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 he knocked on the wall a

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

my god...don’t tell

my sister my entire life.It's the

I am so sorry you

hand went to cover my mouth,

was

myself on the face out of sheer

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

buy you lunch, will you

dinner and you got yourself a deal,"he was totally milking

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever again, especially not in front of

captain,"he grinned innocently and

bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some

birthday fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was right again in the

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

however, I was

a sophomore, I would have to declare a major by the end of

and Tristan pushed me to attend some

Society on campus and Tristan

wasn't a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would like to major

the cooking club, and I got two words for

only that I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also able to bring home free food

and Sophie

so I stopped attending the club after a

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

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

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

high school, I was on the swim team and I

teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna commit to it

me was mostly for exercising and good

the school newspaper a few times because

a journalist like him, but I

so he put me in charge of

at first, but I came to enjoy

good ad should not only be visually appealing, but also

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

time during the weekend to

but we'd meet once every two

at least once

would alternate on who goes

to go visit him in the

each other.We've learned a lot

of the time, but about the

a day, we would drop everything

Saturday morning and I was

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

October, so the air outside was

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

leave the apartment, when suddenly

you! She was just using

year "You don’t know the

Tristan clapped back.

and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

was open, so it wasn’t hard for me to take

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

tension in the air

your business, Soph!"

my brother so your business is

going on here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

to me, "You can settle this for us once

it?"

for me to come

front of Tristan, and he just rolled his head back in

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