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,"

out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart locket for a few times

headed downstairs for breakfast.Tiff was filling me in

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

Brad admitted that he never cheated on her and that

desperate for the company because she knew if she was on her own in this trip, Brad could easily sweep her

cheer squad had their boyfriends with them on

Tiff was around and she was boy-less, so she could

to

slice of toast and butter, and

and Tyler

them and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as he

head?"I

but the Advil helps,"he

then went to fill Carrie in on the latest dish on

I tuned out of that conversation and he slid

I didn’t say 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

"No, you were fine,"

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

we

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

later we

"Yeah, totally,"

walk around,"Tyler stood up to

“l see yall later,"

way as if he didn't want

friends just sat and stared as Tyler lent his hand out to

and he led me away from

Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I

and I ended up

a lot of

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

had a museum.We decided to hit the

one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers,

a kid in a candy store, I couldn't

him

top is a rotten egg!"he said

"Hey! Not fair!"

his back.We were laughing as we pushed past each other and climbed

but it didn’t feel like it

we finally reached the top, I

air felt absolutely refreshing and there was nothing but miles

win!"Tyler panted and he put his hands

ass was on my

a sore loser,"he

up, dork,"I shoved

I didn’t realize was how weak my

I shoved him, I ended up almost

and he held onto my arms so

and at the same time he was looking

each other and my eyes

anything else, he leaned his face

"Tyler —"

was going to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on the top of my

sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a

and smiled brightly

kiss you on the lips without

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

he wrapped his arms around me, holding me

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

around the pier and we talked about

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

away from their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each other’s company

the waves so when 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 decided to keep

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