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.

on the quad when Tristan and I were pretending to date in front of

that looked like lan, but

was really him and he thought I was cheating on

that to the whole Paris thing, and Ally, and everything got

it’s way overdue, but I'm sorry.I was such a shit fiancée,"he

gaze was gentle and warm.Warm enough to melt my hardened

"That's alright,"I smiled.

you about the Paris thing since day one.I didn’t know why I was so afraid," lan smiled,

but this smile was different from

that I didn’t

caught in

I didn’t say

I could do was

brings you to the city anyway?"he said after a while of silence, breaking the thick

had a job interview earlier...and then I

"A job interview?"

New

"Wow, that’s great,"

said they'll contact me

you're in,"he said

do you know?"I narrowed

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

said they'll contact you within a week because they already knew their plans

a lot of

also made me smile real

was really hoping

me."I suppose, congratulations are in order?" he said when

"Thank you,"

my lip to stop myself

were fixed on me and his gaze was penetrating so deep into my

my eyes away again, looking at anything other than

How have you been?"he said with

bad.I’m graduating in a couple of weeks and I might have just got hired for a job in the

trying to be as casual as possible, if you

you? You don’t seem to be doing too bad for yourself," lan opened his

at a school featuring all your

my works with

word caught my

looked up at his face, asking him, "What

a look around.Who do you

all the art pieces all

and the installations, everything that

saying that I was the inspiration behind all

was

to appear casual, so I just kept walking

I

big installation in the

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

piece was titled ‘277

took for me to finally hear your name out loud without breaking into

"What...?"I gaped.

was a rough year

"It was?"

to myself, but I had said it

like it was no

a pang in my

time, I thought he'd moved on

was

didn’t know about all of

"What's this one?"

turned around quickly, pointing at another

were starting to blur and

inspired by one of those boards you see in the airport.I went looking for you the day you left.I was too late

instinctively, forgetting

"Yeah,"he said simply.

anything? I thought you

Paris for you.Or to force you to turn around and

waited

unconscious for days.I had severe dehydration,

to the

my face and I hated myself

didn’t wanna stand in front of him and

mean?" I pointed to another painting,

stifled a laugh, "I have a confession to make...I've been stalking you a little

"What?"

saw the pictures you took or 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

Anyway, I got jealous.

made

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