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 TV, while Tristan was typing on

on the school

"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"

Sophie beamed cheerfully.

"Ugh, hmm,"

incoherently and staggered towards

"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"

Sophie said to Tristan.

up from his laptop screen and watched

Is it that time of the month

a joke, but I

to lan on the phone,"

and Tristan

"Wait, let

supposed to go

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

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

what happened? He has

Tristan asked.

he’s got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

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

causing me to laugh a

told them about

was always the thorn on my

convinced that she

the same idea, but Tristan brought up an interesting

friend for her? 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

decided I should

being petty wasn't gonna get me

enough.I’m not gonna let this ruin my Christmas," I said,

game plan?" Sophie

just gonna go out there and be the supportive girlfriend

for lan, then she’s important to me

care of her, I'll be

you, Emmie.That's a

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

he thought I was a

tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though

are you guys’ plans

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 said and she did

"That's a big step,"

are dying to meet

I said

some work to

were glued to that

Christmas? Really?" I

to be

to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life

Sophie commented.

life’s not that bad," He shushed

looked up at me and said, "Plus,

me, a real

eyes at

drama.I'd 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.

say, more honey more problems.I

agree with

lying if I say

me wrong, I love being

sometimes I did think that

having to

here could focus on school and

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

time with your boyfriend? No,

Tristan would definitely rather stay here than be a third-wheel with me

the one that insisted

there every day, so if I wanted more time with

it was

like I was third-wheeling on Ian

was so doting on

bring her lunch every day and feed her when

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

days of

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

Eve and our suite reservation was

thing ever, ringing in the New Year

three days, the romance bone in

out a sexy outfit for tomorrow, but I

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

heard that right.A

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