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.

acted tough when we

on her ever since

put her on such a high pedestal that he was blind to

see the light, Hallelujah,

Sophie sang dramatically.

sucks.But Emma's right.Time

advice that day we went out to

I got

how healed are

Sophie asked him.

now? I

quite

we went to karaoke.That night was a big turning point for me,"Tristan smiled at me and said, "Don’t know what I'll do

like it was yesterday.It was

singing all these heartbreak

so drunk, he blacked

drunk, and when I got home, I had my first

was this: we all

admit it, what I was doing for Tristan was the same thing that lan was doing for Ally right

go through heartbreak

that on

own advice and be more accepting

and

and Easter, but my

parents, on the other hand, were

church was

Korean, but hey, I was only

was that a lot of people

assumed that when two people of the opposite gender around the same age who are not siblings

shrugged it off no

were cool

Sophie’s mom made us lunch we lay around the house for a bit

drive back to Philly that night,

got back to our

horrible,

tired and we had classes the next day, so the three of us got into our

my communications with lan

out there helping out his friend, and I wanted to

and we hadn't spoken for days, I

of us were

the same Feature Writing class and Sophie had a

at

debate between Chipotle and Popeye’s when

that’s Monique," she

was with her group of

were giggling and laughing as

caught sight of Tristan and her eyes

to her friends before strolling over to

"Shoot.She’s coming over here,"

under

strong, You got

Sophie urged him.

stopped when she was an arm's length away from

her hair

awkwardly, avoiding eye

was fabulous," Monique

gave Sophie a curt

the same

I heard you haven't had a partner for the

as she stepped even closer to Tristan,

laid a hand on his chest as she

"Uh...I..."

losing control, he looked like a

got a

"It’s me,"That wasn’t true.

hadn't discussed

saw that Tristan needed help and I did

"Who are you again?"

turned to me, eyeing me

Emma...and I'm

didn't know what has gotten