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

I don’t have to ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as

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

god...don’t

to it.I lived next to my sister my entire

I am so sorry you had to endure

said as my hand went to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think you'd

All night long.What was it, like,

myself on the face out

Tristan laughed again as

you lunch, will you

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

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again,

grinned innocently and kept

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

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

always made sure to make some time for

was starting to

a major by the

Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of

member of the Korean Society on campus and

idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would like to

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

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

Sophie

cooking wasn’t my passion so I stopped attending the club after

I joined some cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight

and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie

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

school, I was

varsity teams at UPenn, and I

joining the sports team for me was mostly

few times because Tristan

wasn't much of a writer or a journalist like him, but I did

said that I had a good eye for visual arts, so he put me in charge

wanna admit it at first, but I

should not only be visually appealing,

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

and I would make time during the weekend to go see

meet every week, but we'd meet once every two

least

alternate on who

it was my turn to go visit him in

at making time for each other.We've learned a lot

wasn’t about the quantity of the time,

for a day, we would drop

Saturday morning and I was getting ready

planned on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian

late October, so the air outside was

sweater and my black leggings and I completed the look with my

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling from Tristan’s

She was

was loud and year "You don’t know the

Tristan clapped back.

I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

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

bed while Sophie was standing

tension in the air was thick and

your business, Soph!"

so your

said cautiously with my head peeking

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

"You can settle this for us once

it?" I

for me to come in and I

standing next to her in front of Tristan, and he

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