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,"

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 for a few times before

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

a couple days 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 was heartbroken,

cheated on her and that

if she was on her

cheer squad had

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

to Tiff going on and on about Brad

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

and Tyler

quickly joined them and Tyler's eyes lit up

your head?"I said to

the Advil helps,"he

on the latest dish on

and I tuned out of that conversation and

I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he whispered so that I was the only person that

"No, you were fine,"

a laugh, "No more drinking for

all? Then how are we supposed

chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better than this slice of toast I had

later we

"Yeah, totally,"

take a walk around,"Tyler stood up

“l see yall later,"

in a way as if he didn't want any of them to

stared as Tyler lent his

hand and he led me away from the

Carrie and Tiff who gave

and I ended up spending the entire day

a

at Burger King, we found a place that rented bicycles

rode our 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 was so cute, he was being a geek admiring

seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers,

a candy store, I couldn't

him

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

with his back.We were laughing as we

lighthouse, but it didn’t feel

finally reached the top, I

was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful

he put his hands

big ass was

sore loser,"he

dork,"I shoved

was how weak my

I ended up almost falling on top

to catch me and he held onto my arms so

see him, and at the same time he was looking

a mere inch away from each other

before I could do anything else, he

"Tyler —"

me, but instead his lips

sweet forehead kiss and it

pulled away and

not gonna kiss you on the lips without your permission ever

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

he wrapped his arms around

felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things and I put my arms around him, holding him

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

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 we

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

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 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 I

more music together.In the end, we ended up sleeping next to