invisible string ─ s. rogers

interview

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
INTERVIEW

The Archer
Taylor Swift

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Maybe it was a good thing that he couldn't manage to book tickets to Daisy's Seth Meyers interview, Steve thought to himself.

He was sitting in front of his computer screen and waiting for his girlfriend's portion to go live. All day he had been constantly thinking about what he would do. Steve knew that he needed to break up with Daisy, he couldn't let her be hurt even more if he ever found his soulmate, but he just didn't know when.

Steve was madly in love with Daisy, but he knew that if he kept the secret of him wishing to meet his soulmate from her, she'd fall out of love with him.

He also knew that Daisy had been suspicious of him for the past month. Steve had been acting weirdly, and his girlfriend was starting to catch onto his weird moods and glances.

Seth Meyers finally introduced Daisy Stone onto the stage, and she sat down. Steve had helped pick out her outfit, even though he didn't have any fashion sense regarding women whatsoever. Even though Steve was no help, Daisy looked breathtaking as usual.

"Welcome to the show!" The host exclaimed, taking his spot at his desk. Daisy and Seth shook hands before she sat down, crossing her legs over and folding her hands in her lap.

"Thanks! It's an honour to be here." She spoke, smiling widely.

"So, you've risen up the charts quite quickly, am I right?" Daisy nodded, placing her hand beneath her chin and resting her head on her arm. "Do we have anything to look forward to in the near future?"

The woman smiled, sending an arrow through Steve's heart as he gazed at the laptop screen. "Well, I just released a song two weeks ago, but a few days ago I was lucky enough to get offered a record deal!"

"Wow!" Seth clapped, leading the small audience to clap as well. "Did you take it?"

"Let's just say that there'll be an album coming in the near future, and hopefully there'll be many more to come after that." She smiled, winking a bit at the camera.

Steve felt cheesy butterflies erupt in his chest, like the kind you get on your highschool first date. But he tried to push them down into the pits of his stomach. He wanted to avoid every single lovey-dovey feeling that he could until he found his soulmate.

At the moment, he felt as if he had two soulmates.

The one he was meant to be with, and the one he wanted to be with.

Daisy.

Her voice was like a melody in Steve's ears as she spoke about her work enthusiastically. "I've actually been writing songs for a very long time, most of my songs that I've recently released have ties to my old work as a teenager." She explained. "Whether it be lyrics, melody, or beat, they always have that sense of nostalgia for me."

The interviewer nodded, straightening up his papers and smiling at Daisy. "May we talk about your newest song, Gorgeous, for a moment?" Seth asked, earning a nod from the singer. "The lyrics have gotten amazing reviews from critics. The melody, the beat, it's one of the greatest songs that have come out this year! It rose so incredibly fast up the charts, and everyone is begging to know who this song is about."

Daisy immediately turned red and began nervously laughing. They were open about their relationship, they weren't scared of people finding out, but Steve was worried. He was going to doom their relationship in a few weeks, and her fans and his fans would be devastated if they clung onto the couple too much.

"Well, I guess if you have to know." She smirked, the crowd yelling and clapping, absolutely dying to know who the hit song was about. "Gorgeous is about my boyfriend."

Seth hid his face in his papers, obviously expecting more of an answer. "Can we have a name for this mysterious man?"

Daisy feigned a thinking look, shaking her head as she gave a simple answer. "I'm sorry, but no." She laughed and covered her mouth with her hand, the sleeve of her gold outfit covering up her nose as well.

"Okay, well it's going to be a mystery for now, folks." The interviewer dejectedly sighed, switching up his papers and reading from his notes. "On a totally different note, what can we expect from your upcoming projects?"

"Well, for starters, in about a month's time, I have my first ever solo concert playing." The crowd cheered and clapped, excited for the performance. "But, I don't have enough songs published to be able to play for that long, so, I'm going to be releasing three singles from the album before the concert happens."

Seth nodded, happy that he was getting some content, even if it wasn't about Daisy's love life. "What kind of album do you think you're going to go for?"

"I'm really hoping to do a very soft and kind of forest-y album if you get what I mean." She revealed, twiddling her thumbs. "Something that you can play on vinyl and run through an overgrown, abandoned castle with your girlfriend, kind of thing."

"Speaking of girlfriends..." Seth trailed off, leaning towards the microphone a little bit. "Some sources have come out and spoken about your sexuality to us. Now, if you don't want to reveal anything about it, don't feel pressured to. We don't do that kinds of stuff here." He explained, trying to make Daisy feel as comfortable with the topic as she could.

"No, I'm fine talking about my sexuality, but I'd like to wait to openly discuss it." She spoke, picking at her nails a bit out of nervousness. Seth nodded in understanding, he was a good talk show host, and he knew when he needed to stop. "I don't want my entire career to be possibly jeopardize based on if I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community, so I'm going to stay quiet for a bit longer about it."

The crowd clapped in understanding and let the interview continue with fluidness, the conversation bounced back and forth extremely well.

Steve lovingly gazed into the computer screen, wishing that he could simply snap and make the everlasting feeling of wanting to meet his soulmate go away.

Even if Daisy would turn out to be his soulmate in the end, how would she ever forgive him? Steve would simply have to live in loneliness forever because of his mistakes.

Besides, the chances that she was his soulmate was like one in one hundred seventy-seven million.

"Let's get real for a moment, shall we?" Seth proposed, linking his hands together. Daisy nodded, smiling and letting her ponytail fall down to her shoulder for a moment. "Who is going to be inspiring you to write this next album?"

"I really want to make this album out of different stories. I usually write songs about my experiences and what I've gone through, but with this I want to just tie a story together and make something that people will remember as a story-telling album."

Steve always admired Daisy's mind. She could make anything up in a second, and it was something he loved about her. The next album that she made would be astounding, and he knew it. But he only wished that he would be able to write it with her and be there for the process. Just to try and find out how her mind worked.

She could piece together the smallest of clues and make it into a complex of a story that could be published and sold a million times. He always loved to sit and listen to her theorize about how a simple number decided the fate of her favourite movie franchise. It was enchanting to hear her voice go on and on about something Steve barely understood.

Seeing Daisy so enthusiastic everyday was a blessing, and he was going to be incredibly regretful the day he didn't get to see it. And for a split second, as Daisy stepped off the stage and disappeared off of the screen, Steve thought he saw his soulmate string lead straight into his laptop.

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Dark side, I search for your dark side. But what if I'm all right, right, right, right here?