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

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

my god...don’t tell

it.I lived next to my sister my entire

I am so sorry

said as my hand went to cover my mouth,

long.What was it,

on the face out of

Tristan laughed again as he made his way to the

lunch, will you

dinner and you got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

ever

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

remember I have roommates now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around

I made up, everything was

but he always made sure to make some time for

I was starting

a

and Tristan pushed me to attend some of

active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was

a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an

and I got two words for

to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was

and Sophie loved

I

lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures of

of Japanese and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie nights at the French

and wine, so fancy! I also

in high school, I was on the swim team and I

for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I

me was mostly for

visited the school newspaper a few times

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

eye for visual arts, so he put me in charge

wanna admit it at first, but I came to enjoy working for the

not only be visually appealing, but

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

I would make time during the

but we'd meet once every two

at least once

alternate on who goes

it was my turn to go visit

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

the quantity of

only for a day, we would

I was getting ready to

on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with

so the air outside was a little

and my black leggings and I completed

apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling

She was

voice was loud and year "You don’t

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t

while Sophie was standing in

tension in the air was thick and

none of your business,

your

going on here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

to me, "You can settle this for us once

it?" I

to come

her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his

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