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

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

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

my god...don’t tell

next to my sister

sorry

my hand went to cover my mouth, "I

night long.What was

god!"I slapped myself on the

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

you lunch, will you erase last night from your

got

"Fine!" I breathed.

not a word of this ever again,

innocently

have roommates now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain

fiasco and Ian and I made

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

I was starting to

I would have to declare a major

Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some

member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan

Aa SA im het me an

first started with the cooking club, and I

to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also able to bring

and Sophie

passion so I

it gave me a lot of insight

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

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined

in high school, I was on the swim team

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

the sports team for me was mostly for exercising

a few times because Tristan

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

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

I came

ad should not only be visually appealing, but also

of social life, and

and I would make time during the weekend to

every week, but we'd

at least once a

on

it was my turn to go visit him in the

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

of

if it was only for a day, we would drop everything and our focus would

Saturday morning and I was getting ready

AM train to the city

late October, so the air outside was

this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed the look with

was just about to leave the apartment, when suddenly I

She was just

year "You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

You're my brother and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

wasn’t hard for me to

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

in the air

none of your business,

your business is my

here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

me, "You can settle this for us once and

is it?"

me to come

was standing next to her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled

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