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.

though he didn’t wanna admit it out loud and he acted tough when we were around Sophie, I could see that he was completely heartbroken

a crush on her ever since they

her on such a high pedestal that he was blind to

finally see the light,

Sophie sang dramatically.

Emma's right.Time heals everything,"Tristan

that day we

and Carrie when I got my heart broken the first time, and

healed are you

Sophie asked him.

I would say...a

That's quite high,"I

to karaoke.That night was a big turning point for me,"Tristan smiled at me and said,

that night like it was yesterday.It was a great

were screaming our lungs out at karaoke, singing all these heartbreak songs that he related

so drunk, he blacked

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

sidetracked, but my point was this: we

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

go

wouldn't wish that

to take my own advice and be more accepting of lan and Ally’s

Parks and I

Easter, but my

parents, on the other hand, were super devout

church

were in Korean, but hey, I was only

most awkward thing about it was that a lot

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

it

cool with

around the house for a bit and watched

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

to our apartment

was horrible, as

next day, so the three

my communications with lan at a

was out there helping out his friend, and I wanted to gave him the time and trust he

days,

the three of us were all back

the same Feature Writing class and Sophie had a business

done, we met up at the quad and

debate between Chipotle and Popeye’s when Sophie spotted something on

Monique,"

was with her group of

were giggling and laughing

sight of Tristan and her eyes lit

whispered something to her friends before

"Shoot.She’s coming over here,"

muttered under his

You got

Sophie urged him.

an arm's length

her head to the side and played with her hair as she said, "Hey Tristan, did you have a good

was yours?" he shuffled awkwardly, avoiding eye

fabulous,"

gave Sophie a curt nod and said,

replied with the same amount of

had a partner for the Feature Writing class’ final

even closer to Tristan,

his chest as she said, "What do

"Uh...I..."

was losing control, he looked like

a partner,"I

"It’s me,"That wasn’t true.

hadn't discussed that

Tristan needed help and I did the only thing I

"Who are you again?"

to me, eyeing

name’s Emma...and

what has gotten