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 as he knocked

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

my god...don’t

to my sister my entire life.It's the same thing,"he laughed and

so sorry

my hand went to cover my mouth,

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

myself on the

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

you erase last night

and you got yourself a deal,"he was totally

"Fine!" I breathed.

not a word of this ever again, especially not in front of

grinned innocently

have roommates now.I can’t just have crazy bunny sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some type of dignity

birthday fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was

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

started however, I was

to declare a major by the end of this academic

major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me to attend some of the student clubs at

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

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

started with the cooking club, and I got two words for you:

to learn cooking various cuisines, but I

and Sophie

my passion so I stopped attending the club after a

I joined some cultural clubs and it gave me a lot of insight

little bit of Japanese and got into K- Pop

cheese and wine, so fancy! I also

in high school, I was on the swim team and I

for the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna commit to it

sports team for me was mostly

I visited the school newspaper a few times because Tristan insisted that

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

that I had a good eye for visual arts, so he put me

but I came to

should not only be

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

I would make time during the weekend to go see

meet every week, but we'd

least once a

on

it was my turn to go

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

about the quantity of the time, but

for a day, we would drop everything

was Saturday morning and I was

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

was late October, so the air outside was a

this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I completed the look with my

leave the apartment, when suddenly I heard

She

and year "You

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

bedroom door was open, so it wasn’t hard for

his bed while Sophie was standing in front of

the air

none of your business,

your business

said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

me, "You can settle this for

it?" I

for me to come in and I followed

next to her in front of Tristan,

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