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

are pretty damn thin,"he said

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

my god...don’t tell

to it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the same thing,"he laughed

I am so sorry you had to endure

my hand went to cover my

long.What was

god!"I slapped myself on the

you're still apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his

you lunch, will you erase last night from

lunch and dinner and you got yourself a deal,"he

"Fine!" I breathed.

ever again, especially not in

innocently and kept

can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around

and I made up, everything was

had a lot of work to do, but he always made sure to make some time for me despite

started however, I was starting to get

a major

pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to

an active member of the Korean Society on campus

wasn't a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im

and I

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

and Sophie

so I stopped attending the

I joined some cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight on diversity and the different

K- Pop for a bit.I also

gave out cheese and wine, so fancy! I also

pretty active back in high school, I was on the swim team and I did

enough for the varsity teams at UPenn,

team for me was mostly for exercising

newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I go check

writer or a journalist like him, but I did enjoy print media because I loved

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

it at first, but I came to enjoy working for

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

little bit of social life, and a decent

would make time during the

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

at least

alternate on who

to go visit

making time for each

of the time,

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

Saturday morning and I was getting ready to

on taking the 11 AM train to the city and grab lunch with Ian by the Grand Central

October, so the

sweater and my black leggings and

leave the apartment, when suddenly I

you! She

and year "You don’t know the

Tristan clapped back.

my brother and I'll kill anyone who takes advantage

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

door was open, so it wasn’t hard

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

tension in the air was

your business, Soph!" Tristan

my brother so your

said cautiously with

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

as she turned to me, "You can settle this

is it?"

motioned for me to come in and

Tristan, and he just rolled his

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