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

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

being so loud last

my god...don’t

to it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the same thing,"he laughed and

sorry

went to cover my mouth, "I didn’t

night long.What was

on the face out

still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way to the

I buy you lunch, will you erase last night

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

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again,

captain,"he grinned innocently

bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some

Ian and I made up, everything

of work to do, but he always made sure to make some time for me

I was starting to get

declare a major by the end of this academic

major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me

an active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was

Aa SA im het me an idea of

and I got two words for

to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also able

Sophie loved

wasn’t my passion so I stopped attending

and it gave me a lot of insight

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

and wine, so fancy! I also

was pretty active back in high school, I was on

teams at UPenn, and I

joining the sports team for me

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

him, but I did

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

first, but I came to enjoy

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

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

during

but we'd meet once every

at least once a

alternate on who goes

was my turn to

each other.We've learned a lot from

quantity of the time, but about the

if it was only for a day, we would drop everything

morning and I was getting ready to

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

was late October, so the air outside was a

sweater and my black leggings and I

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

you! She

"You don’t know the whole story.Just

Tristan clapped back.

I'll kill anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

open, so it wasn’t hard for me to take a

standing

tension in the air was thick and

none of your business,

so your business is my

here?" I said cautiously with my head peeking

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

turned to me, "You can settle

is it?" I

come

Tristan, and he just rolled his head back

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