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.

phone angrily on the bed

eating cereal and watching

on

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

incoherently and staggered towards

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

laptop screen

it that time of the

tried to crack a joke, but

to lan on the phone," I said with

and Tristan exchanged a

then turned to me and asked, "Wait, let

go

at the Plaza because I said I wanted to be like Kevin

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He

Tristan asked.

got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

her! I don’t even like her name,

causing me to

told them about Ally

was always the thorn on my

was convinced that she was

same idea, but Tristan brought up an

be a good friend for her? She did help him start the

the more logical and mature out of all

should

petty wasn't gonna

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

game plan?"

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

important for lan, then she’s important to

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

you, Emmie.That's a

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

I wondered if he thought

tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though on the

about me.What are you guys’

change the

my

"That's a big step,"

and dad are

you?" I said

some

eyes were glued to that laptop

Christmas?

to be

a girlfriend.Your life is so

Sophie commented.

my life’s not that

looked up at me and said,

a real

my eyes at him and he

off girls for now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school,

can

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

more honey more problems.I like my life right

could agree

would be lying if I say I

I love being in a relationship with

sometimes I did think that being single has its

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

and his future career without

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

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

Tristan would definitely rather stay here than be

the one that insisted to go with lan

so if I wanted more time with him, I had

was just so

I was third-wheeling

so doting on

bring her lunch every day and feed her when

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

days of that, I

I stayed in his apartment,

New Year's Eve and our suite reservation was for

the most romantic thing ever, ringing in the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful things

what I’ve witnessed the past three days, the romance bone in me had

a sexy outfit for

spent the night watching TV and eating Cheetos and a tub of ice cream

heard that right.A

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