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,"

in mind, I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the

next morning, Tiff and I got ready and headed downstairs for breakfast.Tiff

a couple days before the trip, Madison found out that Brad was talking to a bunch of

admitted that he never cheated on her and that he was only

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

in the cheer squad had their

she could focus her energy on being Maddie's shield against

as I listened to

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

Mark, and Tyler were

joined them and Tyler's eyes lit up as

how’s your head?"I said to

but the

then went to fill Carrie in on the latest dish on Madison

conversation and he slid

It’s kind of a blur.Hope I didn’t say too many self incriminating things,"he whispered so

"No, you were fine,"

a laugh, "No more drinking

all? Then how are we

that there’s a Burger King nearby.It’s no chick-fill-A, but it's a start?"I found his obsession with chick-fill-A very amusing.And it sounded way better than this slice of toast I had

and maybe later we

"Yeah, totally,"

I are gonna go take a walk around,"Tyler stood up to

“l see yall later,"

way as if he didn't want

sat and stared as Tyler

his hand and he led me away

and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and

ended up spending the entire day

honestly a

we found a place that rented bicycles and we rented these two

pier.We made it to the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and Tyler was

seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, that’s so

in a candy store,

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully

top is a rotten

"Hey! Not fair!"

his back.We were laughing as

up to the top of the lighthouse, but it

we finally reached the top, I was all

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

and he put his

big ass was on my way,"I was

a sore loser,"he shoved

dork,"I shoved him

was how

I ended up almost falling

catch me and he held onto

up to see him, and at the same time he was

were a mere inch away from each other and my eyes shot

else, he leaned his face closer

"Tyler —"

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

forehead kiss and it lasted

and

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

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

out a soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around me,

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

Tyler and I walked 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 entire day, but we had the

or running away from their hook ups, but Tyler and

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

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