Tom's Girl

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We pull up to the hotel and I get out of the car, not saying a word. As I close the door and start walking I hear a car door open. I knew it was Tom, I knew he was going to walk me up to my room to check on me, but honestly I didn't want him to. I continued walking down the sidewalk until he caught up with me.

"I'm not leaving your side until I know you're ok." He says.

"I am. I just ran too fast and too far." I say as we walk into the hotel.

"You've been doing it all week Rylee. If you're stressed about the movie just tell me." He says as I continue walking. We turn the corner and head up the elevator.

"I'm not worried about the movie." I say, causing him to throw his head back in frustration.

"So just tell me what's making you act like this." He almost yelled. We walked down the hall to my room and he slightly grabbed at me arm.

"Tom you barely know me. For all you could know, this could be me. We just met, you don't have to act like my dad." We both stand there looking at each other for a few seconds.

"Is your roommate here?"

"Why?" I ask as I unlock the door. I walk in and turn around, trying to close the door behind me but it gets stopped by Tom's foot.

"Is your roommate here?" he asks again. I turn around to see Hannah laying on her bed with her eyes closed and head phones in.

"She's asleep." I tell him. He walks in quickly looking at Hannah who quickly sits up.

"She doesn't look asleep to me." He says. Hannah pulls out her earbuds and her jaw drops at the sight of Tom Holland standing in her hotel room.

"Why are you acting like this for real?? I thought you were all nice and genuine." I say, causing his tense face to soften up.

"I'm not trying to be rude at all, I'm just worried about you." He says in an almost baby voice.

"Why?? it was one mistake. And for the last time you barely know me!" I almost shout, immediately regretting it. He turns to Hannah, who is still speechless.

"Can I talk to you?" He asks Hannah. She immediately nods her head and they both walk out. What the hell. I flop down on my bed and burry my face in my pillows.

Tom's POV

I walked out of the room with Rylee's roommate, who was obviously shocked at what was going on. I closed the door and we walked down the hall a little just in case Rylee was listening.

"Listen, I know you don't know me that well, but you do know I was assigned to be Rylee's "training buddy" I say.

"Oh I know you more than YOU know YOU." she said.

"Ok...." I respond, a little creeped out but I still continue. "So I have been working out with Rylee everyday for the past week, and everyday she seems to push herself more and more. Today she had some sort of... breakdown? Where she couldn't breath, but all she could think about was running even more."

"That's not like her, she always knows when to stop, no matter what it is she is doing." Hannah replies.

"Right... So I just wanted to ask you to do something for me." I say.

"Anything."

"Filming starts in 2 days, and she needs to be ready. So please don't let her go to the gym, or the track, or anywhere like that. Just make her stay here for a while and get some rest." I say as she nods her head.

"I promise you, she will be ready on Monday." Hannah agrees.

"Thank you, I know how tough it is through this transition, but just help her out." I say as I give her a nice smile. She nods her head and turns back to her hotel door as I head to the elevators.

Rylee's POV

After a couple minutes my door opens back up and Hannah walks in.

"Tom Holland just fucking talked to me!" she says. "Tom Holland. The Tom Holland is worried about you! Do you even care?!" She says. I quickly sit up to look at her.

"Honestly no. He has been so nice and now all of a sudden he's acting like my dad. We just met a little over a week ago!" I say.

"Well he obviously cares about you."

"No he doesn't. He just feels like he needs to because I'm the youngest on the set. He has  been the youngest one in almost all of his movies, and now he's not. So he thinks he has to care for me. But he doesn't." I say as I get up and grab some pajamas out of my dresser. I walk right past Hannah to the bathroom and she doesn't say a thing.

Now I'm here, in the bathroom staring at myself in the mirror. Why do I have hate myself so much? I just got a big role in a movie for crying out loud. I shake away my thoughts and hop in the shower. Tom's words kept repeating in my head. "No, you're not ok." At the time I was just trying to convince them that I was fine. But I'm not, in fact I haven't eaten any food for almost a week. But that was all just because I had to lose 20 pounds for the movie. I'm still doing fine.

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I finally got out of the shower and lay in down, not saying a word to Hannah. She flipped through the channels on the tv looking for something to watch.

"So.... what are we gonna do for the next 2 days?" Hannah asks me.

"I'm going to the gym tomorrow. Probably for the full day."

"No you are not. I will lock you in this room if I have to." Hannah says.

"Why not??"

"Because, Tom told me not to let you." Hannah says. I roll my eyes and flop down on the bed.
This is so ridiculous.

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I'm just going to put chapter numbers from now on because I feel like sometimes naming the chapters sort of spoils what you're about to read.