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

damn thin,"he said as he

loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in the room

god...don’t

to my sister my entire life.It's

am so sorry you

to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think you'd

long.What was it, like,

god!"I slapped myself on the face out of sheer

apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he

lunch, will you erase last night from

got yourself a deal,"he was totally milking

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever again, especially not in front

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some type of dignity

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

still busy had a lot of work to do, but he always made sure to make some time

I was starting to get busy

have to declare a major by the end of this

help me pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of

of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was working in the school

im het me an

first started with the cooking club, and I got two words for

cuisines, but I was

Sophie

my passion so I

some cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity and

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

and wine, so fancy!

in high school, I

enough for the varsity teams at

team for me was mostly for exercising

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

wasn't much of a writer or a journalist like him, but I did enjoy print

arts, so he put me in charge of the advertisement

but I came to enjoy working for

ad should not only be visually appealing,

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

make time during the weekend to

meet every week, but we'd

at least once

would alternate on who

my turn to go visit him in

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

of the time, but

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

Saturday morning and I was getting ready

city and grab lunch with Ian by the Grand Central

so the air outside was

and my black leggings and I completed the look

just about to leave the apartment,

told you! She was just

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

Tristan clapped back.

and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

was open, so it wasn’t hard for me

his bed while Sophie was standing in front of

in the air was

none of your business, Soph!"

brother so your business

on here?" I said cautiously with my

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

to me, "You can settle this for

is it?" I

come in

in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head

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