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.

threw my phone angrily on the bed and walked

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

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.

looked up from his laptop screen and watched

it that time

to crack a joke, but I wasn't

just talked to lan on the phone," I said with

and Tristan

then turned to me and asked, "Wait, let

supposed to go to a

I said I wanted to be like Kevin

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He

Tristan asked.

he’s got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

don’t even like

pretended to gag, causing me to laugh

told them about

always the thorn on

a time, I was convinced that she was out to ruin my relationship with

had the same idea, but

and Ian’s just trying to be a good friend for her? She did

the more logical and mature out of

should

being petty wasn't gonna get me

gonna let this ruin my Christmas," I said, full of resolution

your game plan?" Sophie

the supportive girlfriend

Ally’s important for lan, then she’s important to me

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

for you, Emmie.That's a

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

he thought I

and act mature, even

you guys’ plans

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

to meet my

"That's a big step,"

dad are dying to

you?" I said

here. I got some work

eyes were glued to that laptop

through Christmas?

happen to

life is so sad, I'm

Sophie commented.

not that bad," He shushed

and said, "Plus, I already

a

my eyes at him

off girls for now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make something of myself, you know what I

can do

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

more honey more problems.I like my life

agree with

be lying if I say

love being in

did think that being single has

Tiff for example, she could travel the world without having to worry about a boyfriend at

school and his future

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

No,

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

felt like a third-wheel.I was the one that insisted

so if I wanted more time

was

felt like I was third-wheeling on

was so

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

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

of that, I gave

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

before New Year's Eve and our suite reservation was

in the New Year together in such

past three days, the romance

my legs or picking out a sexy outfit for

eating Cheetos and a tub of ice cream with a

heard that

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