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 say

have to ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the wall

so loud last night and Tristan was

god...don’t tell

lived next to my sister my entire life.It's

sorry

said as my hand went to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think you'd

All night long.What was

myself on the face

at least you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way to the

you erase last night

it lunch and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever again, especially not in

grinned innocently and kept

need to remember I have roommates now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care

I made up, everything was right again in the

he always made sure

I was

to declare a major

Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the

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

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

the cooking club, and I got two words for you:

cooking various cuisines, but I was also able to bring home

Sophie loved

wasn’t my passion so I stopped attending the club after

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

Japanese and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie nights at the

out cheese and wine, so fancy! I

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

the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna commit

joining the sports team for me was

few times because Tristan insisted that I go

a journalist like him, but I did enjoy print media because

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

it at first, but I came to enjoy working for

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

classes, a little bit of social life, and a

would make time during the weekend to go see each

week, but we'd meet

at least

alternate on who goes

my turn to go

making time for each

quantity of the time, but

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

morning and I was getting ready to

city and grab

so the

sweater and my black leggings and I completed

apartment, when suddenly I heard

She was

voice was loud and year "You don’t know

Tristan clapped back.

kill anyone who takes advantage of you.You're too nice,

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

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

Sophie was standing in front of

tension in the air was thick and

your business, Soph!"

so your business

what’s going on here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

it?"

me to come in and

was standing next to her in front of Tristan, and

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