Sunshine, Starlight | Aryan Simhadri

Part 110

"See, I'm no stranger and it would really make me happy to get that little girl an ice cream"

"I really can't let you do that" she looked at the girl who was looking at some other kids eating their ice cream "you would really do that ?"

"I would really like that, but I won't do it if you say no" she looked like she was thinking hard about it and it broke my heart to see that pained expression

"Alexa" the girl turned her head to Ashley "can you come here real quick honey" I smiled and stood up watching the little girl run over to us "do you know what this kind lady just offered ?"

"What ?"

"You wanted an ice cream right ?" I asked her watching her eyes widen, she looked at her mother for approval who nodded "here let's get you an ice cream then" I offered her my hand which she gladly took basically pulling me over to the ice stand "go ahead, tell the man what you want"

"I want uh, strawberry" he handed her the ice cream and she grinned brightly rushing back to her mother

"Can I get another cone of chocolate please"

"There you go, that would be 5$" I gave him the money and went back to the bench Ashley was sitting on

"I hope you like chocolate ice cream"

"You didn't have to do that"

"I know, I wanted to" she smiled and took it as I looked back at Aryan who was still on the phone explaining something and sat down again

"Thank you"

"You're very welcome dear" I smiled at the girl, Alexa, who went back to play around

"Why would you do this ? You don't even know us" I shrugged a little

"No child should have to watch everyone get something when they can't have it, I was a child wanting ice cream not too long ago and I wouldn't have wanted to watch the others get one when I couldn't."

"How old are you ? You look way too young to talk so mature"

"15"

"15 ?!"

"Yeah"

"Wow, people your age are normally really..."

"Annoying, loud, immature"

"Yeah something like that" she laughed "Alexa is a good kid, I wish I could give her more. She was diagnosed with diabetes type 1 a little while ago and it's... expensive" playing Stacey had taught me a lot about diabetes and how tough it is on people and especially on children so I felt double as bad as I would normally when I heard about the diabetes

"Have you tried a go-fund me or something like that ? I'm sure a lot of people would donate" she shook her head a little

"It's no use, I tried it once and then kept it down cause people told me that I'm a terrible mother for letting her suffer like that" she sounded like she was about to start crying "that's why I was so rude earlier, my fences are a little high when it comes to her, I get a little defensive" she took her phone out and showed me the side

"That's b- nonsense, that doesn't make you a bad mother. Life is expensive and medication even more, our healthcare system sucks. Can I..?"

"Of course" she passed me her phone, I logged into my instagram account through aryans phone that he had given me at some point and put the link for it on my story and wrote a little on it, Ashely typed a little about Alexa's medical history into Aryans phone and I uploaded the story

"It's not gonna-" she was interrupted by a message, she looked at me wide eyes before looking on her phone to find that someone had actually donated already "what are you ? Some saint ?" I laughed a little at that

"I didn't really do anything, I hope you get the help and resources you deserve, you seem like a great mother" a tear fell onto her cheek and I pulled her into a hug "don't listen to people hating, I know it's difficult sometimes but you have to push through, don't let the few bad people get to you when there are millions of good ones around"

"Thank you so much, you can't imagine how much this means to me" she got another message on her phone and found another person having donated, I turned my head to find Aryan leaned on a lantern watching me, finally being done with his phone call

"I really hope this works out for you, maybe we'll see each other again some day"

"I hope so, you have kind soul, never let anyone ruin that Belle. Karma will give you the best thing you deserve"

I walked up to Aryan a grin growing on my face, he wrapped and arm around me and pulled me to him

"Going around being a hero again ?"

"No, just a human" he placed a kiss on the side of my head

"Super human"

"What did you talk to Charlie about so long anyways ?"

"Well we started with talking about the party, then kinda completely drifted away from that, I'm not exactly sure what exactly we talked about to be honest" he laughed, I laughed too shaking my head at him "well what did you do over there ?"

"Just helped a mother out, you have my insta on your phone now by the way, I was too lazy to log out"

"Oh, will I see all your lovers dming you ?" I made a playful expression like I had just gotten caught

"Oh shit, I forgot about that"

"Yeah, I figured"

"Yeah, well just don't tell my boyfriend and we should be fine"

"Well what do I get for not telling your boyfriend" I looked at him with raised eyebrows

"Well what do you want ?" we stopped walking and just stood there, he leaned a little closer to me

"You know I really want to kiss you" he whispered grinning, his hands sliding along my waist and pulling me closer to him

"I think that's doable" I muttered back before connecting our lips

We went back to the hotel after that and saw Walker, Leah, Dior and Andrew sitting in the Lobby and joined them

The baby-sitters club premiere was coming up soon, followed by the press tour making my schedule full to the seconds

I probably wouldn't be seeing this group together until we start filming the next season and that was actually really sad, Leah, Walker, Charlie and Aryan were coming to the premiere but Dior and Andrew weren't gonna make it since they had other stuff going on

We talked and laughed a lot throughout the night, Charlie joined us about half an hour after Aryan and I arrived too and it was honestly great

I caught myself holding my drink close to me at all times, even in this group with people I trusted more than myself

Maybe the drugging didn't affect me physically but it had definitely left a mark mentally

I figured this wouldn't be the last time I was this careful and thinking about the night made my hands start shaking and my heart racing

How could something that I couldn't even remember scar me this much ?

I vividly remembered James blocking my way out, caging me against the wall, me not even having the strength to hit his arm, just thinking about his face that close to mine made my stomach turn around

Aryan grabbed my hand making me flinch out of my thoughts, I looked up and met his worried eyes, he frowned a little, I knew the expression, he was subtly asking if I was okay without pulling the attention to me. I flashed him a smile and nodded, reassuring that I was fine

But was I fine ?

Authors note:
I was not half asleep reading through this today 👯‍♀️
But I am in bed and forgot to remove my make up and now I want to cry.
Anywaysss I just wanted to remind yall what a sweet soul our dear Belle here is my baby 🤭🫶

Besides the story but I'm getting my grades for 3 of the most important exams tomorrow so please everyone wish me luck and pray for me 😔🤭🫶🫶