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

pretty damn

was being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in

god...don’t

my sister my entire life.It's the same thing,"he laughed

so sorry you had to endure

hand went to cover my mouth, "I

night long.What was it,

god!"I slapped myself on

Tristan laughed again as he made

you

got yourself a deal,"he was totally milking

"Fine!" I breathed.

not a word of this ever again, especially not in

innocently and

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

Ian and I made

do, but he always made sure to make some time for me despite his busy

however, I was

would have to declare a major by

Tristan pushed me to attend some of the

Society on campus and Tristan was working in the school

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

first started with the cooking club, and I got two

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

Sophie loved

so I

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

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

cheese and wine, so

I was on the swim team and I

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

sports team for me

few times because Tristan insisted that I go check

like him, but I did enjoy print media because

eye for visual arts, so he put me

wanna admit it at first, but I came to

only be visually

clubs plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and

I would make time during the weekend to go see each

every week, but we'd meet once every two

least once a

on who

to go visit

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

quantity of the time, but about the

other, even if it was only for a day, we would drop everything and our focus would be on being

I

AM train to the city and grab lunch

October, so the air outside was a little

sweater and my black leggings and I

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling from

She was just

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

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

door was open, so it wasn’t hard for

was standing in front of him with her hands on

air was

of your

your business is

on here?" I said cautiously with

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

is it?" I

to come in and I

next to her in front of Tristan, and he

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