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,"

I pulled out the locket from my back pocket.I stroked the heart

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

the trip, Madison found out that Brad was talking to a

Brad admitted that he never cheated on her and that he was only talking to the girls,

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

was boy-less, so she

I listened to Tiff going on and on about Brad

just grabbed a slice of toast and

Carrie, Mark, and Tyler

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

your head?"I said to

but the Advil

fill Carrie in on

tuned out of that conversation

kind of a blur.Hope I

"No, you were fine,"

more drinking

are 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 to me,"I nodded at

maybe later we

"Yeah, totally,"

a walk around,"Tyler stood up to his

“l see yall later,"

if he didn't want

as

his hand and he led me away from the

Tiff who gave me a puzzled

I ended up

honestly a lot of

we found a place

explored the island and rode our bikes down the 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

a kid in a

such a dork,"I shoved him playfully and he

top is a rotten egg!"he said as he was

"Hey! Not fair!"

covered my way with his back.We were laughing

to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it

we finally reached the top, I was all out

air felt absolutely refreshing and there was nothing but miles and miles

put his

was on

you're a sore loser,"he shoved me

up, dork,"I

didn’t realize was how weak my

ended up almost falling on top of

was quick to catch me and he held

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

each other and my eyes

else, he leaned his face closer

"Tyler —"

kiss me, but instead his lips landed on the top of

was such a sweet forehead kiss and it lasted for

away and smiled brightly

gonna kiss you on the

up my face and I couldn't hide it.Somehow I was blushing and I felt

out a soft laugh and he wrapped his arms around

felt warm and nice.I decided not to overthink things

and I walked around the pier and we talked

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

hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each other’s company as we watched the

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

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