Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 54: Beyond Repair 

EMMA’s POV :

--- TWO WEEKS LATER - - -

"No! She did not do that!"

I shook my head at Tiff and Carrie as I couldn't believe what they were telling me.

"Oh yeah, she did,"they nodded aggressively back.

"No way.My mother did not do that.She’s the most non- confrontational person ever.She can't possibly do that.No! There’s no way!"my voice got increasingly higher and higher and my friends shook their heads in disagreement.

"But she did,"Carrie stated.

"Yup.She marched right in here, grabbed Tyler by his collar, and cursed at him like there was no tomorrow,"Tiff added.

It was my first day back at school after taking two weeks off after the accident.

Thankfully, I managed to keep up with classes with the help of Tiff and Carrie who brought their notes and my homework to me every day.

The hospital discharged me a couple of days after lan’s little visit.

They said I was fine, but they told me I had to stay in bed rest. So for the past week, I stayed at home, watched a lot of Netflix, and did my homework.

My teachers were kind enough to let me take my exams later so I wouldn't miss my grades.

Meanwhile, mom never told me that she had gone to school a couple of weeks ago.

After we had a little heart to heart, she went out of the hospital for a few hours, but I assumed she went home or something.

Turns out, she went to school and gave Tyler a little talk. "I can’t believe I'm just hearing about this now.Why am I only hearing about this now?"

I glared at my two best friends as we made our way down the hall.

"We weren't gonna tell you at all, honestly,"Tiff answered.

"You're so stressed out with everything that’s happened, we don't wanna add to that,"Carrie followed.

I guess I might have never found out about it too, except for the fact that people kept whispering and staring at me as I walked into school this morning.

I heard their murmurs and whispers and I picked up on the fact that my mom was here, screaming her head off at some poor kid.

When I asked Tiff and Carrie about it, finally they spoke up.

They didn’t see it firsthand, but they heard from a friend of a friend of Mark’s, who was in the hallway at that time.

Apparently, my mom came to school searching for Tyler, pulled Tyler out of his last period class, and yelled at him for breaking my heart.My mom's my hero, but also...no.

"That is so embarrassing, oh my god.I can't believe she did that,"I groaned as I opened my locker and put my books away,

"And poor Tyler.He must so hella confused,"

"Oh yeah.He came looking for us the next day and asked us if we knew anything about that,"Carrie replied.

"And? What did you guys tell him?"

"We told him it was a misunderstanding.Your mom thought that he was the guy you were dating,"

"And? What did he say?"

"He just said okay and he left,"Tiff shrugged.

"He doesn't look mad or weirded out by the whole thing?"I asked again, because if the situation were reversed, I would be. Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

"No, he seems to be very understanding,"Carrie replied.

"I thought he was a skeeze for kissing you at the dance, but now I think he’s kinda alright,"Tiff added.

Poor guy.He got yelled at by my mom in front of the kids at school for no apparent reason.I felt bad for him.He was taking the punches that lan should have been taking.

But I also couldn't deny the fact that I was thankful mom thought it was Tyler and not somebody else.

"I better go talk to him,"

I said, closing my lockers shut, and I scanned the halls for signs of Tyler.

I didn't see Tyler around during the first few periods, so I decided to wait until fifth.I knew he has a free period and if he wasn't cutting school to go to chick-fill-A, I knew he’d be at the library.I was making my way down the halls without anything in particular in mind, when suddenly I spotted lan walking on the other side of the hall.

He had some papers on hand and he was reading through them as he walked.I gulped instinctively and thought about turning away to avoid him.But before I could do anything else, lan looked up from his papers and he caught my eyes.

Guess it’s too late to try and avoid him.

He looked taken aback to see me, but he didn’t stop his tracks.He pulled his composure and kept walking.

"Hi," I said when he was an arm’s length away.

"You're back?"he asked lowly.

My heart suddenly picked up its pace and I got all nervous because he was standing so close tome.

"Yeah,"I breathed.

"You feeling better?"

"Yeah,"

"Good,"

He looked stoic, almost expressionless.

Then, he let out a small smile before looking away and he kept on walking.

He past right by me without saying another word.

I wanted to say something else, but there was nothing I could say.

I turned my head around and watched his back as he kept walking.

He never turned back, not even once.

Is this what life’s gonna be like from now on? I'd have to see him in the hallways and he'll be ignoring me? After a year of an epic whirlwind romance, now we were reduced to nothing but polite strangers.

And the worst part was that he made it look so easy to go on about his life without me.

I couldn't spend an hour without thinking about him, what he was doing, or what he was thinking.

But by the looks of it, it didn’t even seem like my existence mattered that much to him How did he change so much and so fast? - It had only been a couple of weeks.

I still spent my days and nights crying over him, wondering what I could have said or done to get him to change his mind.

But that’s the thing about lan, once he’s decided on something, he’s decided.

No turning back.

With heavy steps, I made my way towards the library.

I didn’t remember what I was doing here and why I was heading to the library in the first place.

My eyes scanned the room aimlessly and it landed on this tall blonde guy wearing a hoodie, and he was munching on a bag of gummy worms.

My lips twitched into a smile as I remembered what I was here for.

My steps were increasingly lighter as I reached the desk.

"Tyler, hey,"I said and grabbed the empty seat in front of him.

He looked shocked to see me.

He pulled his ear pods out quickly and said, "Emma? You're back at school?"

"Yeah," I beamed.

"That's great,"he smiled back,

"How are you feeling?"

"Much better, thanks,"

"I wanted to come and visit you at the hospital, but then your mom came here and she made it pretty clear that she hates my guts.So I thought it'd be best if I don’t come..."he said cautiously.

"Yeah about that.I've been looking everywhere for you.I owe you an explanation for that,"I said with a sorry smile.

"Yes, that would be great,"he nodded.

"So, listen, first of all, I'm so sorry about my mom.She thought you and I were dating.I didn’t know where she got that idea from, but that’s what she thought.She never asked me about it so I never confirm or deny it.Instead, she came and yelled at you, and it wasn’t cool.I just found out about this today and I’m gonna tell her off later at dinner,"

"No, you don’t have to tell her anything.Don't worry about it,"he waved his hand carelessly and shrugged.

"What, you're not mad?"I narrowed my eyes at him, but he just smiled like it was nothing.

"No.Your mom's just trying to protect you.It’s okay,"

"Wow,"I breathed, pausing for a moment before saying

"You're like the nicest person I've ever met,"

"Plus, if you tell your mom you and I weren't dating, she’s gonna pester you for information on who the actual guy is.And I assume you don’t wanna tell her?"

"Right,"I said quickly,

"And it's who the actual guy was.He and I are no longer in the present tense,"

"Sorry to hear that,"he said, but he didn’t look that sorry though.

Still, Tyler was right.

If I told my mom that it wasn’t Tyler, she would ask me who the guy was and I didn't think I could keep up with lying to her much longer.

"Well, hey, anyway, it's okay.She can still think it's me.I don't mind,"

Tyler said again as if he could read my mind.

"Are you sure?"I asked.

"Yeah, no sweat, I got your back,"I let out a huge sigh of relief I didn’t know I was holding.

This was probably the best thing that had happened to me all day.

Tyler was a real good friend and I was lucky to have met you.

"Tyler, you're such a great friend.I don’t know what I did to deserve you.I owe you one, big time,"

"Well, if you wanna make it up to me.I know just the way,"he said and a smile curved up his lips.

"What is it?"

His smile grew wider and wider as he leaned closer to me and whispered, "Chick-fill-A’s chicken burger and nuggets?"

I had to bit my lip to stop myself from laughing out loud.

He was referring to the time we cut school and got Chick- fill-A for lunch.

I remembered I had such a great time ditching fifth period with him.

If it weren't for my jealous boyfriend slash teacher at the time, I would have kept doing it.

But after lan got angry about it, I stopped ditching lunch for Chick-fill-A with Tyler altogether.

But nothing was gonna stop us now.

I gave him a firm nod and a smile as I said, "And fries.You got it,"

In no time at all, Tyler gathered his things and we raced out of the library in a flash.

We were smiling and giggling like little kids as we sneaked through the back door, the one that teachers never cared to look.

But as I was about to head out the door, I noticed that the area was visible from the art studio’s window.

lan was standing there, by the window, and like those magical moments in the movies — we locked eyes with each other.

He had a stern look on his face as he noticed what I was about to do.

"Emma? You coming?"Tyler asked, he was already out the door.

"Of course,"I said simply.

Turning my gaze away from lan, I left the door and never looked back.