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

in the living room, Sophie was eating cereal and watching TV,

on the school

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

groaned incoherently and staggered

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

up from his laptop screen and watched me

with you? Is it that

to crack a joke,

lan on the

and Tristan exchanged

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

were supposed to go to

I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

even

gag, causing me to laugh a

told them about

the

a time, I was convinced that she was out to

but

is sick and 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 in some

was the more logical and mature out

decided I should

petty wasn't

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

game

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

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

lan's gonna have to spend Christmas taking care of

for you, Emmie.That's

hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I

if he thought I was a

mature, even though on the inside

you guys’ plans for

change the subject.The more I thought about

to New Jersey to meet my parents," Sophie said

"That's a big step,"

are dying to meet

you?" I

here. I got some work to do for the

eyes were glued to

Christmas?

to

yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so

Sophie commented.

my life’s not that bad,"

me and said, "Plus, I already have a

a real

my eyes at him

school, actually make something of myself, you know

you can do both?"Sophie

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

more honey more

agree

would be lying if I say I never thought about

wrong, I love being in a relationship with

think that being single has its

the world without having to worry about

focus on school and his future

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

precious time with your boyfriend? No, but

Tristan would definitely rather stay

was the one that insisted to go with

wanted more time with him,

it was just so

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

was so doting on

bring her lunch every day and feed her

know about, and they would laugh about things as I sat there,

days of that, I gave

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

was the day before New Year's Eve and our

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

past three days, the romance bone in me

a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but I couldn't care

and eating Cheetos and a tub of

you heard that right.A

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

Comments ()

0/255