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,"

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

downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in on all the drama between Madison

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

never cheated on her and that he was

was on her own in this

cheer squad had their boyfriends with

was around and she was boy-less, so she could focus

breakfast buffet as I listened to

I just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and a cup of coffee, and we went to find our

found that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were

and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as he

your head?"I said

but the Advil

in on the latest dish on

conversation and he slid

weird to you last night, 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

we supposed to have fun?"I

a Burger King nearby.It’s no chick-fill-A, but it's a start?"I found his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better

later we can hit the

"Yeah, totally,"

take a walk around,"Tyler stood up to his feet

“l see yall later,"

a way as if he didn't want any

just sat and stared as Tyler lent

he led

turned back to look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and

I ended up

honestly a lot of

found a place that rented

lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and Tyler was so cute, he was being

seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers,

like a kid in a candy store, I

him

is a rotten egg!"he said

"Hey! Not fair!"

but he covered my way with his back.We were laughing as we pushed past each other and climbed up the stairs

but it didn’t feel

we finally reached the top, I

nothing but miles and miles

he put his hands

cheated, your big ass was on

a sore loser,"he

dork,"I shoved him

I didn’t realize was how weak my

ended up almost falling

he held onto my arms so I

the same time he was looking

were a mere inch away from each other and my eyes shot open

before I could do anything else, he leaned his

"Tyler —"

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

forehead kiss and it

pulled away and

you on the lips without your permission

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

soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around me, holding me

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

the pier and we talked about the

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

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

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

ended up sleeping next to each other as we sat on one of the lounge