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

pretty damn

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

my god...don’t

alright.I’m used to it.I lived next to my sister my entire life.It's the same

so sorry

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

All night long.What was it, like,

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

apologetic.Sophie would just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made his way to the

buy you lunch, will you erase last night

and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

this ever again, especially not in front of

captain,"he grinned innocently and kept

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

I made up, everything was right

do, but he always made sure to make some time for me despite his

was

to declare a major by the end of this academic

and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the

active member of the Korean Society on campus and Tristan was working

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

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

cuisines, but I was also able to bring home free food every

Sophie loved

so I stopped

clubs and it gave me a lot of

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

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also joined a

school, I

varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna

joining the sports team for me was

a few times

much of a writer or a journalist like him, but I

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

it at first, but I came to

should not only be visually appealing, but also catchy and

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

make time during the weekend to

week, but we'd meet once every two

least

on

it was my turn to go visit him

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

about the quantity of the time, but about the

for a day,

I was getting

to the city and grab lunch with Ian by the

late October, so the air

my black leggings

apartment,

She was just using

"You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

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

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

in the air

of your business, Soph!"

my brother so your business

going on here?" I said cautiously with my head

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

it?" I

to come in

her in front of Tristan, and he just rolled

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