𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝

A loved person

The next morning I awake to my phone constantly buzzing. I groan, but eventually reach for it and pick up.

"What's up?" I grumble sleepily.

"Y/n! You gotta check your album streams!" I hear Sarah's overall excited voice beaming. I frown a little, bare capable to handle such excitement in the morning.

"That's why you're waking me 9 AM?" I state with displeasure, clearly audible.

"Exactly, it's 9 AM Y/n! It's not like it's 7 AM. Get your pretty ass up and check the album streams!" Sarah points out matter of factly, making me only shake my head in disapproval.

I guess myself lucky that my manager can't just come into Scarlett's house and our bedroom, otherwise Sarah surely would've spilled cold water over me already.

"Fine!" I groan as I get up and waddle over to my little home office, that Scarlett gave me as a "present to a good arrangement".

I sit down in my chair and open my laptop, looking up the Spotify site of my album. The moment I get a look on the streams, my mind explodes just like the thousands of fireworks in my body.

"7 million!?" I burst out, gasping for air. "How's that even possible?!"

Sarah on the other line however laughs heartily at my outburst. "Seems like her little kiss blew the last skeptical minds."

"A kiss? Just a kiss would never blow about like 6 million minds, Sarah." I express doubt.

"Oh so your wife's kiss is just a kiss now? Y/n get your balls together! She's Scarlett Johansson after all." Sarah taunts me rather seriously.

"Right. Right. But still. 7 million... I think I'm going to pee myself whenever I go on tour again. Having so many stans." I jokingly say, laughing softly.

"Come on silly, it's not like you didn't get used to so many fans and stans during the arrangement already." Sarah brings in and I nod along in understanding.

She got a point. During my official time with Scarlett, I get approached more often by random people on the streets, asking me for a picture or else. But that's nothing compared to when half of those 7 million come together on a concert.

"So am I not hearing any complaints about calling her your wife today eh?" Sarah teasingly adds, making me chuckle a little.

"You're probably right about the fans and stans. And no, I'm obviously not complaining. I think it's not fair to Scarlett, you know? She seems to put so much effort into this fake marriage, for us both to feel comfortable around each other still." I honestly admit, not realizing that Scarlett just approached my room's door.

"Y/n honey, you sound so grown up and settled. You have no idea how proud you're not only making me." Sarah, who put on her sensual mode, gets a little sentimental.

Have I really been this childish? Well, even though I can't agree on that one, I at least can agree that I really seem to be more grown up in matter of relationships than I ever have been before. Maybe.

"Don't get too sentimental there Sarah. I'm trying, that's all." I pause for a moment and think of something to cheer up the sentimental mood of my manager.

"Oh hey, not sure if I'm supposed to share that with you, but you're my closest friend so uh," I chuckle softly, "three days ago Rose had a big moment of her defiant phase and you'll never guess who eventually eased the buddy." I proudly tell, smiling like crazy at the memory.

The memory of when three days ago Rose, had a big moment of her age-typical defiant phase. I wouldn't say that Scarlett was overwhelmed, but Rose did literally throw herself onto the ground in the supermarket when her mother told her she won't buy that toy. Of all things, I was the one who advised Scarlett to just let her lay there and live her phase...

"...at this we continued walking and soon after Scarlett and I did, Rose came chasing after us and she was so clingy to Scarlett since then. And she didn't even make a fuss about that toy car anymore." I tell Sarah, who giggles amused all along.

"No way you just told Scarlett to let her lay there. Y/n you genius!" Sarah laughs softly. "But it apparently worked eh?" She asks.

"Yeah yeah. Apparently it did. Well, I'm really glad that her kids and I get along pretty well. They're the last people that should get into struggle or displeasure with this whole situation for them."

Just as I said this, I eventually hear footsteps behind me and spin around. My jaw drops for a split second when I see Scarlett. How long has she been standing at my door?!

"So Sarah, thanks for checking in with me. I gotta hang up now. Let's meet at Sammy's for hot chocolate 3 PM." I quickly rush out, before I hang up and focus on Scarlett nervously. I however don't dare to speak up first, uncertain about the situation.

It's eventually Scarlett who gives me a warm and reassuring smile, while she puts two coffee cups onto my table. "Good morning dear, what's got you up so early after such a long night?"

"Good morning," I hesitate, feeling uneasy about how long she may has been listening to my call, "Sarah technically dragged me out of bed to show me this." I point back at my laptop, showing Scarlett the 7 million streams.

"Oh my Gosh! This is amazing Y/n!" She immediately beams, genuinely happy and excited about what I reached.

That is when my smile widens too. "I couldn't believe it at first. It's crazy and I love it!"

"You deserve it. The album really is a masterpiece." Scarlett sincerely speaks, giving my cheek a gentle kiss. Of course I got no other choice than to immediately blush slightly at this. Wonderful.

I nod along, smiling gratefully at Scarlett while I grab my coffee cup and sip on it. There's yet again a silence that makes me drift back into my uneasy thoughts about what I did tell Sarah.

Scarlett however just takes another chair and sits down on it close to me. Face to face. "I'm truly glad that you and my baby get along so well, Y/n. You've become a loved person in their lives, I can tell."

At her sincere words, I more and more feel at ease. I give Scarlett a warm smile as I nod in understanding.

"And when you got that idea with Rose in the supermarket, I must admit I already shared it with literally everyone who's closest or family." She adds with a giggle.

I playfully gasp and my eyes widen. "You did?" I then chuckle, feeling at ease now that Scarlett seems to be ok with sharing some things to our closest people.

Scarlett just hums in confirmation, "plus that I already let myself get inspired by your way to handle Rose's pretty tough phases." She adds, while sipping on her own coffee. She looks at peace.

"Oh really? What did you do?" I ask with genuine curiosity, smiling excitedly.

The blonde chuckles. "The other day when you were in the studio, Rose started to annoy everyone because she wanted to go outside already. I couldn't just give in, since Rose had some more homework to do still. These homework where really difficult, I can tell." She sweetly complains and I chuckle softly. "Eventually I told Rose that I can understand her and I promised her that we'll go outside once Rose had done the homework. With that I left her in his room and well, she peacefully continued her stuff until she was done." She proudly adds and her eyes sparkle.

I smile genuinely at Scarlett. "Apparently Rose was at peace with your decision." I confirm, since I just got home this day when they were heading outside and Rose seemed truly happy about going outside, like nothing happened before.

At this point I can't help the feeling of being a cute little family with Scarlett and her lovely kid. I however hope that it would stay like this for as long as the arrangement would remain. Which probably won't gave to be for so long anymore, since I'm back even more famous as I was before.

Calculating the loss of streams I would get due to a possible divorce from Scarlett, I would still be one of the top musicians. Even when I feel uncomfortable thinking about a divorce now that everything seems just like it's meant to be, I can't stop myself from considering the worst.