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 walked

Sophie was eating cereal and watching TV,

on the

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

groaned incoherently and staggered towards

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

from his laptop screen

up with you? Is it that time of the

tried to crack a

I just talked to lan on the

Tristan

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

were supposed to go to a Van Gogh

even got us a room at the Plaza because I said I wanted to be like Kevin

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He has

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

I don’t even

causing me to laugh a

told them

the

that she

but

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

logical and mature out

decided I should listen

being petty wasn't gonna

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

your game plan?"

be the supportive girlfriend that I am,"

Ally’s important for lan, then

spend Christmas taking care of her, I'll be right there with

for you, Emmie.That's a

knew I was trying too hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I were eight years apart, I was secretly always insecure about

I wondered if he thought

mature, even

you guys’

to change the

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

"That's a big step,"

dad are dying

I

some work to do

eyes were glued to that laptop

through Christmas? Really?" I

happen to be

a girlfriend.Your life is

Sophie commented.

not that

then looked up at me and said,

a real

my eyes at

girls for now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make something of myself, you know

you can

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

know what they say, more honey more problems.I like my

agree

if I say I never thought

love being

sometimes I did think that being

for example, she could travel the world without having to worry

Tristan here could focus on school and his future career without any soap opera

if you're happy, we're happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored,

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

course, what was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay here than be a third-wheel with me

was the one that insisted to go with lan

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

was just

third-wheeling on

was so doting

and feed her when she didn't

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

after three days of that, I

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

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

the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful things with each

I’ve witnessed the past three days, the romance

be shaving my legs or picking out a sexy outfit for

watching TV and eating Cheetos and a tub of ice cream with a

heard that right.A

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