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.

my phone angrily on the bed

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

working on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

and staggered

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

looked up from his laptop screen and watched me

it

tried to crack a joke,

I just talked to lan on the phone,"

Tristan exchanged

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

go to a Van

I said I wanted to be like Kevin from Home

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

He has to work

Tristan asked.

he’s got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

hate her! I don’t even like her

pretended to gag, causing

them about Ally

was always the

time, I was convinced that she was out

idea, but Tristan brought up

to be a good friend for her? She

and mature out of all

should

being petty wasn't gonna get

not gonna let this ruin my Christmas," I said, full of resolution as I sipped a gulp

your game plan?" Sophie

go out there and be the supportive girlfriend

important for lan, then she’s important to me

to spend Christmas taking care of her,

for you, Emmie.That's

lan and I were eight

I wondered if he thought

tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though on the

are you guys’ plans for

them, eager to change the subject.The more I

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

"That's a big step,"

dad are

about you?" I said

got some work to do for the

glued

through Christmas? Really?"

happen to be

girlfriend.Your life is

Sophie commented.

not

looked up at me and said,

a real

rolled my eyes at him and

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

you can do both?"Sophie

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

say, more honey more problems.I like my life right

could agree with

say I never thought about being

me wrong, I love being in

sometimes I did think that

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

and his future career

happy, we're happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey,

with your boyfriend? No, but thanks for the offer though," he

course, what was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay

one that insisted to go with lan to

was there every day, so if I wanted more

it was just

third-wheeling

was so doting

every day and feed

and they would laugh about things as

after three days of that, I gave

I stayed in his apartment, watching Home Alone, being ironically

New Year's Eve

to be the most romantic thing ever, ringing in the New Year together in

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

a sexy outfit

and eating Cheetos and

heard that right.A

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