Act XIII
Astro sends her an uber back to the mansion, but she walks 3 blocks to catch it.
driver: you live here?
Aris: sorta
driver: wow! you must be a lucky girl!
Aris: ...yea..uh huh.She fake smiles and gets out.
next day
Astro approaches Aris smoking on the balcony. She has tears running down her face like a waterfall as she makes no noise, she dyed her hair again. The dye was all over her hands and she looked kinda a mess. In a good way to astro, it turned him on. He liked the messy chaotic 'idgaf' look on her.
astro: uh? you okay serial killer?
*he laughs and she slightly chuckles looking up at him*
Aris: you really care?
astro: what i said
Aris: you dont. but thats okay, someday someone will
astro: i care, dont know what you wan me to care about *shrugs*
Aris: if you dont know then your fuckin clueless, like i thought.
astro: who are you talking-
*he yanks her arm forcefully pulling her close to his face, making her look him in the eyes dropping the blunt*
astro: YOU TALKIN TO ME?Aris wants to burst into ugly crying with her face quivering but, she breathes and contains. She thinks to herself...not again infront of him. If her mom saw her, she'd call her a wimp for crying about it. he lets her go kinda pushing her off a bit. He looks mad.
astro: OH.
he walks away.
next day
Astro texts Aris.
astro🧨: hungry?
Aris: not really.
astro🧨: food here, comeAris groans, she gets in the shower and gets dressed. She hadn't been eating much anyway. She looks around and finds everyone in the studio. She sees them all in the glass box surrounding astro, laughing and joking. She feels shivers remembering it all. She goes in and they all look at her for a second, noticing the color change. They don't say much, a brief greeting and she says nothing. Dom makes a joke that shes being rude and needs to learn her place. She sits down, and eats quietly in the background of their conversations. They were pretending she wasn't even there. Draya walks in and they all greet her happily, she sits in between Astro and Dom eating with them.
Draya: what do those colors mean?
Everyone goes quiet and Aris notices shes talking to her, she looks up at her.
Aris: uh... i-i dont know *she stutters*
draya: you dont know anything do you
Aris: nope! just go by how i feel *she says in a sarcastic tone*
draya: HMPH...id love to live such a CLUELESS life like that, wouldn't you? just being a TINY LITTLE fly away NO thought behind the eyes
*she laughs and they all laugh with her*
Aris: hm... *shrugs, stuffing her mouth with food*
draya: have some class, huh?they hang around the studio and as long as Aris is there, Draya is there. She taunts her a lot asking her if she even knows what shes doing, Aris can barely focus while shes around. She uses Aris as her assistant too, ordering her to run miscellaneous errands. Draya makes her walk and feed her dogs, go through her closet and throw out old clothes, ordering new stock for her stores. Lots of random tasks that had nothing to do with the studio. Astro allows it and tells Aris, Draya gets whatever she wants. Aris didn't mind as it kept her away from Astro and his friends.
next month
Aris goes down to the studio and Astro wasn't there, Aris feels relief not to see him. Hes been so cold and rude to her every time they cross paths.. She avoids him as much as she can. She hangs around and a conversation starts up amongst Astro's friends towards her.
trap: you give gyal a run for ha P's
*Trap laughs*
Aris: me?
*She laughs and they all laugh at her cluelessness*
Aris: thats mad! *she mocks their accent and they go crazy laughing*
anti: she dont come round here so much in a year
Aris: oh? really?
trap: is jealousy
Aris: why would i be anything to be jealous of? im broke no money, no family and everyone here thinks im a freak! *she pouts crossing her arms jokingly and they all laugh*
trap: not you, astro
ace: she on care bout his music
*they all laugh even louder this time*
trap: now she front here acting like its the best shit she ever heard, when has she ever bumped his songs?
anti: She like american rap for real
trap: drakes biggest fan!
*They all laugh and Aris rolls her eyes at all of them*
Aris: please, astro doesn't want me
trap: yea uh huh
*they all laugh*Once the night is over, Aris walks down the hall and bumps into Dom while looking at her phone.
dom: yo, you alright?
Aris: yea im straight...She keeps walking to get away from him. Dom turns and wants to say something, but doesn't. She goes and sleeps on the couch in the back room upstairs. In the middle of the night, Astro wakes her up and guides her to another room downstairs.
astro: sleep here, yea?
Aris' disoriented and confused, she lays back down and doesnt say anything.
When she wakes up the next morning, she walks out the room and starts to look around at where she is. She could've sworn this room was empty not too long ago. She loves the room since she has her own space and it was right on the patio so she could go out for a smoke whenever she pleases. She texts astro "Thank you." and astro likes the message.
Astro's friends start talking to Aris again. Less jokes and more asking her how she is. They wonder where she is, make sure shes apart of the count, make sure shes ate and check in on her. Shes apart of the group, they feel close to her. They're like a pack of wolves for her, while they were at the club one night, a guy had disrespected her and she didn't take it personally, but they all jumped on him immediately. She didn't even say anything, she ignored the random man, but they all saw it happen ready to protect her.
later that night
dom: yo, so what up witchall, like, you like ha?
*Astro shrugs*
astro: hm..she cool..
dom: word? im try n get that
astro: ...yea go for it bro...
dom: you think she down?
*he shrugs again*
astro: hm? make her down, innit?Astro evilly laughs while smirking and sipping, Dom laughs back as they do a handshake.
dom: fuck with it fam
end act XIII
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