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,"

pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart locket for a few times before I put it over my neck and clasped

breakfast.Tiff was

to a bunch of girls online.He had been doing it behind her

admitted that he never cheated on her and that he was

was on her own in this trip, Brad could easily

other girls in the cheer squad had

so she could focus her energy

breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff

a slice of toast and butter, and a cup of coffee,

Tyler were

and Tyler's eyes lit up as soon

how’s your head?"I

the

on the latest

out of that conversation and he slid his chair closer

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

"No, you were fine,"

"No more drinking for me

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

heard 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 on my plate."Sounds

maybe later we can hit the

"Yeah, totally,"

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

“l see yall later,"

if he didn't want any

sat and stared as

his hand and he led me

to look at Carrie and Tiff who gave me a puzzled look

I ended up spending the entire

was honestly a lot

a place that rented bicycles and

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 the colonial

surviving colonial

was like a kid in a candy store,

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully and he shoved me

rotten egg!"he said

"Hey! Not fair!"

but he covered my way with his back.We were laughing as

way up to the top of the lighthouse, but

finally reached the top, I was

open air felt absolutely refreshing and there was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful blue sea in front

he put his hands

cheated, your big ass was

a sore loser,"he shoved

up, dork,"I

I didn’t realize was

when I shoved him, I ended up almost falling on top of

to catch me and he held onto my

to see him, and at the same time he was looking down to

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

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

"Tyler —"

instead his lips landed on the top

and it lasted

pulled away and smiled brightly at

you on the lips without your

blushing and I felt

he wrapped his

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

around the pier and we talked about the future

until it was sunset, and we decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip of beer the entire

but Tyler and I

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

next to each other as we sat on one of