the Advil

on the latest dish on

tuned out of that conversation and

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

"No, you were fine,"

laugh, "No more drinking for me for the rest

are we supposed

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

maybe later we can hit

"Yeah, totally,"

walk around,"Tyler stood up

“l see yall later,"

in a way as if he

friends just sat and stared as Tyler lent his

hand and he led

Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I just

and I ended up spending the entire

was honestly a lot

King, we found a place that

lighthouse and it also had a museum.We

surviving colonial era lighthouse towers,

a kid in a candy store, I

dork,"I shoved him playfully and he shoved

a rotten egg!"he

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

up to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like

the top, I was

absolutely refreshing and there was nothing but miles

and he put his

big ass was

sore loser,"he shoved me

dork,"I

was how weak my footing

I ended up almost falling on

was quick to catch me and he

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

away from each

else, he

"Tyler —"

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

sweet forehead kiss and it lasted

and smiled brightly

I'm not gonna kiss you on

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

let out a soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around me, holding me

what was happening here, but he felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I put my arms

pier and

our bikes all day until it was sunset, and we decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip of beer the entire day, but

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

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

next to each other