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,"

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

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

out that Brad was talking to a bunch of girls online.He had been doing it behind her back for months.Maddie

cheated on her and that he

if she was on her own in this trip, Brad

the cheer squad had their boyfriends with

Tiff was around and she was boy-less, so she could focus her energy on being

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

just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and

Mark, and Tyler were already sitting

lit up as soon

head?"I

the

then went to fill Carrie in on the latest dish

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

you last night, did I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say

"No, you were fine,"

more drinking for me for the rest of

all? Then how are we supposed to have

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

maybe later we

"Yeah, totally,"

a walk

“l see yall later,"

said it in a way as if he didn't want any of

and stared as Tyler lent his

hand and he led

to look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled

ended up spending the

a

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

explored the island and rode our bikes down the pier.We made it to the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided

seven surviving colonial

in a candy store, I couldn't

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like

finally reached the top, I was

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

he put his hands in

big ass was

sore

dork,"I shoved

was how

when I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on

me and he held onto my arms

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

a mere inch away from each other and

could do anything else, he leaned his face closer

"Tyler —"

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

forehead kiss and it lasted for a

then pulled away and

worry, I'm not gonna kiss you on the lips without

was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved my face to his

laugh and he wrapped his arms

felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things

around the pier and

was sunset, and we decided to hit

busy hooking up or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler

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

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