#this is queue btw

Dowtown was a rare occasion on set, but an occuasion that was most welcome to everyone.

Everyone but Simon.

Simon was always working and never taking any breaks in between, he needed to be. He'd always tried to make sure every take every scene he was in was perfect, otherwise he would make the crew work hours on end to get the perfect shot much to the crew's dismay.

However the set and the crew were having issues with the sound stage so everyone including Simon had to wait until it got fixed.

Simon was sitting on one of the chairs located outside the sound stage both bored and frustrated with the crew wondering how long it was going to take to get one simple sound problem fixed.

He felt his left arm twitch violently, now wishing he had more stabilizer.

The thought however was pushed into the back of his mind when Maggie, his assistant walked over towards him.

"Sir."

"Yes Maggie" Simon said turning his head slightly behind him.

Maggie looked down shaking her head before wearily asking "Can we talk about what happened last night?" She paused for a moment, then added "When I came to check up on you and-"

Simon, looking now nervous and darting his eyes in each direction hoping no one was listening interrupted her and quickly answered "I-It's fine Maggie don't worry, I'm fine."

Last night had flashed into his mind as quick as a flash bang, the night when his teeth started falling out because of the amount of stabilizer he injected into himself in a attempt to keep himself stable for tomorrow.

He thought he locked the door beforehand, until Maggie open the door and let out a scream.

Maggie looked up at him again, still looking tired but annoyed with him "No, no I don't think everything's fine."

"Maggie I really don't wanna talk about this right now, especially when there's a bunch of people around." Simon whispered and discreetly pointed at everyone else on set.

Maggie had met his whisper with her own and said "You say that but…" She turns her head around making sure no one else was listening either before adding "I'm worried that you're abusing the stabilizer."

Simon really wanted to argue, but then he let out a huge cough and quickly took out a handkerchief to cough into it.

When he was done, he pulled it away from him as Maggie looked down at it pensive as the handkerchief had blood on it.

"Maggie…"

"You're abusing it and you know it."

"No I'm not."

"Simon-"

Simon gets up from the chair, turning towards her angrily and said "Maggie your job is to cater to my needs and you know what I need? You to drop this."

She just stared at him, appalled by what he said and decided to walk away.

Simon felt awful the second that came out of his mouth "Wait Maggie I didn't mean-"

"Bastard's late again." Aria thought as she looked out into the city in frustration.

It had been a habit for Simon, always on time when he needs to be on set yet never seems to be on time for everything else in his life. Aria had become used to this unfortunately, yet that doesn't make her any less upset.

"Should've never agreed to this." She thought staring down to the dress she had on making sure there wasn't any stains or anything on like that on it. She was wearing a light blue short dress with a chest opening on top while wearing matching gloves the same color.

It was one of her favorite dresses, yet she thought she shouldn't had brought it out for this.

She looked out into the city once again, the stars in the sky shine bright throughout while the city streets were still bustling with people and cars even though night had come. She tried to see if one of the cars was Simon speeding into her apartment parking but to no avail.

She was wishing at this point she was back in the studio working on her new album.

She was reaching for her phone to call off the date before she heard a loud banging on the door to her apartment, scaring her until she realized who that must be since he never had the nerve to use her doorbell.

She walked towards the door, unlocked and opened it to see Simon wearing a orange dress shirt with a black blazer with matching black pants, yet his skin looked as pale as her even though he wasn't an lab grown person like she was.

The grey veins were also showing near his chest way more than usual.

"You know you're late again" She playfully teased trying to hide her frustration with him.

"Something came up." His voice was more coarse than usual as well.

"What?"

"Don't worry about it."

She knows that line too well, when he says it it usually means something happened with his body. Aria wanted to say something but she found it much easier to not pester him about it unless it was a private conversation.

"So are you taking me out to this new high class restaurant or are you just gonna keep staring at me?"

Simon seem to be in some sort of deep thinking before Aria asked him that question, he shook his head and asked back "I thought you didn't really need to eat?"

"I like the flavors." Aria chuckled turning back into the apartment to get her purse before going out.

Simon's left arm started to violently twitched suddenly until he quickly grabs his arm with the other to stabilized it.

Aria found herself looking at him concerned. "Hey you sure you wanna go out?"

"Of course."

He gave her a slight smile, one that looked more pained than genuine.

I put a whole timeline for her so I hope it's enough lol

"Do you think I'm doing a great job as of late?" That question from Aria took Eve by surprise. When it came to her daughter, Aria was always sure that she was doing everything perfectly and if anyone said otherwise she usually didn't listen, so this was new.

"Whatever do you mean honey?" Eve questioned.

"I mean, it feels like I'm doing everything right. But as of late it also feels like there's I don't know… a weight in my body?" Aria sounded dejected as she said this to her mother, her face appeared woeful, like how someone would look when given terrible news. "It feels like this weight within me is dragging me into an ocean of misery, and I'm unable to get out."

Eve looked at her perplexed but also with a hint of indifference "Are you feeling alright? Is your arm acting up again?"

Aria glanced at her mother "No my arm is feeling alright, only twitched once today funny enough" she said almost chuckling, despite her feelings.

"Then what exactly is wrong?" Eve uttered, almost annoyed

"I don't know what's wrong with me mum, other than I just feel down when I've been…alone as of late." Aria said.

"Loneliness is it?" Eve's hint of indifference to the situation seemed to transformed into being bothered by the whole conversation "Why would ever be lonely Aria? You have people who can remedy that."

"But they're not my friends, they're my agents and I doubt they have any emotional connection to me." Aria almost sounded irritated through the force laugh she was going for, but Eve didn't seem to notice as she stared into her coffee cup. The look on Eve's face could only be described as fed up with the whole conversation.

Aria has been given everything by her mother, ranging from the most expensive toys when she was a little girl to the most expensive clothes most poor people in Eve's eyes, could even dream of getting. Her whole career's has given her all the fans in the world who love her. So how could she tell her it's not enough?

"Is that not enough for you honey?" There's a note of irritation in the brunette's words now. "I'm sorry I can't see why that's not enough."

The red haired young lady glance at once more, but this time with a troubled expression gleaming from her ruby red eyes "Didn't you have friends when you were younger mum? Wasn't there people who you could say you had a connection with?" Those words from her daughter made Eve's body sting.

Eve couldn't remember the last time she really had a real human connection with someone other than Aria, the 70s tended to be a blur to her but only because she would usually shut those memories away as she views them as the worst years of her life now. The people she had surrounded herself with afterwards wouldn't be anything to her but yes men, agreeing with everything she said and did. She didn't need to be attached to anyone, it was more of a nuisance to her if anything.

Aria had it better than her, she's hasn't faded into obscurity and thrown out like an broken record like she was. So why is she upset? Eve just couldn't understand it, so much so that her irritation started to turn into anger with the tiniest hints of panic setting in.