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

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

working on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

groaned incoherently and

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

up from his laptop screen and watched me

you? Is it that time

tried to crack a joke, but

lan on the

and Tristan exchanged a

me and asked, "Wait, let

were supposed to go to a Van Gogh

I said I wanted to be like Kevin from

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He has

Tristan asked.

he’s got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

even like

pretended to gag, causing me to laugh a

told them about Ally

the thorn on

was convinced that she was out

idea, but Tristan brought

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

logical and mature out of

I should listen to

petty wasn't

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

your game plan?" Sophie

the supportive girlfriend that

important for lan, then she’s important to me

have to spend Christmas taking care

for you, Emmie.That's

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

he thought I

even though on the inside I was

me.What are you guys’

change the subject.The

Jersey to meet my parents," Sophie said and she did a little

"That's a big step,"

dad are dying to meet

I said to

here. I got some work to do for the

glued to

through Christmas? Really?" I

to be enjoying

life

Sophie commented.

not that bad,"

then looked up at me and

me, a

at him

focus on school, actually make something of

you can

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

know what they say, more honey more problems.I like my life right

agree with

say I never thought about being

wrong, I love being in a relationship with

sometimes I did think that being single has its

for example, she could travel the world without having to worry

focus on school and his future career without any soap opera

"And hey, if you get bored, you can always take the train to the

time with your boyfriend? No,

thinking? Tristan would definitely rather

third-wheel.I was the one that insisted to

day, so if I wanted more time with him, I had to

was just

was third-wheeling on Ian

so

lunch every day and feed her when she

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

three days of

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

New Year's Eve and

the New Year together in such a beautiful

I’ve witnessed the past three days, the romance

legs or picking out a sexy

TV and eating Cheetos and

heard that

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