Sunshine, Starlight | Aryan Simhadri

Part 129

Time skip 3 weeks later
July 26th 2024

"It's out ?!"

„It's out oh my god" I stared at Spotify where you could officially listen to the album in shock, I had actually done this

This pretty much made the break up official without either of us having to say anything about it, it was hard enough as it is I personally didn't want to go tell the world about it

Leena hugged me from behind also looking at the screen

"You did it" she grinned happily placing a kiss on my cheek and while I was so happy and excited for it I was also quite scared, would this result in hate towards me ? Or Aryan ?

Filming for Percy Jackson was also starting in not even a week which meant I had to face him, every day for months.

I also didn't tell Dior and Charlie about this, I don't think they knew we had broken up, I had actually kind of slipped out of contact with everyone a little

Leah and I had been in contact a lot, all the time so she knew, she figured out on her own at one point

I could see my phone blowing up with messages, hear the voices around me celebrating the success loudly and yet a piece of my heart just couldn't be happy, not when the two people I wanted to be here and celebrate with me weren't here. He couldn't be here because we weren't talking. She couldn't be here because....

The whole situation was just really overwhelming, so while the group of people we had invited over to celebrate the release with me weren't paying attention to me I slipped out the back door and into the garden, I shut the door behind me and immediately felt more like I could breath again leaving the noise behind me

I walked up to the swings and sat on one of them looking at the Night sky, I had sat here with Aryan countless times talking about some senseless things or just enjoying the silent night

Now I was sitting here on my own looking up at the stars, it was a clear night with no clouds leaving all of the stars visible

"I'm so sorry" I whispered into the quiet night "I really wish you were here Darc, you would know if this is right and you would be so proud of this album" I felt the tears stinging in my eyes as I kept my eyes on the sky "I wish you could be here Darcy, I wish you could've seen this happening. I miss you so much" I looked down at the grass beneath my feet for a bit wiping the few tears away before lifting my gaze again "why would you leave me ? I really need you. I hope you're proud of me..."

And that's when I saw a shooting star fly right through the sky, she was listening. Of course she is, she's always listening

I felt stupid for not talking to Aryan, I mean I would kill to get another minute with Darcy and here I was waisting time I could have with Aryan ? I hated myself for this, but I also really wished that this way Aryan would be happier, I was doing this for Aryan.

The sun and the stars never shine together anyways

I sat there outside for a little longer feeling sorry for my stupid self while I should be inside celebrating the huge achievement I had accomplished

"Belle ?"

"Hey" he sat down on the swing beside mine

"What are you doing out here ?"

"Just a little overwhelmed. What about you ?"

"I was looking for you"

"Oh"

"I really like the album, or what I've heard of it so far" I smiled a little looking at my feet

"Thanks"

"Yeah. Is this like a... public confirmation that you two broke up" I stayed quiet for a bit before nodding

"Yeah, I guess so" I laughed a little saying that, it was so absurd how in a couple of weeks I had managed to write and produce an entire album on a break up "you know what ?"

"Hm ?"

"I'm not sure how long it'll take for people to figure this out but the last song, stranger isn't about Aryan, it's about Val actually"

"Really ? I'll have to pay attention to that song later then"

"Yeah, I really like that song, it's like a chapter closed for me"

"That sounds refreshing, like freeing... is that a word ?" I laughed at that

"Obviously that's a word"

"I don't know it sounds weird, freeing"

"How does that sound weird ?"

"I don't know" we both sat on the swings laughing about that for a while and that did actually feel quite freeing. I missed laughing like that a lot

Authors note:
Wohohoho another chapter that I spent 3 hours on cause it took me way too long to pick out songs that fit her situation and her age and to design that stupid back cover thingy😪
Anyways if anyone's interested in that album I created a playlist of the songs, you can scan the qr-code and should if nothing goes wrong immediately get to the playlist I made 🤭🫶

Wait I also forgot to ask this : who is the guy belles talking to ? 🤨🤨