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 say

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

loud last night and Tristan was sleeping

my god...don’t tell

used to it.I lived next to my sister my entire

I am so sorry you had to

my hand went to cover my

long.What was it, like, five

my god!"I slapped myself on the face out of sheer

gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way to

lunch, will you erase last night

and you got yourself a deal,"he was

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever again, especially not in

innocently and

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

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

he always made sure to make some time for

was starting to

I would have to declare a major by the end

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

on campus and Tristan was working in the

a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what

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

cuisines, but

and Sophie

passion so I stopped

cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight

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

so fancy! I also joined

was pretty active back in high school, I was

good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn,

joining the sports team for me was

times because Tristan insisted that I

a journalist like him, but I did enjoy

arts, so

admit it at first, but I

should not only be visually

plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours,

Ian and I would make time during the weekend to go

week, but we'd meet once

least once

would alternate on

week it was my turn to go

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

of the time, but

was only for a day, we would

was Saturday morning and I

on taking the 11 AM train to the city

late October, so the air outside was

my black leggings and I completed the look with my

apartment, when suddenly I

you! She

and year "You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

I'll kill anyone who takes advantage of you.You're too

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

bedroom door was open, so it wasn’t hard for

was sitting on his bed while Sophie was standing in front

tension in the air was thick and

your business, Soph!" Tristan

brother so your business is

said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

turned to me, "You can

it?" I

me to come in and I

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

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