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

walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as

was being so loud last night and Tristan

god...don’t

sister my entire life.It's the same

sorry you had to

cover my mouth,

All night long.What was

myself on

gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made

I buy you lunch, will you erase last night from

lunch and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

word of this ever again, especially

innocently

can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a

Ian and I made up, everything was right again in the

still busy had a lot of work to do, but he always made sure to make some time for me despite

started however, I was starting to get busy

have to declare a

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

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

a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea

club, and I got two words

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

Sophie loved

wasn’t my passion so I stopped attending the club

a lot of insight

got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old

gave out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined a

high school, I was on the swim team and I

was good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and

the sports team for me

school newspaper a few times

a writer or a journalist like him, but I did enjoy print media

so he put

I came to enjoy working

be visually appealing, but also catchy and has

all these clubs plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours,

make time during the weekend to go see

every week, but we'd meet

at least once

would alternate on who goes

it was my turn to go

each other.We've learned a lot

about the quantity of the time, but about

each other, even if it was only for a day, we would drop everything and our focus would be on

and I was getting ready to

the 11 AM train to the city and grab

October, so the air outside was a

and my black leggings and I completed the look with

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

told you! She

voice was loud and year "You don’t know the

Tristan clapped back.

anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

bedroom door was open, so it wasn’t hard for me to take a peek

standing in front of him

the air was

of your business, Soph!"

my brother so your business

on here?" I said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

to me, "You can settle this for us once and

is it?" I

come in

front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head

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