Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 83: Home Alone 

EMMA’s POV : 

----- One Month Later - --- - 

I woke up this morning to an alarming text from lan.

lan: Emergency.

Ally’s in the hospital.

Call me ASAP.

I jolted from the bed and quickly called his phone.It rang for a few times before he finally picked up.

"Hey? What’s going on?"I said to the phone.

"It's bad,"he sighed.

"I found her lying unconscious in her apartment last night.I had to bring her to the hospital to get her stomach pumped.She was mixing alcohol and prescription drugs,"

"Oh, no..."I breathed.

"How’s she doing now?"

"She's okay now that they've pumped her insides.But she’s not doing well at all.I'm worried about her,"

"Have you called her parents...or Richard?"

"She explicitly told me not to,"

"So, what can you do?"

"Nothing...I just have to stay with her and make sure she doesn't do anything else stupid,"he scoffed.

"Oh..."

"Yeah..."

Okay, I don’t wanna be a petty bitch, but come on! I know Ally’s going through some hard time, but does she really have to keep doing this to my fiancée? When is this gonna end? It keeps going on and on! Whoa, now.

Slow down there, Emma.

A girl was fighting for her life in the hospital and all I could think about was my relationship.

Those were some very selfish thoughts.

I ended up scolded myself internally for being such an immature brat.

"So, I guess...there’s gonna be a slight change of plans for Christmas?"

I said to him cautiously.

"Yeah, that's also what I wanna talk to you about..."his tone was cautious too.

lan and I had a special rendezvous all planned out for this Christmas.

There was this amazing Van Gogh exhibition at the Met, which was lan’s favorite artist of all time, so I got us tickets for it as his Christmas present.

This year for Christmas, we wanted to give each other the gift of ‘ experiences’ instead of material things.

The Van Gogh exhibition would have been an amazing one full day experience where we could be transported to Paris in the 1880s.

What could be more romantic than that? lan, on the other hand, had booked us the suite room at the Plaza Hotel.

He knew that I grew up watching Home Alone 2 for Christmas, so he wanted to give me the ' Kevin’ package.

We were gonna ride around in a limousine and eat pizza before spending a romantic night together at the hotel suite.

But with just one phone call, all those plans were swirling down the toilet.

"Well, I can always auction off the tickets,"

I sighed as I grabbed the tickets in my hand.

Such a sad reminder of how epic our Christmas would have been.

"Would you mind? I know I’ve done this so many times already..."

"If that’s what you wanna do, it's fine.I understand,"

I tried to sound as casual as possible, hiding away my bitter disappointment.

"But you should still come to New York.We can spend some time together? A night at the Plaza?"

"You think so?"

"Yeah, absolutely.I mean, you still wanna come see me, right?"

"Of course I do,"

"Great.I'll see you this weekend, then?"

"Yeah,"

"I love you, baby girl.Thank you for being so understanding,"

"Sure..."

As soon as I ended the call, I let out the biggest dramatic sigh ever.

on the bed and

eating cereal and watching TV,

on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

up from his laptop screen and

Is it that time

tried to crack a

the phone," I said with another

Tristan exchanged

then turned to me and asked, "Wait, let me guess, he

supposed to go to a Van Gogh

because I said I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He has

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

hate her! I don’t even like her name,

gag, causing me to

told them about Ally

was always the thorn

she was out to ruin

same idea, but Tristan brought

trying to be a good friend for her? She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s

logical and mature out of all

I should listen to

petty wasn't gonna

let this ruin my Christmas," I said, full of resolution as I sipped a gulp of

game plan?" Sophie

just gonna go out there and be the supportive girlfriend that I

then she’s

gonna have to spend Christmas taking care of her, I'll

for you, Emmie.That's a very

her eyes sarcastically.She knew I was trying too hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I were eight years

I wondered if he thought I

tended to overcompensate and act mature, even

are you

next to them, eager to change the subject.The more I thought about

Jersey to meet my parents,"

"That's a big step,"

are dying

you?" I

got some

were glued to that

Christmas? Really?" I

to be enjoying

you need to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad,"

up at me and said, "Plus, I already have a

a real

at

much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make something of

you can

"Nah, I'm good,"he shrugged.

they say, more honey more problems.I like my life right now.It’s

could agree

if I say

wrong, I love

that

Tiff for example, she could travel the world without having

focus on school and his future

happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can always take

boyfriend? No,

was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay

a third-wheel.I was the one that insisted to go with lan

day, so if I wanted more time with him,

it was just so

felt like I was third-wheeling

was so

her lunch every day and feed her when she didn't feel like

had these inside jokes that I didn’t know about, and they would laugh

three days of that, I

hospital by himself and I stayed in his apartment, watching Home Alone, being

Year's Eve and our suite reservation was for

most romantic thing ever, ringing in the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful things

what I’ve witnessed the past three days, the romance

or picking out a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but I couldn't care

TV and eating Cheetos and a tub of ice cream with a

you heard that right.A

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