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,"

sad as 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

for breakfast.Tiff was filling

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

her and that he

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

other girls in the cheer squad had their boyfriends with them on this

was around and she was boy-less, so she could focus her energy on being

buffet as I listened to Tiff going on and on about Brad

I just grabbed a slice of toast

that Carrie, Mark, and Tyler were

them and Tyler's eyes lit up

your head?"I said

but the

to fill Carrie in on

and I tuned out of that conversation and he slid his

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

"No, you were fine,"

laugh, "No more drinking for me for

are we supposed to have

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 good to me,"I

we can

"Yeah, totally,"

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

“l see yall later,"

he didn't want any of them to

friends just sat and stared as

hand and he led me

who gave me a puzzled

up

honestly a

a place that rented bicycles and we rented these

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 era lighthouse towers,

in a candy store, I

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully

is a rotten egg!"he said as he was

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

way up to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it because I was too busy being

reached the top, I was all

there was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful blue

win!"Tyler panted and he put his hands

cheated, your big ass was on my way,"I was also

sore loser,"he

up, dork,"I

realize was

ended up almost falling on

me and he held onto my arms so I didn't

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

a mere inch away from each other and my eyes

do anything else,

"Tyler —"

to kiss me, but instead his lips landed on the

sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for a good few

then pulled away and smiled

on the

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

and he wrapped

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

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

around and 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

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

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

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