Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 100: Artistic Mystery 

EMMA’s POV : 

"Well, I wasn’t expecting to see you here.But, what a great surprise,"he chuckled lightly, pausing for a beat before saying, "How did you know I was here?"

"I don’t.I just happen to walk by,"I replied.

"Wow, fate must have a great sense of humor,"he smirked.

I hadn’t seen him in two years and I forgot how much his smile or his eyes had an effect on me.

Quickly, I averted my gaze.

I didn’t want him to know how much of an impact his presence had on me.

"What is all this anyway?"

I blurted, trying to sound as nonchalant as I could.

"It's an art exhibition, of course.My art exhibition,"

he said matter-of-factly.

"Yours? Wait, but how? I mean, what?" I was stammering like an idiot.

He stifled a laugh and said, "It seems like you have a lot of questions.You're lucky I'm on my break, I'll be glad to answer all of them,"

He took a step closer to me and I stepped back involuntarily.

My eyes darted around the room and I noticed that the exhibition visiting hours had ended.

The door was closed shut and it was just the two of us in that room.

Suddenly I felt a shiver up and down my spine.

"I don't understand,"I said to him.

"Why are you exhibiting your work here? You're not working in that gallery with Ally anymore?"

"No.As it turns out, we don't have the same vision for the gallery,"he shrugged as if it wasn’t a big deal.

That gallery meant the world to him, he poured out his time, heart, and soul into that gallery.

But here he was, making it look as if it was nothing.

"Why? I thought you two are..."

"Are what?"

"Together,"I said bitterly.

"No, we're not,"he shook his head.

"But, that night? You two were — "

"That night was a mistake,"he said firmly.

"I was ridiculously intoxicated and I was totally blacking out, I would've made out with a dude if he was in front of me,"he laughed.

"So, you weren't in love with her?"I had to repeat that again to make it clear.

"Fuck no,"he scoffed.

"We've been through this already.She was only a friend to me,"

He was shrugging and grinning, but I wasn’t amused.

That night was the night that scarred me for life.

I didn't understand, I thought he was being difficult with me because he wanted an out from our relationship to be with Ally.But if that wasn’t it...

"So, why did you break up with me then?"I asked.

"Because I thought you were cheating on me with someone else.But man, was I wrong about that too,"he rolled his eyes.

"Huh?"

"I saw you and your friend Tristan around your campus.I came because I wanted to apologize for the whole Paris program thing.But then I saw you two and you looked like you were kissing each other, so..."

' "Oh, that was..."

"Fake, I know," he cut me off, nodding his head and he said, "Your friend told me about it when I came looking for you,"

"So you knew I never cheated, why didn’t you try to get me back?"

"I was too late.You were already gone.And I've messed up so much already.I kissed another girl, drunk or not, that was an ass move.You clearly don't deserve that,"

It was starting to make sense now, all of it.

the quad when Tristan and I

that looked like lan, but

out, it was really him and

Paris thing, and Ally, and everything got

sorry.I was such a shit fiancée,"he said, and I knew

and warm.Warm enough to melt my

"That's alright,"I smiled.

should’ve been honest with you about the Paris thing since day one.I

smirked and grinned a lot, but this smile was different from all

genuine smile that I didn’t see on his face

was caught in a

I

I could do was lamely stare at

you to the city anyway?"he said after

job interview earlier...and then I

"A job interview?"

New

"Wow, that’s great,"

they'll contact me

means you're

How do you know?"I narrowed my eyes at

in, they'll just tell you they'll let you know, but they wouldn't

you within a week because they already knew their plans

made a

made me smile real

was really hoping I'd get

all the more certain for me."I suppose, congratulations are in order?"

"Thank you,"

bit my lip to stop myself from

on me and his gaze was penetrating so deep into my soul,

eyes away again, looking at

you? How have you been?"he said with his head cocked to the

weeks and I might have just got hired for a job

as casual as possible, if you

be doing too bad for yourself," lan opened his arms out wide and

a school featuring all your

all my works with my

word caught my

and looked up at his face, asking him,

you think inspired all

hands motioned to all the art pieces

over the paintings and the

was the inspiration behind all

it was very

wanna be in over my head, and I wanted to appear casual, so I just kept walking around the room, taking a

I

the big

were hundreds of glass bottles hanging from the ceiling and some of them

was titled

all the bottles it took for me to finally hear your

"What...?"I gaped.

was a rough

"It was?"

that to myself, but I had

it

a pang in

thought he'd moved

he was happy being with

didn’t know about

"What's this one?"

turned around quickly,

were starting to blur and I

boards you see in the airport.I went looking for you the day you left.I

instinctively, forgetting about the tears that were

"Yeah,"he said simply.

say anything? I

gone and I didn’t wanna ruin Paris for you.Or

find me sooner? I've waited

unconscious for days.I had severe dehydration, it was

motioned to the glass

were trickling down my face and I hated

stand in front of him and cry, so

one mean?" I pointed to another painting, desperate to change the

have a confession to make...I've been stalking you a little bit.Virtually,

"What?"

the pictures that people took of you, and one day I saw...some French guy posted a picture of a homemade meal and he tagged you

Anyway, I got jealous.

never made me

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