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

damn thin,"he said as he knocked

eyes shot up instantly.I was being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in the room next

god...don’t

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

sorry you had to endure

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

was it, like,

slapped myself on the face out of sheer

just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made

lunch, will you erase last night from your

lunch and dinner and you got yourself a

"Fine!" I breathed.

ever

captain,"he grinned innocently and

bunny sex with Ian

and Ian and I made up, everything was right again

of work to do, but he always made

I was starting

have to declare a major by the end of

major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me

Society on campus

Aa SA im het me an

club, and I got two words for you: free

but I was

Sophie loved

passion so I stopped

I joined some cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity and the different

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

wine, so fancy! I also joined a sports

high school, I was on the swim team and I

varsity teams at UPenn,

the sports team for me

I visited the school newspaper a few times

like him, but I did

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

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

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

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

would make time during

week, but we'd meet

at least once

would alternate on who goes

week it was my turn to go

each other.We've learned a lot from

wasn’t about the quantity of the time, but about the

other, even if it was only for a day, we would

Saturday morning and I was getting

city and grab lunch with Ian by the Grand

October, so the air outside was a

on this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I

the apartment, when suddenly

told you! She

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

Tristan clapped back.

and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of you.You're

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

was open, so it wasn’t hard for me to

bed while Sophie was standing in front

tension in the air was thick

of your

brother so your

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

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

said as she turned to me, "You can settle

it?"

for me to come in and I

of Tristan, and he just rolled

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