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 heart locket for a few times before I put it over my neck and clasped

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

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

her and that he was

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

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

she could focus her energy

scoured the breakfast buffet as I listened to Tiff going on and on

eating too much, so I just grabbed a slice of toast

and Tyler were already

Tyler's eyes lit up as soon as he saw

how’s your head?"I said

but the Advil helps,"he

on the latest

out of that conversation and he slid his chair closer to

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

"No, you were fine,"

stifled a laugh, "No more drinking for me for

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

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 nodded

later we can hit the

"Yeah, totally,"

a walk around,"Tyler stood up to his feet instantly and announced,"

“l see yall later,"

in a way as if he didn't want any of them to come

as Tyler lent his hand

and he led me away

Tiff who gave me a puzzled look and I

I ended up spending the entire

a lot of

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

the lighthouse and it also had a museum.We decided to hit the museum first and

colonial era lighthouse towers,

kid in a candy store, I couldn't

a dork,"I shoved him playfully and he shoved

last one to the top is a rotten

"Hey! Not fair!"

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

long way up to the top of the lighthouse, but it didn’t feel like it because I

finally reached the top, I was all out of

there was nothing but miles and miles of beautiful blue

put

cheated, your big ass was

sore loser,"he shoved me

dork,"I shoved

didn’t realize was

him, I ended up almost

and he held onto my

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

were a mere inch away from each other and my

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

"Tyler —"

me, but instead his lips landed on the

kiss and

then pulled away and

on the

was blushing and I felt embarrassed, so I just shoved my

and he wrapped his arms around

decided not to overthink things

the pier and we talked about the

decided to hit the beach.We didn’t have a sip of beer

their hook ups, but Tyler and I just enjoyed each

to 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

we ended up sleeping next to