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

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

was being so loud last night and

god...don’t tell

lived next to my sister my

so sorry you had to endure

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

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

god!"I slapped myself on the face out of sheer

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

you lunch, will you erase last night from your

got yourself a

"Fine!" I breathed.

not a word of this ever again, especially not in

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

sheez.I need to remember I have roommates now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to

made up, everything was right

he always made sure to make some time

was starting

declare a major by the end of this academic

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

active member of the Korean Society on

Aa SA im

cooking club, and I

to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also able to bring home free

Sophie

passion so I stopped attending the club after a

me a lot

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

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined a sports

school, I was on the swim team

the varsity teams

me was mostly for exercising

newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted

him,

arts, so he put me in

but I came

not only be visually appealing, but also catchy and

social life, and a decent amount

and I would make time during the weekend to go

couldn't meet every week, but we'd

least

would alternate on who

my turn to go visit

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

quantity of

it was only for a day, we would drop everything and our focus would be

morning and I was getting ready to

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

so the air

sweater and my black leggings and I

about to leave the apartment, when

you! She was just

"You don’t know the whole story.Just

Tristan clapped back.

kill anyone who takes

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

was open, so it wasn’t hard for

while Sophie was standing in front of him with her hands on her

the air

none of your

brother so your business

on here?" I said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

it?" I

motioned for me to come in and I

next to her in front of Tristan, and

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