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

everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked

being so loud last

god...don’t tell

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

sorry you had

to cover my

night long.What was it, like,

god!"I slapped myself on

just gloat," Tristan

you lunch, will you erase last night

and you got yourself a deal,"he

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again,

innocently and

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 maintain some

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

of work to do, but he always made sure to make

school started however, I was starting to get busy

to declare a

my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend

of the Korean Society on campus

idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would like to major

first started with the cooking club, and I got two

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

Sophie loved

wasn’t my passion so I

a lot of insight on diversity and

bit of Japanese and got into K- Pop for a

cheese and wine, so

pretty active back in high school, I

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

sports team for me was mostly

school newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go

a journalist like him, but I

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

didn't wanna admit it at first, but I came to enjoy working

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

of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours, my schedule was

would make time during the weekend to go

but we'd meet once every two

at least

on who

was my turn to go visit him

were great at making time for each other.We've

the quantity of the time, but

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

I was

the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian

October, so the air outside was a little

and my black leggings

leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

told you! She was just

loud and year "You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

I'll kill anyone who takes advantage

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

was open, so it wasn’t

while Sophie was standing

the air was thick and

your

your business is

what’s going on here?" I said cautiously with

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

is it?" I

for me to come

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

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