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

don’t have to ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as

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

god...don’t tell

next to my sister my entire

am so sorry

to cover

long.What was it, like,

my god!"I slapped myself on the

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

you lunch, will you erase last night

it lunch and dinner and you got yourself a deal,"he was totally milking

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again, especially not in

innocently and

can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around

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

to do, but he always

started however, I was starting

I would have to declare a major by the

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

on campus and Tristan was working

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

club, and

that I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but

Sophie

I stopped attending

and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures of the

and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also

cheese and wine, so fancy! I

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

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

joining the sports team for me was mostly for

visited the school newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go check

a journalist like him, but I did

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

wanna admit it at first, but I came

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

little bit of social

Ian and I would make time during

every week, but we'd meet once every two

at least

alternate on who

turn to go visit him in the

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

about the quantity of the time, but about

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

Saturday morning and I was

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

October, so the air outside

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

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

told you! She was

voice was loud and year "You don’t know the whole story.Just

Tristan clapped back.

and I'll kill anyone who takes

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

wasn’t hard

standing in front of him with her hands

tension in the air was thick

your

brother so your business is

I said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

can settle this

is it?"

come

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

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