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 were pretending to date in front of

like lan, but I thought it was a

him and

the whole Paris thing, and Ally, and everything got all blown up

was such a shit

and warm.Warm enough to melt my

"That's alright,"I smiled.

you about the Paris thing since day one.I didn’t know why I

lot, but this smile was different from

genuine smile that I didn’t see on

caught in

couldn't move and I didn’t say anything else

could do was

the city anyway?"he said after a while of silence, breaking the thick air

interview earlier...and then I was just talking a

"A job interview?"

New Yorker

"Wow, that’s great,"

said they'll contact

you're

How do you know?"I narrowed my eyes at

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

you within a week because they

made a lot

also made me smile real

hoping I'd get

more certain for me."I suppose, congratulations are in order?" he said when he caught

"Thank you,"

to bit my lip to stop myself

fixed on me and his gaze was penetrating so deep into

turned my eyes away again,

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

job in the New Yorker," I said as I walked around the

as casual as possible, if you didn't know that

You don’t seem to be doing too bad for yourself," lan opened his arms out wide and said, "I’m elated.This is probably the highlight of

at a school featuring

art exhibition featuring all my works with

caught

looked up at his face, asking him, "What are

do you think inspired all of

all the art pieces all

paintings and the installations, everything

was the

it was

to appear casual, so I just kept walking around the room, taking a closer look at each and

this one? I

pointed to the big

the ceiling and some of

piece was

the bottles it took for me to finally hear your name out loud without

"What...?"I gaped.

rough year for

"It was?"

to say that to myself, but

just shrugged like it was no

I felt a pang

thought he'd moved on so

thought he was happy being

know about

"What's this one?"

around quickly,

starting to blur and I didn’t want

the airport.I went looking

airport?" I looked up at him instinctively, forgetting about the tears

"Yeah,"he said simply.

I thought you just gave

wanna ruin Paris for you.Or to force you to turn around

waited for

was in the hospital.I was unconscious for days.I had severe dehydration,

motioned to the

face and I

wanna stand in front of him and cry, so wiped them away

one mean?" I pointed to another painting,

have a

"What?"

French guy posted a picture of a homemade meal and he tagged you and he said something along the line of ‘my girlfriend

Anyway, I got jealous.

made

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