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

are pretty damn thin,"he said as

so loud last night and Tristan

god...don’t tell

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

so sorry you

my hand went to cover

long.What was it, like, five

myself on the face out

just gloat," Tristan laughed again as

you erase last

lunch and dinner and you got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

not a word of this ever again, especially

grinned innocently and

now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a

fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything

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

started however, I was starting to get

to declare a major by the end of this academic

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

was an active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan

Aa SA im het me an idea

cooking club, and I got

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

Sophie loved

so I stopped attending the

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

Pop for a bit.I also

cheese and wine, so fancy! I

I was on the swim team and I did

varsity teams at

team for me was

newspaper a few times because

like him, but I did enjoy print media because

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

at first, but I came

not only be visually appealing, but

my afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours, my

during the weekend to go see each

every week, but we'd meet once

at least once a

alternate on who

my turn to go visit him

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

wasn’t about the quantity of the time, but about

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

and I

planned on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian by the Grand

was late October, so the air outside was a little

white sweater and my black leggings and I completed the look

leave the apartment,

you! She was

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

Tristan clapped back.

and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard for me to take a peek

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

tension in the air was

of your

so your business is

said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

can settle this

is it?"

for me to come in and I followed

in front of Tristan, and he just

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