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

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

working on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

incoherently and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

looked up from his laptop screen and

you? Is it

a joke, but I

lan on the phone," I said with another

and Tristan exchanged a

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

were supposed to go to a Van

the Plaza because I said I wanted to be like Kevin from Home

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He has to work

Tristan asked.

he’s got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

her! I don’t even

pretended to gag, causing me to laugh a

them about Ally

always the

she was out to

the same idea, but

trying to be a good friend for her? She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s dream.He might feel

logical and mature out of all of

decided I should

petty wasn't gonna get me

my Christmas," I said, full of resolution

game plan?"

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

important for lan, then she’s

gonna have to spend Christmas taking care of her, I'll

Emmie.That's a very

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

wondered if he

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

you guys’ plans for

change the subject.The

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

"That's a big step,"

dad are

I said to

some work to do

were glued to that laptop

Christmas? Really?"

happen to be

need to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad," He

me and said,

a

my eyes at

rather focus on school, actually make something of myself, you know

can

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

you know what they say, more honey more problems.I

could agree with

would be lying if I say

love being in a relationship

did think that being single

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

school and his

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

boyfriend? No, but thanks for the offer though," he

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

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

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

was just

like I was third-wheeling on Ian

so doting

lunch every day and feed her when she didn't

always had these inside jokes that I didn’t know about, and they would laugh about things as I sat there, scratching

of

I

day before New Year's Eve and our

the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful

past three days, the romance bone in me had

a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but

watching TV and eating Cheetos and

heard that

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