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

pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the

shot up instantly.I was being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in

god...don’t tell

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

so sorry you had

to cover my mouth, "I

All night long.What was it, like, five sessions?"he

myself on

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

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

you got yourself a

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever again, especially not

innocently

have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I

fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was

of work to do, but he always made sure to

I was starting to

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

Tristan pushed me to attend some

Korean Society on campus and Tristan was working

all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea

and I got two words for

that I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but

and Sophie loved

I stopped

lot of insight on

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

and wine, so fancy! I also

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

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

joining the sports team for me was mostly for exercising and

newspaper a few times because Tristan

journalist like him, but I did enjoy print

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

first, but I came to enjoy working for the advertising

learned that a good ad should not only be visually appealing, but also catchy and

little bit of social life, and a decent

Ian and I would make time during the weekend

week, but we'd meet once

at least once a

would alternate on who goes

was my turn to

time for each other.We've learned a lot

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

other, even if it was only for a day, we would

and I was getting ready to

to the city and grab

October, so the air outside was a

cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed the look with my

leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

She was

loud and year "You don’t know

Tristan clapped back.

brother and I'll kill anyone who

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard

his bed while Sophie was standing in

the air was thick

of your business, Soph!" Tristan

your business

here?" I said cautiously with my

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

is it?"

to come in and I followed

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

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