Teacher's Girl (Aflyingwhale)

EMMA’s POV : 

I didn’t expect I would spend Thanksgiving with Sophie and Tristan and their family, but it turned out to be a lot of fun.

They had a karaoke machine in their basement and we took turns singing and dancing as the night went on.

The food was amazing too.

I had a newfound love for kimchi and Sophie wasn’t kidding about her dad grilling the best pork belly barbeque ever.

They also got something called Makgeolli, which was a milky off-white sparkling rice wine drink.

It was sweet, tangy, and a little bitter, but it also very refreshing.

I might have had a little too much rice wine by the end of the night, I ended up dancing to K-pop videos with Sophie on the couch.

On Friday, I visited Kristen and Hailey and spent some time with them.

They went out of their way to make sure I was feeling at home, even though lan wasn’t around.

Kristen taught me how to make her famous gravy and stuffing.

She taught me a lot of recipes on what lan liked to eat, so I could make it for him someday.

I also chatted a bit with Hailey and I told her about my reservations with Ally.

Hailey dismissed it quickly, saying, "Don’t worry about Ally.They've been friends since forever.If he'd wanted her, something would have happened a long time ago.He doesn't like her like that.He only has eyes on you,"

That was what lan said as well, but maybe I was just being a petty and jealous girlfriend, I still couldn't shake the feeling that maybe Ally secretly likes him.

On Saturday, I spent more time with Sophie and Tristan as they took me on a tour around Atlantic City.

We were not the gambling type, so we just took a walk around the boardwalk and visited the Korean War Memorial.

We talked about everything from their family’s immigrant stories to Sophie’s dream of becoming Forbes’ 30 under 30, to Tristan’s dream of traveling the world as a journalist, and of course, we had to talk about their love lives.

Sophie was still on and off with Micah.

They broke up for a bit a couple of months ago, but now I guess they were back together again.

They broke up and made up so many times already within the year, I've lost count after twenty.

Tristan was moving on from Monique, and that was long overdue.

She still liked to taunt him, though.

She liked having guys’ attention, even though she had no interest in actually dating them.

She still sent Tristan snaps or DMs in the hopes that Tristan would come crawling back to her.

Sophie and I acted as his bodyguard slash overbearing parents.

We prohibited him from replying to any of Monique’s vain texts.

"You are not letting Monique string you along anymore.You are so much better than that,"

Sophie said it all, loud and clear.

"We did not fight the Korean War so you can be imperialized by a white girl in short shorts,"

Tristan and I burst out laughing at her reference to the Korean War, which was fitting since we were walking through the memorial’s park.

"First of all, we weren't even born yet during the Korean War.Second of all, don’t worry about her any more.I’m totally over her,"he laughed.

"You are?"I questioned.

That was a lot quicker than I had expected.

He was basically in love with this girl for almost three years.

"Yeah.Once you guys showed me what she truly is, I’m so turned off by her now,"

It wasn't pretty, but Sophie and I contacted our friends at various frats and we got hold of a bunch of pictures, snaps, videos, and texts between Monique and a whole slew of frat guys all around campus.

Let's call it what it is, Monique is a player.

She enjoyed toying with people’s hearts and she took advantage of their kindness.

After we showed everything to Tristan, he got so disgusted by her, he deleted everything about her on his phone.

wanna admit it out loud and he acted tough when we were around Sophie, I could see that he was completely

ever since they were in

her on such a high pedestal

finally see the

Sophie sang dramatically.

sucks.But Emma's

did give him this advice that day we went

from Tiff and Carrie when I got my heart

one to ten, how healed are you right now? Ten being

Sophie asked him.

I

That's quite

stayed with me and we went to karaoke.That night was a big turning point for

like it was yesterday.It was

all these heartbreak songs that he related

so drunk, he blacked

was only a little drunk, and when I got home, I had my first virtual sex

got sidetracked, but my point was this: we all could use

I was doing for

one should go

that on my

take my own advice and be more

and

Easter, but my

on the other hand, were super devout

Korean church was

the songs were in Korean, but hey, I was

about it was that a lot of people at church

around the same age who are not siblings are sitting together at church, it must mean that

shrugged it

were cool

made us lunch we lay around the house for a bit and

that night, so we didn’t wanna do anything too

our

horrible,

the three of us got into our

keeping my communications with lan at a

friend, and I wanted to gave him the time and trust

days, I simply texted him goodnight and I went

Monday morning, the three of us were all back on

same Feature Writing class and Sophie had a business class at around

at the quad and

a hot debate between Chipotle and Popeye’s when Sophie spotted something on the corner of her eye that

Monique,"

her group of

and

sight of Tristan and her

something to her friends before

"Shoot.She’s coming over here,"

muttered under his

strong, You

Sophie urged him.

was an arm's length away from

her head to the side and played with her hair as she said, "Hey

awkwardly, avoiding eye contact

fabulous," Monique

Sophie, she gave Sophie a curt nod

replied with the same amount of

heard you haven't had a partner for the Feature

even closer to

a hand on his chest as she

"Uh...I..."

losing control, he looked like

can't.He’s already got a partner,"I said quickly and

"It’s me,"That wasn’t true.

discussed that at

Tristan needed help and I did the only

"Who are you again?"

eyeing me from head to

name’s Emma...and

didn't know what has gotten into