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

to ask.I've heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the wall

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

god...don’t tell

next to my sister my entire life.It's the same

sorry

went to cover my mouth, "I

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

my god!"I slapped myself on the face out

at least you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way to the

lunch, will you erase last night

lunch and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever again, especially not in

grinned innocently and

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

Ian and I made

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

I was starting

a sophomore, I would have to declare a

my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the

the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was working in the school

would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what I would like to

club, and I got two words for you:

got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I

Sophie loved

passion so I stopped attending the

gave me a lot of insight on

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

so fancy! I also joined a sports

pretty active back in high school, I was on the

good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and

me was mostly for exercising

school newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go

him, but I did enjoy print media because

had a good eye for visual arts, so he put me in charge of

it at first, but I came to

learned that a good ad should not only be visually appealing, but also catchy and has

classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping

and I would make time during the weekend to go see each

every week, but we'd meet

least once a

would alternate on who

turn to go visit him

each other.We've learned a

the quantity of

for a day, we would drop everything and our focus

Saturday morning and I

on taking the 11 AM train to the city

so the air

black leggings and I completed the look with my knee-length

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

She was just using

loud and year "You don’t know the whole story.Just

Tristan clapped back.

brother and I'll kill anyone who takes

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

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

while Sophie was standing in

air was

of your business,

so your business is

here?" I said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

it?" I

me to come in and I followed

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

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