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

damn thin,"he said as he knocked on the wall a

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

my god...don’t tell

next to my sister my entire life.It's the

so sorry you

said as my hand went to cover my

was it, like, five sessions?"he

myself on the face out of sheer

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

you lunch, will you erase

lunch and dinner and you got yourself

"Fine!" I breathed.

a word of this ever

innocently and

sex with Ian around the apartment without a care in the world.I need to maintain some type of dignity

made up, everything was right again

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

started however, I was starting

to declare a

pushed me to attend some of the student clubs

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

SA im het me an

the cooking club, and I got two

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

and Sophie loved

I stopped attending the club after a

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

K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old movie nights at the

wine, so fancy! I also joined a sports

school, I was

the varsity teams at UPenn, and I didn't wanna

me was mostly for

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

like him, but I did enjoy print media because I

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

I came to enjoy working for the

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

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

would make time during the weekend to go see

every week, but we'd meet

at least once a

on

it was my turn to go visit

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

the quantity of the time,

a day, we

was Saturday morning and I was getting ready

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

late October, so the air outside was

this cute white sweater and my black leggings and I

leave the apartment, when

told you! She

year "You don’t know the whole

Tristan clapped back.

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

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

door was open, so it wasn’t hard for

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

in the air was

your

so your business is my

going on here?" I said cautiously

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

to me, "You can settle this for us

it?"

come in and I followed

standing next to her in front of Tristan, and

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