Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

Chapter 79: Friendly Fire 

EMMA’s POV : 

"What's that?"

Tristan asked as he saw me putting up a painting on my bedroom wall.

"A birthday slash housewarming gift from Ian,"I replied.

Ian spent the night last night, but he had to return to the city early this morning.

I was sore and tired from our late night sessions, I ended up sleeping until late.

That afternoon, I woke up to a USPS delivery guy ringing my doorbell and giving me this big framed thing wrapped in brown paper.

On the wrapping was also a card and it said: Dearest Emma, Since I can’t bring you to the gallery just yet, I’m bringing a small piece of the gallery to you.

Happy sweet nineteen, my love.

So grateful you came into the world because you make my world better every day.

All my heart and soul, Ian.

Ian sent me a painting of his original work, titled Paint The Town Red.

On the painting were a skyline of New York City and a silhouette of a girl standing in the middle of it all.

Everything was in black and white except for the girl and the umbrella she was carrying and it was bright red.

After hanging the painting on my bedroom wall, I stood in front of it for a couple of minutes just staring at it and wondering what it meant.

"I'm assuming this painting’s about you?"

Tristan stood next to me and tilted his head to the side, studying the painting.

"I guess so?"

"What do you think it means?"

"I'm not too sure.I've been staring at it for the past fifteen minutes.The title is Paint The Town Red, but the town is in black and white..."

I had texted Ian thank you for the gift and he asked me if I liked it or not.

I told him of course I loved it, and then he asked me if I knew what the painting meant.

I wanted to say yes, but I had been staring at it for a while now and I had no clue.

"I think I know what it means,"

Tristan said suddenly.

"What?"I turned to him quickly.

"The only thing that’s red is the girl with the umbrella.That’s the town, not the actual building,"

 "What?"

"The town...the place...or maybe his home is her, not the city itself,"

"Wow..."

I paused for a moment as the realization hit me.

What Tristan said was true.

I was calling me his world, this is what the painting meant.

"Damn, Tristan, that’s some observation skills you got there,"I went to grab my phone and texted Ian right away.

I wrote to him: "Am I red? Am I your world?"

Seconds later, he texted back: "Bingo.I knew you'd get it, you're such a smarty-pants,"I was smiling to myself as I read his text.

Even though I wasn’t the one who figured it out, I shamelessly took the compliment.

"So, your boyfriend painted this? He’s a great artist,"Tristan said again, he was still admiring the painting.

"Yeah, he is,"I nodded.

"I'm assuming last night went pretty well?"Tristan said with a sly smirk.

you can say

ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as

last night and Tristan was

my god...don’t tell

lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the

so sorry you

to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think

All night long.What was it, like,

god!"I slapped myself on the face

least you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made

will you

dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

bunny sex with Ian around

my birthday fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was right again

do, but he always

I was starting to get busy

I would have to declare a major by the end of this academic

Tristan pushed me to

was an active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was working in

clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would

cooking club, and I got

I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also

Sophie loved

passion so I stopped attending the club

clubs and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity

little bit of Japanese and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie

out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also

active back in high school, I was on the swim team

think I was good enough for the varsity teams

team for me

school newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go check

him, but I did enjoy print media because I

a good eye for visual arts, so he put

first, but I came to enjoy working for the advertising

not only be visually appealing, but also catchy

afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping

during the weekend to go see each

couldn't meet every week, but we'd meet once

at least

would alternate on who goes

to go

at making time for each other.We've learned a lot from our previous

quantity of the

each other, even if it was only for a day,

I was

planned on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with

the air

my black leggings and I

was just about to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling from

She was just using

loud and year "You don’t

Tristan clapped back.

I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of you.You're too

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard for

while Sophie was standing in front of him with her

in the air was thick and

of your

your business

what’s going on here?" I said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

she turned to me, "You can settle this for us once

it?"

motioned for me to come in and I

Tristan,

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