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 walked

were in the living room, Sophie was eating

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.

looked up from his laptop screen and watched

you? Is it that time of the month

a joke, but I

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

Tristan exchanged a

turned to me and asked, "Wait, let me

go to a Van

I said I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He has to

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

don’t even like her

causing me to laugh a

told them about Ally

the thorn

convinced that she was

idea, but

She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s dream.He might feel

the more logical and mature out of all

decided I should

being petty wasn't gonna

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

your game plan?"

be the supportive girlfriend that I

important for lan, then she’s important

care of her, I'll be right there with

for you, Emmie.That's a

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

he thought I

I tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though on the inside I was

are you

to change the subject.The more

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

"That's a big step,"

and dad are dying to meet

you?" I said to

here. I got some

eyes were glued to that laptop

through Christmas? Really?"

happen to

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

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad," He shushed

at me and said, "Plus,

me, a real

at him

girls for now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make something

can do

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

say, more honey more problems.I like

agree

would be lying if I say

get me wrong, I love

that being single

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

focus on school and his future career without any soap

you're happy, we're happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can always take the train to the

precious time with your boyfriend? No, but

what was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay here than be a third-wheel with me and

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

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

was just so

like I was third-wheeling on Ian and Ally’s

was so doting

her lunch every day and feed her when she

jokes that I didn’t know about, and

of that,

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

Eve and our suite reservation

ringing in the

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

out a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but

spent the night watching TV and eating Cheetos and a

heard that

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