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

was eating cereal and watching

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.

from his laptop screen and watched

Is it

tried to crack a

talked to lan on the phone," I

and Tristan exchanged a

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

were supposed to go to a Van Gogh

the Plaza because I said I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

He

Tristan asked.

got this

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

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

to gag, causing me to

told them about

the thorn on

convinced that she

but Tristan

She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s dream.He might feel indebted to her in some

more logical and mature out of all

should

petty wasn't gonna get me

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

your game plan?"

go out there and be the supportive girlfriend that

lan, then she’s important

to spend Christmas taking care of her,

you, Emmie.That's a very mature

eyes sarcastically.She knew I was trying too hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I were eight years apart, I was secretly

wondered if he thought

and act mature, even though on the inside I was petty

about me.What are you guys’

to change the subject.The more I thought about

meet my parents," Sophie said and she

"That's a big step,"

dad are

I said

here. I got some work to do for the

eyes were glued

Christmas? Really?" I

to

need to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad,"

up at me and said, "Plus, I already

me, a real

eyes at him and

rather focus on school, actually make something of myself, you know what I mean?"he

can do both?"Sophie

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

you know what they say, more honey

could agree

say I never thought

wrong, I love being

sometimes I did think that being single has

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

on school and his future

"And hey, if you get bored, you can always

boyfriend? No, but thanks for the offer

course, what was I thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay here than

one that insisted to go with lan to the

was there every day, so if I wanted more time

it was

felt like I was third-wheeling on Ian and

was so doting on

would bring her lunch every day and feed her

I didn’t know about, and they would

days of that, I

I stayed in his apartment, watching Home Alone, being ironically

New Year's Eve and our suite reservation was for

thing ever, ringing in the New Year

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

should be shaving my legs or picking out a sexy

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

heard that

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