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

to ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as

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

god...don’t tell

next to my sister my entire life.It's

I am so sorry you had to

cover my

was

on the face

Tristan

I buy you lunch, will you erase last

got yourself a deal,"he was totally

"Fine!" I breathed.

word of this ever again, especially not in front of

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

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

I made up,

to do, but he always made sure

was starting to

declare a major by the end of

me pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed

the Korean Society on campus and

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

and I got two words

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

Sophie

so I stopped attending the club after

gave me a lot of insight on diversity

Japanese and got into K- Pop for a

so fancy! I also joined

I was on

was good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I

joining the sports team for me

newspaper a few times

much of a writer or a journalist like him, but I did enjoy

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

admit it at first, but I came to enjoy working for the

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

a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours, my

would make time during the weekend to

week, but we'd meet once every

least

would alternate on who goes

was my turn to go visit him in

each other.We've learned a lot from our previous

the quantity of the

only for a day, we would drop

was Saturday morning and I was getting

on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian by the

October, so the

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

leave the apartment, when suddenly I

She was just

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

Tristan clapped back.

kill anyone who

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

wasn’t hard for me to take

Sophie was standing in front of him

air

none of your business, Soph!" Tristan

my brother so your business

going on here?" I said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

me, "You can settle this for us

is it?"

me to come in

front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head back

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