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

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

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

on her and that he was

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

squad had their

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

the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going

didn't feel like eating too much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast and butter, and a

Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were

lit up as soon as

your head?"I said to

but the Advil helps,"he

then went to fill Carrie in on the latest dish on

of that conversation and he slid

anything too weird to you last night, did 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 could

"No, you were fine,"

"No more drinking for

at all? Then how are we supposed to have fun?"I pouted

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

and maybe later we can hit

"Yeah, totally,"

are gonna go take a walk around,"Tyler

“l see yall later,"

he didn't want any of them to

friends just sat and stared as Tyler lent his hand out

he led me away from

at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I just shrugged at

and I ended up spending the

a lot of

breakfast at Burger King, we found a place that rented bicycles

a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and Tyler was so cute, he was being a geek

surviving colonial era

in a candy

such a dork,"I shoved him

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

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

up to the top of the lighthouse, but it

we finally reached the top, I

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

he put

big ass was on my way,"I

a sore loser,"he shoved

dork,"I

I didn’t realize was how weak my footing

ended up

me and he held onto my arms so I

and at the same time he was looking down to see

were a mere inch away from each

before I could do anything else, he leaned his face closer to

"Tyler —"

instead his

was such a sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a good

and smiled brightly

gonna kiss you on the

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

out a soft laugh and he

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

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

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

away from their hook ups, but Tyler

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

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