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

room, Sophie was eating cereal and watching TV, while Tristan

working on the school

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

groaned incoherently and staggered towards the

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

from his laptop screen and watched me

Is it that

tried to crack a

to lan on the phone,"

and Tristan

"Wait, let

go to

a room at the Plaza because I said I wanted

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

happened? He

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

even like her name,

pretended to gag, causing me to laugh a

them

always the thorn on my

time, I was convinced that she was out to ruin

idea, but Tristan brought up an

is sick and Ian’s just trying to be a good friend for her? She did

was the more logical and mature out of

I should listen

being petty wasn't

this ruin my Christmas," I

your game

the supportive girlfriend

Ally’s important for lan, then

taking care

Emmie.That's

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

he thought

even though on the inside I was

are you

change the subject.The more I thought about it, the

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

"That's a big step,"

are dying to

you?" I said

just staying here. I got some work to

glued

Christmas? Really?"

happen to be

life is so

Sophie commented.

my life’s not

then looked up at me and said, "Plus, I already have a

me, a

eyes at him and

on school, actually make something of myself, you know

can do both?"Sophie

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

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

agree with

lying if I say I never thought about being

me wrong, I love being

that being single has its

she could travel the world without having to worry about a

and his future career without

said to Tristan, "And hey,

boyfriend? No,

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

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

there every day, so if I wanted more

it was just so

I was third-wheeling on Ian and Ally’s

so doting

day and feed her when she didn't feel

I didn’t know about, and

of that, I

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

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

ever, ringing in the

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

or picking out a sexy

eating Cheetos and a tub of ice cream

you heard that right.A

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