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

pretty damn thin,"he said as he

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

god...don’t

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

I am so sorry you had to endure

said as my hand went to cover my mouth,

night long.What was it, like, five sessions?"he

god!"I slapped myself on the face out

at least you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed

I buy you lunch, will you erase last night from your

got

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again, especially not in

captain,"he grinned innocently

have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the

I made

a lot of work to do, but he always made sure to make

I was starting to

sophomore, I would have to declare a major by the end of this academic

major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some

of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was

wasn't a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I

and

cuisines, but I was also able to bring home

and Sophie loved

wasn’t my passion so I

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

K- Pop for a bit.I

and wine, so fancy! I also joined a sports

school, I was on the

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

team for me was mostly for

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

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

for visual arts, so he put me in charge of the advertisement

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

good ad should not only be visually appealing, but also

my afternoon classes, a little bit of social

make time during the weekend to go see

meet every week, but we'd meet once

least once

alternate on who goes

to go visit him in the

for each

the quantity of the time, but

for a day, we would drop everything and our

morning and I was getting ready

taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab

was late October, so the

my black leggings and I completed the look with

the apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling

you! She

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

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard for me to take

was standing

air was thick and

of your business, Soph!" Tristan

your business

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

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

can

is it?" I

come in and I followed

standing next to her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head

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