A Stroll in the Park (Tom Hiddleston X Fem Reader)

The Waitress

Barely out of the park with your phone still in your hand you start to scroll through your contacts to call Iris. You come across the contact name "Pumba" and click, bouncing as you walk. In another area of London, Iris was being disturbed in her sleep as her phone lights up with the name "Timon" projected across it.

The phone rings one or two more times than usual but you give Iris time to wake up. 3...4...5 rings and still no answer. Just as you're about to give up the line picks up but with complete silence on the other end. After a few moments of nothing there a scratchy grunt at the other end of the call signals Iris' consciousness.

"Iris? I know it's early but I have news. I can call back though if you want." As much as you really, really, really want to tell her what happened you'd prefer if she didn't fall asleep half ways through.

"No, no it's fine. What's up?" she replies with a voice that could easily be likened to sandpaper.

"Oh well only if you're sure, I mean it's not even that important it's just that Tom kissed me just now" you say trying to act nonchalant but fail as the sentence ends, your pitch getting higher and higher as you get excited all over again. There's a slight beat of quiet again before Iris starts to shout down the phone, her voice breaking at every second syllable with the sudden jump from not speaking to screaming.

"OH MY GOD ARE YOU FOR REAL? I TOLD YOU! I SO TOLD YO- I HAVE TO BE YOUR MAID OF HONOUR!" Iris shouts, probably breaking her vocal chords in the process. She appears to be more excited than you are which was something you didn't think possible till she started. While you two are freaking out and you're filling her in with every single detail you hear shuffling in the background on Iris' side of the call.

"And then, Oh my God, AND THEN- wait hold on what was that?" you ask, the area that Iris stayed in wasn't exactly dodgy, but it was still London so you could never be sure.

"Oh, that was, it was nothing, just a bird flying into the window so you were saying?"

"No I definitely heard something and it wasn't a bird, who even thinks of that as an excuse?"

"It's nothing really nothing, don't worry about it just carry on with what you were saying!"

You go to press on further, Iris never hides anything from you so what the hell was this? Why was she lying? But before you can say anything there was another, new voice that began speaking with the same sleepy tone that Iris had just a few second ago.

"'Nothing'? How rude, that wasn't the name you were calling me last night-"

"IRIS OH MY GOD WHO IS THAT? WHO ARE YOU? CAN I SING AT YOUR WEDDING??"

"ALRIGHT STOP" Iris screams with the sheer panic she was feeling coming through evidently in her voice as you carry on in fits of giggles with Loki looking up at you with slight concern at how frantic you were acting.

There's a brief, muffled conversation on the other side of the phone as you wait rather impatiently for her to come back. The call becomes clearer, letting you know she'd taken her phone away from her hand or sleeve so you wait for her to explain.

"The waitress..." Iris admits. You can't see her, but you don't need to to know that she has a sheepish smile and bright red cheeks right now.

"Ah so you two are getting kinda serious then?"

"I mean, we're both really happy with where we are right now, but it's still early days so I don't want to jinx anything yet" she admits, she sounds slightly embarrassed but happy. Iris had never been good at having other people knowing a lot about her personal life, her sex life to be precise.