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

walls are pretty damn thin,"he said

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

my god...don’t

it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's

I am so sorry you had to

hand went to cover my mouth, "I didn’t think

night long.What was it, like,

god!"I slapped myself on

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

you lunch, will you erase last night from your

it lunch and dinner and you got yourself a

"Fine!" I breathed.

word of this ever again, especially

captain,"he grinned innocently

Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need

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

lot of work to do, but he always made sure to

I was starting

declare a major

Tristan pushed me to attend some of the student

active member of the Korean Society on campus

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

and I got

only that I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was

and Sophie

my passion so I stopped attending the club after

and it gave me a lot of insight

into K- Pop for a bit.I also

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

pretty active back in high school, I was on

I was good enough for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna commit to

sports team for me was mostly

the school newspaper a few times because

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

good eye for visual arts, so he put me in

at first, but I came to

should not only be visually appealing, but

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

I would make time during

week, but

least once a

would alternate on

it was my turn to go visit him in

at making time for each other.We've

wasn’t about the quantity of the time, but about the

we see each other, even if it was only for a day, we would drop everything

I was

the city and grab lunch with Ian by the

October, so the air outside was a

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

to leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling from

you! She was

"You

Tristan clapped back.

my brother and I'll kill anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

bedroom door was open, so it wasn’t hard

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

the air

none of your business, Soph!"

your business

I said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

"You can settle

is it?" I

for me to come in

was standing next to her in front of Tristan, and

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