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.

can say

damn thin,"he said as

was being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in the room

god...don’t

it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the same thing,"he laughed and

am so sorry

my hand went to cover my mouth, "I didn’t

night long.What was it, like,

slapped myself on the face out

would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his

I buy you lunch, will you erase last night from your

lunch and dinner and you got yourself a deal,"he was totally

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever again, especially not in

captain,"he grinned innocently

Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain

and I made up,

to do, but he always made sure to make some time for me despite his busy

school started however, I was starting to get busy

to declare a major by the end of this academic

my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the student

Society on campus and Tristan was

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

club, and I got two words for you:

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

and Sophie loved

passion so I stopped attending the club after a

cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures of

learned a little bit of Japanese and got into K- Pop for

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined

school, I was on the

I was good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna

joining the sports team for me was mostly for exercising and good

newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that

wasn't much of a writer or a journalist like him, but

a good eye for visual arts, so he put me in charge of the advertisement section

I came to enjoy working for the advertising

be visually appealing, but

all these clubs plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social

Ian and I would make time during the weekend to go

but we'd meet once

least once a

on

turn to

each

wasn’t about the quantity of the time, but about

was only for a day,

I

taking the 11 AM train to the city

October, so the air outside was a

my black leggings and I

was just about to leave the apartment, when suddenly

She was just

voice was loud and year "You

Tristan clapped back.

You're my brother and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard

on his bed while Sophie was standing in front

in the air was

none of your business, Soph!" Tristan

your

here?" I said cautiously with my head peeking

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

it?" I

motioned for me to come in and I

next to her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head back

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