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

pretty damn thin,"he said as he

being so loud last night and Tristan was sleeping in the room

god...don’t

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

sorry

said as my hand went to cover my mouth,

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

on the face

still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan

you lunch, will you erase last night from

and you got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever again, especially not in front

innocently and

have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some type of dignity

and I made up, everything

he always made sure

started however, I was

a sophomore, I would have to declare a

me pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me

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

Aa SA im het me

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

learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also

Sophie loved

cooking wasn’t my passion so I stopped

me a lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures of the

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

out cheese and wine, so fancy!

school, I was on the swim team and

for the varsity teams at UPenn, and

the sports team for me was mostly for exercising and

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

him, but I did enjoy print media because

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

at first, but I came to enjoy working

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

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

time during the weekend to go

couldn't meet every week, but we'd meet once every

least once a

alternate on who

it was my turn to go visit

at making time for each

of the time,

for a day, we would drop everything and our focus

morning and I was

city and grab lunch

so the air outside was a little

black leggings

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

you! She was

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

Tristan clapped back.

brother and I'll kill anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

wasn’t

on his bed while Sophie was standing

tension in the air

your

brother so your business

I said cautiously with my

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

turned to me, "You can settle this for us once

it?"

to come

of Tristan, and he

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