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.

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

someone that looked like lan, but I thought it was a

and he thought I was

Ally, and everything got all blown

but I'm sorry.I was such

gaze was gentle and warm.Warm enough to

"That's alright,"I smiled.

a super great fiancée either.I should’ve been honest with you about the Paris thing since day one.I didn’t know why I was so afraid,"

smirked and grinned a lot, but this

hearty, genuine smile that I didn’t see on

was caught

move and I didn’t say anything

could do was lamely stare

after a while of silence, breaking the

a job interview earlier...and then I was

"A job interview?"

New Yorker

"Wow, that’s great,"

contact

means you're in,"he

How do you know?"I narrowed my eyes at

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

you within a week because they already knew their

a lot

also made me smile

was really hoping I'd get

certain for me."I suppose, congratulations are in order?" he

"Thank you,"

to bit my lip to

penetrating so deep into my soul, I was feeling self-

my eyes away again, looking

how are you? How have you been?"he said with his head cocked

and I might have just got hired for a job in the New Yorker," I said as I walked around the room, examining all the other art

casual as possible, if you didn't know that

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

at a school featuring all your

my works with my

caught my

stopped moving and looked up at his face, asking him, "What are you talking

you think inspired

the art

the paintings and the installations, everything that he had

was the inspiration behind

was

in over my head, and I wanted to appear casual, so I just kept walking around the room, taking a closer look at each and every one of

one? I don’t

to the big installation in the

bottles hanging from the ceiling and some of them were

piece was titled

me to finally hear your name out

"What...?"I gaped.

was a rough

"It was?"

say that to myself, but

like it

a

this time, I thought he'd moved on so

was happy being

about all

"What's this one?"

quickly, pointing at another

eyes were starting to blur and I didn’t

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

him instinctively, forgetting about the tears that were pooling in

"Yeah,"he said simply.

didn't you say anything? I thought

didn’t wanna ruin Paris for you.Or to force you to turn around and come

sooner? I've waited for days..."I choked, holding back the tears

in the hospital.I was unconscious for days.I had

motioned to the glass bottles

my face and I

of him and cry, so wiped them away quickly

I pointed to another painting, desperate to change the

stifled a laugh, "I have a confession to make...I've been stalking you a little bit.Virtually, not

"What?"

and one day I saw...some French guy posted a picture of a homemade meal and he tagged you and he

Anyway, I got jealous.

never made

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