Part 152

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By the time I put my phone away and stopped reading through the Instagram posts and TikToks it was well past midnight, the others were already asleep since filming started early but I didn't feel like sleeping, not just cause of everything I had just read about people's opinion about me but I genuine felt like I was coming down with a cold or something, my throat was hurting really bad and my nose was running annoyingly

I put some music on my headphones and turned towards the wall trying to sleep

I fell around like several hours after that getting maybe around 3 hours of sleep

When I woke up to my alarm at 5:30 am I was freezing, I was already wearing long sweatpants and a hoodie since I was pretty cold 🥶 yesterday already but even with my blanket on top I was still freezing

I thought about just getting up and not messing the filming schedule up now but just the thought about changing my clothes exhausted me already

"Belle are you ready ?" Dior turned to look at me, I was sitting on my bed cuddled into my blanket looking around the room, she must've noticed something cause her facial expression changed immediately "I told you to put a sweater on the other day but no you wanted to feel the rain on your arms" she sighed walking over and sitting down besides me, she placed a hand on my forehead scrunching her face up

"It's okay I can still go-"

"You're not going anywhere but back to sleep, you have a terrible fever Belle you're burning up"

"Do you have any medicine ?" Leah who was also just looking at me asked

"No, I forgot. Mom said she'd bring me some when she comes by"

"I'll ask Walker if he brought something, you're probably using the same thing" she left the room and I just laid back down waiting for her to come back

She walked back into our room followed by Walker just a minute later

"What did you do now ?"

"She has a fever"

"It's August how do you even get a fever ?"

"Do you have medicine or not ?" He gave me the small packet and watched me take the medicine shaking his head

"Dumbass.  Charlie and Aryan are downstairs already if you want to go"

"Yeah we'll be downstairs" Dior looked at me another time before going to grab her bag

"I'll call you once in a while to check up on you" Leah called out before they closed the door

"Are you alright ?" I looked at Walker with a slight frown

"No"

"Do you want me to stay here ?"

"No it's fine"

"Really ? I can stay if you want"

"I'm fine Walker I'm just gonna sleep anyways"he  just eyed me for a second

"Okay, text me if you need anything"

"I will, have fun"

I did sleep for around 3 hours after they left, waking up at about 9am, I grabbed my phone and blinked a few times at the brightness

"Good morning sunshine" I flinched at the voice, not expecting anyone to be here, I let my eyes wander through the room

"What are you doing here?"

"I couldn't leave you here alone the entire day could I ?" He walked up to me and sat on my bed running a hand over my shoulder "how are you feeling"

"Better than in the morning I guess"

"That's good"

"I feel disgusting though and I look disgusting too"

"You look cute"

"I don't"

"Yeah you do"

"No"

"You always look cute" I rolled my eyes at him with a tiny smile playing on my lips

"I need to take a shower or I will die right here"

"Do you want to take one now ? I don't want you to like collapse in the shower or something"

"I'm okay Aryan" I smiled slowly moving my legs to the side of my bed, Aryan stood up and offered his hands to help me up "dude I'm not dying I have a slight fever"

"Slight ? Dior said you were burning"

"She's exaggerating, you know Dior" I grabbed a few of my clothes and went into the bathroom

I took a quick shower and wrapped a towel around my body, sitting on the side of the bathtub to catch my breath for a second before getting up and dressed

"Aryan ?" I looked around the room but couldn't find him anywhere so I just sat on my bed and texted him with no reply

He came back into the room a few minutes later with a tray in his hands

"Where were you ?"

"I got you some chicken soup, it's great when you're sick"

"I'm not hungry" he sat the tray down on my bedside table and sat down next to me on my bed

"I know, but you have to eat something love" he brushed a piece of hair behind my ear "just eat half of it okay ? It'll make you feel better"

"Okay" I slowly sipped the soup while he just told me some random stories to get me distracted "maybe you should keep a little distance from me, might be contagious"

"I don't care"

"I don't want you to get sick"

"And I want to stay here with you" I put the empty bowl aside when I was done and cuddled up to Aryan feeling his arms around me, he placed a kiss on my forehead and played with my hair as we laid there in silence for a bit "I love your curly hair" he whispered quietly while playing with a strand "you should keep it natural more often"

"I will"

"Belle ?"

"Yeah"

"Tell me what's bothering you"



Authors note:
WOHOHO I got another chapter done 🥳🥳
Some much needed Claryan quality time fr cause I was starting to feel the withdrawal slowly 😪
But wellll couldn't be entirely sweet now could it ? What's bothering our baby Belle ?

Lyrics of the day:
When the first stone's thrown there's screaming
In the streets there's a raging riot
When it's 'burn the bitch', they're shrieking
When the truth comes out it's quiet

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