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.

he acted tough when we were around

her ever since they were in

pedestal that he was blind to her

you finally see the light,

Sophie sang dramatically.

sucks.But Emma's

advice that day

advice from Tiff and Carrie when I got my heart broken the first

one to ten, how healed are you right

Sophie asked him.

I would

quite high,"I

you stayed with me and we went to karaoke.That night was a big turning point for me,"Tristan smiled

remembered that night like it was

all these heartbreak songs that he related

so drunk,

and when I got home, I had my first virtual

but my point was this: we all could use a

doing for Tristan was the same thing that

go

that

I guess...I have to take my own advice and be more accepting of

and

been to church before for Christmas and Easter, but my parents were never the super

parents, on the other hand, were super devout

Korean church

songs were in Korean, but hey, I was only

that a lot of people at church thought I

people of the opposite gender around the same age who are not siblings are sitting

we shrugged it off

I were cool with each other

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

back to Philly that night,

back to our

was horrible, as

day, so the

communications with lan at a

and I wanted to

days, I simply texted

of us

and I had the same Feature Writing class and Sophie had a

were done, we met up at the quad and talked about getting lunch

and Popeye’s when Sophie spotted something

that’s Monique," she

with her group

were giggling and laughing as they

Tristan and her eyes lit

friends before strolling

"Shoot.She’s coming over here,"

muttered under his

You got

Sophie urged him.

stopped when she was an arm's length away

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

awkwardly, avoiding eye

fabulous," Monique

landed on Sophie, she gave Sophie a curt

with the same

a partner for

she stepped even closer to

laid a hand on his chest as she said, "What do you say we work

"Uh...I..."

control, he looked like

got a partner,"I said

"It’s me,"That wasn’t true.

discussed

Tristan needed help and I did the

"Who are you again?"

me, eyeing me from head to

name’s Emma...and

what