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

in the living room, Sophie was eating

working on the school

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

incoherently and

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

his laptop screen

you? Is it that time of the

to crack a joke, but I

to lan on the

Tristan

and asked, "Wait, let me

go to a Van Gogh

room at the Plaza because I said I wanted to

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

He has to

Tristan asked.

got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

I don’t even like her

pretended to gag, causing me to laugh a

them

was always the thorn on

that she was out to ruin my relationship

the same idea, but Tristan brought up an interesting

friend for her? She did help him start

logical and mature out of all

decided I should listen to

being petty wasn't

enough is enough.I’m not gonna let this ruin my Christmas," I said, full of resolution as I sipped a gulp of

game

gonna go out there and be the supportive girlfriend that I

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

spend Christmas taking care

for you, Emmie.That's

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

if he thought

even though

about me.What are you guys’ plans for

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

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

"That's a big step,"

dad are dying to meet

I said to

some

eyes were glued to

Christmas? Really?"

happen to be

girlfriend.Your life

Sophie commented.

not that bad," He

me and said, "Plus,

a

at him and he

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

you can

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

honey

could agree

lying if I say I never thought

me wrong, I love being in a relationship with

did think that being single has its

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

school and his future career without any soap opera

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

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

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

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

was there every day, so if I wanted more time with

it was just

third-wheeling on Ian and Ally’s

so doting

would bring her lunch every day and feed her when she didn't feel

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

of that, I gave

himself and I stayed in his apartment, watching Home

New Year's Eve and our suite reservation was for

most romantic thing ever, ringing in the New Year together in such

past three days, the romance bone in me had

be shaving my legs or picking out a sexy outfit for

night watching TV and eating Cheetos and a

you heard

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