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

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

that Brad was talking to a bunch

Brad admitted that he never cheated on her and that he was only talking to the

was on her own in this trip, Brad could easily sweep her

the other girls in the cheer squad had

was boy-less, so she could focus her energy on being Maddie's

I listened to Tiff going on

a slice of toast and butter, and a

that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were already sitting

Tyler's eyes lit up as soon

head?"I said

but the

to fill Carrie in on the latest

tuned out of that conversation and he slid

I? It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he whispered so that I was the only person that

"No, you were fine,"

laugh, "No more drinking for me for the rest of the

how are we supposed

his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better than this slice

maybe later we can

"Yeah, totally,"

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

“l see yall later,"

as if he didn't want any of

and stared as

hand and he led me away from the

Tiff who gave

ended up spending the entire

a lot of

place that rented bicycles and

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

one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse

a candy store, I

shoved him playfully

the top is a rotten egg!"he said as he

"Hey! Not fair!"

his back.We were laughing as we pushed

was a long way up to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel

top, I was all

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

win!"Tyler panted and he put

ass was on my way,"I was also

sore loser,"he shoved me

dork,"I shoved

was how weak my footing

I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on

and he held onto

the

were a mere inch away from each other and my

anything else, he leaned his face

"Tyler —"

instead his lips

sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a good few

pulled away and smiled brightly at

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

it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved my face to

and he wrapped his arms around

didn’t know what was happening here, but he felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I put

walked around the pier and we talked about the future as we

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

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

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

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