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.

angrily on the bed and walked

Tristan were in the living room, Sophie was eating cereal and

working on the school

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

groaned incoherently and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

up from his laptop screen and

up with you? Is it that time

a

the phone," I said with another

Tristan exchanged a

and asked, "Wait, let me guess, he bailed on

to go to a Van

I said I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

He has to work

Tristan asked.

got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

hate her! I don’t even

gag, causing

told them about

the thorn on my

that she was out to ruin

the same idea, but

and Ian’s just trying to be a good friend for her? She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s dream.He might

the more logical and mature

I should listen

wasn't

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

your game plan?" Sophie

just gonna go out there and be the supportive girlfriend that

then she’s important

have to spend Christmas taking care of her, I'll be right there with

you, Emmie.That's a very

too hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I were eight years apart,

I wondered if he thought I was a

tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though on

are you

eager to change the subject.The more I thought about it, the more frustrated

Micah to New Jersey to meet my parents," Sophie said

"That's a big step,"

dad are dying to

I said to

just staying here. I got some work to do

eyes were glued to that laptop

Christmas?

happen to be

life is so sad, I'm depressed just

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad," He

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

me, a real

rolled my eyes at him

much drama.I'd rather focus on school,

can do

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

more honey more

could agree

would be lying if I say I never thought

love being in

I did think that being single

could travel the world without having to worry about a boyfriend

school and his future career

happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if

your precious time with your boyfriend? No, but thanks for the offer

would definitely rather stay here than be a third-wheel with

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

there every day, so if I wanted more time with him,

it was just

like I was third-wheeling on Ian

so doting

would bring her lunch every day and feed

inside jokes that I didn’t know about, and

after three days of that, I

Ian go to the hospital by himself and I stayed in his apartment, watching Home Alone, being ironically

was the day before New Year's Eve and our suite reservation

in the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful

what I’ve witnessed the past three days, the romance bone in me had

or picking out a sexy outfit for

Cheetos and a tub of ice cream with a

heard that

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