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

damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the wall a few

shot up instantly.I was being so loud last

my god...don’t

used to it.I lived next to my sister my entire

I am so sorry you had

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

was it, like, five sessions?"he

myself on

would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way

will you

it lunch and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever

innocently and

have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need

my birthday fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was right again in the

do, but he always

started however, I was

I would have to declare a major

and Tristan pushed

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

would give Aa SA im het me an idea

the cooking club, and I got two words for you: free

but I was also able to bring home free

Sophie loved

so I

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

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

out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined

I was on the swim team and I

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

for me was mostly for

school newspaper a few times

like him, but I did enjoy print media

visual arts, so he put me in charge of the

but I came

be visually appealing,

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

time during the weekend to go

meet every week, but

at least once

alternate on who

to

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

the quantity of

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

Saturday morning and I was getting ready to

on taking the 11 AM train to the city

October, so the

cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed

the apartment, when suddenly I heard

you! She was just

year "You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

You're my brother and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

open, so it wasn’t hard for me to take a

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

air was

none of your

your business is

what’s going on here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

said as she turned to me, "You can settle this for us once and for

it?" I

to come in

her in front of Tristan,

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