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

Sophie was eating cereal and watching TV, while Tristan was

on

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

from his laptop screen and watched me

Is it that time

crack a joke,

the phone," I said

and Tristan exchanged

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

supposed to go to a

a room at the Plaza because I said

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He

Tristan asked.

he’s got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

even like

causing me

them

was always the thorn on my

a time, I was convinced that she was out to ruin

had the same idea, but

friend for her? She did help him start the gallery,

logical and mature out of

I should

wasn't gonna

I said,

your game plan?"

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

then she’s

to spend Christmas taking care of

for you, Emmie.That's a

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

I wondered if he thought I was

even though on

about me.What are you guys’ plans

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

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

"That's a big step,"

are

I said

got some work to

eyes were glued to

through Christmas?

happen to be

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

Sophie commented.

life’s not

at me and said, "Plus,

me, a real

eyes at him

drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make something of

can do

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

know what they say, more honey more problems.I like my life right now.It’s

agree

lying if I say I never thought about being

I love being

think that

travel the world without having to worry about a boyfriend at home or long

could focus on school and

to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can

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

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

was the one that

so if I wanted more time with him, I

it was just

was third-wheeling on Ian and

so doting on

and feed her when she

I didn’t know about, and they would laugh about things

days of

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

day before New Year's Eve and our suite reservation was

the New

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

my legs or picking out a sexy outfit for

night watching TV and eating Cheetos and

heard

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