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

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

on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

and staggered towards

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

looked up from his laptop screen and watched

with you? Is it that time of

tried to crack a joke, but I wasn't

talked to lan on the phone," I said with

and Tristan exchanged a

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

supposed to go

Plaza because I said

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He has

Tristan asked.

he’s got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

don’t even like

causing me to laugh

told them about Ally

the thorn

she was out to ruin my relationship

but Tristan brought up an interesting

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 feel indebted to her

and mature out of all

I should

petty wasn't gonna get

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

your game plan?" Sophie

there and be the supportive girlfriend that I am," I said

lan, then she’s important to

care of her, I'll be right

for you, Emmie.That's a very mature

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

I wondered if he thought I was a

mature, even though

are you

to them, eager to change the subject.The more

New Jersey to meet my

"That's a big step,"

and dad are dying

about you?" I said

here. I got some work

glued to that

Christmas?

to be

you need to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so sad, I'm depressed just

Sophie commented.

my life’s not that bad," He shushed

me and said, "Plus, I already

a real

my eyes at him and he

school, actually make something of myself,

can do both?"Sophie

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

they say, more honey more problems.I like

agree

be lying if I say I never thought about

me wrong, I love

that

having to

could focus on school and his future career without any soap

"I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can always take

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

was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay

one that insisted to go with lan

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

it was

felt like I was third-wheeling on Ian and

was so doting on

would bring her lunch every day and feed her when

that I didn’t know about, and they would laugh about things as I sat there, scratching

of that,

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

New Year's Eve and our suite reservation

thing ever, ringing in the New Year together in

three days, the romance bone in

a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but

night watching TV and eating Cheetos and a

you heard that

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255