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,"

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

for breakfast.Tiff

Madison found out that Brad was talking to a bunch of girls

cheated on her and that he was only talking to the girls, Maddie didn't believe

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

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

she could

breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on and

like eating too much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast and

that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were already sitting on a

lit

head?"I said to

but the Advil

in on

and I tuned out of that conversation and he slid his chair closer

I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self

"No, you were fine,"

thank god,"he stifled a laugh, "No more drinking for

Then how are we supposed to

heard that there’s 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 than this slice of toast I had on my plate."Sounds good

we can hit

"Yeah, totally,"

take a walk around,"Tyler stood

“l see yall later,"

said it in a way as if he didn't

stared as Tyler lent

his hand and he led me away from the

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

and I ended up spending the entire day

a

King, we found a place that rented bicycles and

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

seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s

kid in a

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully

last one to the top is a rotten egg!"he said as he was mid-running

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel

we finally reached the top,

but

he put his hands in the

big ass was

a sore

dork,"I

realize was how weak my

I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on top

quick to catch me and he held

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

inch away from each

before I could do anything else, he leaned

"Tyler —"

to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on

forehead kiss and it lasted for a good

pulled away and smiled

I'm not gonna kiss you on the lips without your permission ever

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

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

decided not to overthink things and I put my arms around

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

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

away from their hook ups, but Tyler

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 leaving Tyler to roam around on his own, so

the end, we ended up sleeping next to each other as we sat on one of the lounge chairs out at the