Into the Light | Peter Parker x OC

Chapter Seventy-Nine

A/N: hey guys!!!

the sun came out after like five days of straight rain and i feel like i'm blossoming like a flower lol

anyway, i'm working on getting my new novel kingdom of gold uploaded on here soon since i recently finished it! i literally have not had any time to work on it though because school has suddenly bogged me down with SO much work and life is kinda crazy BUT i printed my first draft out and holy cow it was so big, it barely fit in my one inch ring binder but IT LOOKS SO COOL. seeing the words i wrote written down on real paper is truly a sight for sore eyes

i've started on plotting the next book in the series (well, technically the prequel) and it's slow going but it's going (kinda). i don't want to set a deadline for it but i would like to start writing it soon because i'm not a plotter and i love writing more than i love plotting (i actually hate plotting ugh)

fun fact: when i started writing into the light (now called from the dark), all i knew going into it was that adie had killed tony's parents and she for some reason woke up in his tower with no memories—i knew nothing else beyond that lol but i just started writing it because it was one of those stories that i just knew i had to write and viola. now it's turned into a monster that's probably around half a million words 😳

anyway, this is a pretty long and happy chapter so i hope you enjoy it!! (also the song up there is one of my FAVORITE compositions and it pairs very nicely with this very chill chapter :))

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"Love isn't easy

and it might be delicate at times,

but, if it's done right,

nothing can destroy it.

Just like spiderwebs."
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Adelaide had left the penthouse for the first time in weeks.

It wasn't for much, just an evening walk in the park alone. But it felt rejuvenating. The park was filled with the sound of children playing and people talking and laughing. It felt so strange to see that the world had been going on, even when she had been boiling in her pain for months now. People still took their dogs out for walks and the children still played tag with their friends just a few miles from the home she had spent weeks mourning in.

There was something comforting in seeing the small things that never stopped. Birds still gathered by the river to eat and people still asked for directions. The world didn't stop spinning on its axis when Tony died. It might have reeled for a bit, but then it moved on. They all still had lives to lead. She was the only one who had completely stopped living.

She sat down on an empty bench next to the creek and watched the water as it flowed over the rocks and through the earth. Her mind didn't wander. She thought of nothing else except for the water.

It felt nice.

No pain, no anger, no sorrow. And maybe not happiness either, but she knew it would be a while before she was ever happy again. And that was okay. She had all the time she needed.

But, for now, she was simply sitting in the park, watching the water flow.

And that was enough.