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

heard everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the

last

my god...don’t

next to my sister

so sorry

said as my hand went to cover my

night long.What was it,

slapped myself on the face out

Tristan laughed again as

you erase last

dinner and you got yourself a deal,"he was

"Fine!" I breathed.

ever again, especially not in front

innocently and kept

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

and Ian and I made up, everything was right

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

school started however, I was starting to get

would have to declare a major by the

pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed

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

wasn't a bad idea.Joining all these clubs would give Aa SA im het me an idea of what

club, and I got two words for you: free

I got to learn cooking various cuisines, but I was also able

Sophie loved

so I stopped

gave me a lot of insight on diversity and the different cultures

and got into K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie nights

and wine, so fancy! I also

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

enough for the varsity teams at UPenn,

me was

newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that I

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

arts, so he put me in charge of the advertisement section in the

first, but I came to enjoy working

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

these clubs plus my afternoon classes, a little bit of social life, and a decent

time during the weekend to go

but we'd meet once every

least once

would alternate on

turn to go

each other.We've learned a lot from our previous

quantity of

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

morning and I was getting ready to

train to the city

so the

this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed

apartment, when suddenly I heard yelling

She was just

was loud and year "You

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

so it wasn’t hard for me to take

on his bed while Sophie was standing in

in the air was thick and

none of your business, Soph!" Tristan

your

here?" I said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

can settle this for us once

is it?"

come in and I followed

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

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