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

everything.These walls are pretty damn thin,"he said as he

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

god...don’t tell

sister

am so sorry you had to

said as my hand went to cover my mouth, "I

All night long.What was it, like,

god!"I slapped myself on the face

just gloat," Tristan laughed again as he made

buy you lunch, will you erase

it lunch and dinner and you got

"Fine!" I breathed.

of this ever again, especially not

innocently and kept

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

my birthday fiasco and Ian and I made up, everything was

he always made sure to make some time

was starting to get

sophomore, I would have to declare a major by the

me pick my major, Sophie and Tristan pushed me

on campus and Tristan was

SA im het me an idea of what I would like to major

the cooking club, and I

cuisines, but I was also able to bring home

and Sophie loved

cooking wasn’t my passion so I

a lot of insight on diversity and the different

K- Pop for a bit.I also enjoyed old

out cheese and wine, so

I was on the swim team and I

the varsity teams at UPenn,

joining the sports team for me

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

journalist like him, but I did enjoy print media because

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

but I came to

only be visually appealing, but also catchy and has

bit of social life, and a decent amount of sleeping hours, my schedule was

make time during the

but we'd

at least once a

would alternate on who

week it was my turn to go

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

of the time, but about

was only for a day, we

morning and I was

planned on taking the 11 AM train to the city and

the air outside was a little

sweater and my black leggings and I completed

just about to leave the apartment, when

told you! She was just using

and year "You don’t know the

Tristan clapped back.

kill anyone

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

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

bed while Sophie was standing in

the air was thick and

your business, Soph!" Tristan

so your business is

here?" I said

"Nothing," Tristan muttered quickly.

"Emmie, good, you're here,"

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

is it?"

motioned for me to come in and

front of Tristan, and he just rolled his

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