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

ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked on

up instantly.I was being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping

my god...don’t tell

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

am so sorry you had

hand went to cover

All night long.What was it, like,

myself on the face out

you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he

you erase last night

it lunch and dinner and you got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

ever again, especially not in front

innocently

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

and I made

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

school started however, I was

have to declare a major by

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

was an active member of the Korean Society on campus and

give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would like to

with the cooking club, and I

I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but

and Sophie loved

passion so I

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

K- Pop

out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined a

pretty active back in high school, I was on the swim team and I

enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't

the sports team for me

newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go check

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

visual arts, so he put me

didn't wanna admit it at first, but I came to enjoy working for

should not only be visually appealing, but also catchy and has a strong

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

time during the weekend

meet every week, but we'd meet once every

least once

would alternate on who

turn to go

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

quantity of

only for a day, we would drop everything and our focus would be on

I

the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian by

was late October, so the

put on this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed the

the apartment, when suddenly I heard

told you! She was

"You don’t know the whole story.Just

Tristan clapped back.

anyone who

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

it wasn’t hard for me

on his bed while Sophie was standing in

air was

none of your business,

so your business is my

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

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

me, "You can settle this

is it?" I

me to come in and I followed

her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled his

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