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

eating cereal and watching TV, while Tristan was typing on

working 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.

looked up from his laptop

Is it that

tried to crack a joke, but I wasn't

I just talked to lan on the

and Tristan exchanged a

turned to me and asked, "Wait, let

to go to

a room at the Plaza because I said I

"Aw, that was sweet,"

Sophie pouted.

He has to

Tristan asked.

got

"That girl Ally?"

Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.

"Yup,"

her! I don’t even like

to gag, causing me to laugh

told them about

the thorn

time, I was convinced that she

the same idea, but Tristan brought

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 some

logical and

I should listen to

petty wasn't gonna

this ruin my Christmas," I said, full

game plan?"

there and be the supportive girlfriend

for lan, then she’s important

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

for you, Emmie.That's a very

sarcastically.She knew I was trying too hard.Okay, confession time: lan

I wondered if he thought I

I tended to overcompensate and act mature, even though on the

you

couch next to them, eager to change the subject.The more I

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

"That's a big step,"

are

you?" I said

some work to do for the

glued to

Christmas? Really?" I

happen to be enjoying

need to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so

Sophie commented.

not that

and said, "Plus, I already have

me, a

at

on school, actually make something of myself, you know

you can do both?"Sophie

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

they say, more honey more problems.I like

could agree

if I say I never thought about being

I love being in a

I did think that being single has

travel the world without having

school and his future career without any

"I said to Tristan, "And

No, but thanks for the offer though,"

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

a third-wheel.I was the one that

I wanted more time with him, I had to be there

it was

was third-wheeling on Ian

was so doting on

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

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

of that, I gave

to the hospital by himself and I stayed in his

Year's Eve and our suite

was supposed to be the most romantic thing ever, ringing in the New Year

past three days, the

picking out a sexy outfit

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

heard that

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