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.

threw my phone angrily on the bed and

room, Sophie was eating cereal

on

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

laptop screen and

with you? Is it that time of the

a joke, but I wasn't

I just talked to lan on the phone," I said with

and Tristan

asked, "Wait, let me

go to a Van Gogh

I said I wanted to be like Kevin from Home

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He has to work

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

I don’t even like her name, Ally.Alley.Ew,

pretended to gag, causing me

told them about

always the thorn on my

she was

had the same idea, but Tristan brought up

really 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

logical and

decided I should

being petty wasn't gonna get

my Christmas," I said, full of resolution as I sipped a gulp of

game plan?"

the supportive girlfriend that I

lan, then she’s important

care of her, I'll

Emmie.That's a

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

wondered if he thought I was

even though on the inside I

are you guys’ plans

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

bringing Micah to New Jersey to meet my parents," Sophie

"That's a big step,"

are dying

you?" I said

here. I got some

glued

Christmas? Really?" I

to

to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so sad, I'm

Sophie commented.

my life’s not that bad,"

and said, "Plus,

a

eyes at him

now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make

can

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

more honey more problems.I like my life

could agree

if I say I never thought about

love being in

I did think that being single has its

world without having to worry about a boyfriend at home or

focus on school and his future career

you're happy, we're happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can always take the train to

boyfriend? No, but thanks for the

thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay here than

the one that insisted to go

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

was just

I was third-wheeling on Ian and Ally’s

was so doting

every day and feed her when she didn't feel like

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

after three days of that,

and I stayed in

Eve and our suite reservation was for

ever, ringing in the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful

past three days, the romance bone in me

should be shaving my legs or picking out a

TV and eating Cheetos

you heard that

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