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 say

pretty damn thin,"he said as

loud last night and Tristan was sleeping

god...don’t

used to it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the

so sorry you had to endure

went to cover my mouth,

was

god!"I slapped myself on the face

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

lunch, will you erase last

got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever again, especially

captain,"he 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

I made up, everything was right again in the

but he always made sure to make some time for me despite

was starting to get

would have to declare a major by the end of this

and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the student clubs

active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was

give Aa SA im het me an idea of

and I got two words for you:

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

and Sophie loved

so I stopped

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

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

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also

school, I was on the swim team and I

enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna commit to it

the sports team for me was mostly for exercising and

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

journalist like him, but I

so he put me in charge of the advertisement section

I came to enjoy

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

afternoon classes, a little bit of social life,

make time during

meet every week, but

at least once a

alternate on

my turn to go

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

the quantity of the time, but

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

Saturday morning and I was getting ready

city and grab

so the air outside was

white sweater and my black leggings and I

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

you! She was just using

loud and year "You don’t

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

it wasn’t hard for

on his bed while Sophie was standing in front of him with her hands on

the air was thick and

none of your business, Soph!"

my brother so your business

said cautiously with my head peeking

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

can settle

is it?"

come

in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head back in

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