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

damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the

shot up instantly.I was being so loud last

my god...don’t tell

lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the

I am so sorry

to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think

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

slapped myself on the

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

you erase

got yourself a deal,"he

"Fine!" I breathed.

word of this ever again,

captain,"he grinned innocently and

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

made up, everything was right again in

still busy had a lot of work to do, but he always made sure

I was

to declare a major by the end of this

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

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

Aa SA im het me an idea of what

started with the cooking club, and I got two words

got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also

and Sophie

passion so I stopped attending the club after

lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures of the

into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie nights at

gave out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also

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

I was good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and

joining the sports team for me was mostly for exercising and good

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

journalist like him, but

arts, so he put me in charge of the advertisement section

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

be visually appealing, but also catchy and has a

these clubs plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social

I would make time during the weekend to go see each

every week, but we'd

least once

would alternate on who goes

was my turn to go

at making time for each

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 be on being

was Saturday morning and I was

train to the city and grab lunch

so the air outside was a little

black leggings and I completed the look

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

She was

voice was loud and year "You don’t know

Tristan clapped back.

brother and I'll kill anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

it wasn’t hard for me to take a peek

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

tension in the air was thick

your

your business is my

I said cautiously with

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

"You can settle this for

is it?" I

me to come in

front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head

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