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

crush on her ever since they were

high pedestal that he was blind

see the light, Hallelujah,

Sophie sang dramatically.

sucks.But Emma's right.Time

advice that day we went

and Carrie when I got my heart broken the first

how healed

Sophie asked him.

now? I would say...a

That's quite

turning point for

like it was yesterday.It was a great

karaoke, singing all these heartbreak songs that

so drunk, he blacked

little drunk, and when I got home, I

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

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

one should go through

wish that on my worst

take my own advice and

and I went to

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

the other hand,

Korean church was

of the songs were in Korean, but hey, I was only

awkward thing about it was that a lot of people at church thought I

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

shrugged it off no

cool with each other

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

had to drive back to Philly that night, so we didn’t wanna do anything

to our apartment

horrible, as

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

my communications with

helping out his friend, and I wanted to gave him the time and

spoken for days, I simply texted him goodnight and I went

morning, the three of us were all back

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

up at the

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

that’s Monique," she

with her group

giggling and

of Tristan and her eyes lit

friends before

"Shoot.She’s coming over here,"

under

You

Sophie urged him.

an

played with her hair as she said, "Hey Tristan, did you

yours?" he shuffled awkwardly,

fabulous," Monique

gave

the same amount of

you haven't had a partner for

stepped even closer

his chest as she said, "What

"Uh...I..."

control, he looked like a lost

got a partner,"I said quickly and

"It’s me,"That wasn’t true.

discussed that at

that Tristan needed help and I did the only thing I

"Who are you again?"

turned to me, eyeing me from head

name’s Emma...and I'm Tristan’s

what has gotten