#thread:aria

exhaustion was taking over and no matter what she did, she couldn’t seem to calm her daughter down and she knew it had something to do with the loud music being played next door. she wasn’t the type to normally let it bother but she couldn’t take it anymore. sliding on her slipped, aria made her way out of her apartment with her baby in her arms and knocked until she heard the instrument behind the door stop, which thankfully soothed the four month old in her arms. her eyes met the others as she swung open the door and she knew she looked like a disaster. “uh, hi. look, it’s late. my daughter’s trying to sleep and i can’t get any sleep unless she sleeps so do you think, i don’t know, you could give it a rest tonight?”

continued from here for @tenderstars

this is never really how aria assumed her life would go. of course, there was no way to really know but the last thing she expected was to be sitting across from a man she once loved so much, and probably still did, with divorce papers sitting in between the two of them. on top of that, she’d found out she was pregnant and she’d been trying to figure out for days how she was supposed to tell him or if she should tell him at all since the two of them were separating after all and the last thing she wanted was for him to only stay for the baby in her stomach. still, she couldn’t bring herself to hide it from him. “i have to tell you something...”

aria was well over getting revenge. she’d done it, it didn’t make her feel any better, and now she had feelings for noah. she felt like an idiot for thinking that this was a good idea but a part of her wanted to be honest with him. would he hate her? would he understand? would he never speak to her again? a thousand possibilities ran through her brain and she had no idea what to do. it was clear that she wasn’t focused on their conversation that they were currently having. she was zoned out and trying to decided the best thing to do when he snapped her out of her trance, “what? sorry. i just...got distracted.”

aria hadn’t been back to her hometown for a while, not since she graduated high school but now, she was back after getting a job offer - one she couldn’t turn down. she was making her way through the party, making sure it was going alright when she stumbled right into someone. “excuse me, i’m sor-” she stopped, smoothing over her dress as her eyes met the others. she knew who it was and it was one of the last people she expected to see but either way, she was trying not to let him know that what happened back in high school between the two of them still bothered her. that was over ten years ago and so, she knew it didn’t matter but somehow the embarrassment she felt back then almost crawled back up. “sorry.” she finally apologized.