Tom's Girl

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"So, what makes you want to go to the store so suddenly?" Sam asks.

"Just want to get out of the house for a few." I respond.

"You mean get away from the boys?" He asks. I give him a funny smile as I turn to the window. "Can I ask you a question? And you answer me honestly?" He asks.

"mhm."

"Do you... like Tom?" He asks me.

"I don't know... Honestly, I kinda like what we have going on. But I mean, he's just so nice and gentle, and... I don't know."

"It's fine if you do, I just wanted to know." he says. "You guys are cute together." We sit in silence for a few seconds but I can tell something is bothering him.

"My brothers right though... He's too old for me. It's never going to happen." I say. We drive the rest of the way to the store, not talking much. Once we finally get there we head in and grab a cart. We walk through the store, grabbing snacks and some groceries. We walk down the liquor isle and Sam grabs 4 cases of beer.

"That's a lot of beer." I say

"Well 3 per person isn't enough, and 4 per person with 2 extra bottles isn't going to work. So 6 per person, drink however much we want, it's for the whole weekend though. For the boys at least." Sam explains.

"Ok...."

"So what do you and Hannah like?" He asks me.

"Oh I don't drink."

"Like at all?"

"Nope... I've never drunk before." I say.

"And Hannah?"

"She does, sometimes."

"So what does she like?" he asks.

"We're underage Sam."

"Well yea, but you got older people around to keep you in line." He says.

"Strawberry Malibu, that's her favorite." I say. He looks around for a few seconds and then grabs a case.

"So what do you want to drink?" He asks me.

"Soda will be fine." I say. We head down to the drink isle isle and grab I grab a couple 2 liters and we head back home. We grab the bags and head in, unpacking some stuff in the kitchen.

"How much did you get?" Harrison questions from the Living room.

"4 cases." Sam replies.

"That's my man!" He shouts.

"We also got you some Malibu Hannah." Sam says.

"Thank youuu." Hannah says. Sam puts everything in the fridge and we head over to the Living room.

"So Tom agreed to a game night and then movie marathons." Harrison says. "You in Rylee?"

"Yea, whatever you guys want." I say as I sit down next to Tom.

"No, not whatever we want. Is that what you want to do?" Tom asks me.

"Yea, sounds fun." I say.

"Come here." Tom says as he pulls me off the couch, walking upstairs. He leads me into his room and he walks over to his dresser. "What's going on?" He asks as I sit on the edge of his bed.

"It's just Noah... Hannah's right, that was not like him at all." I explain. Tom walks into his closet with a pair of shorts and a hoodie.

"Honestly, I wouldn't blame him. If he does have something going on with this Chloe girl... and he flies to New York to find out his little sister is possibly getting into a situation he doesn't like..." he trails off.

"But he shouldn't have acted like that. It honestly hurts me to see him acting like that... Cause he doesn't yell at me, ever. He's obviously hurting more than I can see, and him coming here and acting like that is his way of telling me he needs me." I say. Tom opens the closet doors and walks out, changed into the shorts and hoodie.

"Well than maybe you should talk to him." Tom says.

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We all hung out for the rest of the day until it started getting dark out, the boys said game night is more fun once everyone's already had a few drinks. Although I wasn't going to drink anyway. Sam grabs a beer for everyone and a can for Hannah and walks into the Livingroom.

"Let's get this night started!" Sam says as he hands out some drinks. I slide down off the couch, sitting on the ground while everyone else is on the couch.

"You're not drinking Rylee?" Harry asks.

"Of course she's not. She's underage." Tom says.

"So is Hannah, do you care about her?" Harrison asks. Tom ignores the question and takes a long drink of his beer.

"Ouchh." Hannah says. "My all time celebrity crush likes my best friend more than me." Hannah says. Tom's eyes quickly widen at Hannah's comment and the rest of the room laughs.

"Wait really?" Harrison says. "He is your celebrity crush??"

"Well yea. I mean look at him, he's the hottest man in New York." Hannah says.

"Oh yea, she's watched all your movies and interviews." I chuckle.

"Well at least I have. The only marvel movie you've ever seen is Spider-Man, and that's because I made you." Hannah blurts out.

"Ohhhh." Everyone laughs.

"Are you serious??" Tom jokingly questions.

"Maybe..." I say.

"No way. This friendship is over." Tom says as he gets up and walks away.

"Oh come onnnn." I say. Tom walks back over laughing and lifts me off the ground, pulling me onto the couch next to him.

"I'm just kidding luv. I will never say those words with a straight face." Tom reassures.

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The night goes by and Tom drank about 4 beers and everyone else drank around 5. We played a couple board games and a short game of truth or dare, but nothing eventful really happened. We had already watched a movie and we were half way through the second one when my eyelids started to get very heavy. I was dying to close them but I wanted to keep watching the movie. I didn't really want to get too close to Tom tonight but as soon as everyone started drinking he pulled me to his lap. So now it is around 10pm and everyone was pretty much wide awake except me and Tom, which made since because of our filming hours. I thought I would be able to stay awake all night on my days off, but my sleep schedule is so stuck in place that I couldn't.

Tom was slowly rubbing up and down my arm, which was really soothing, but I could tell he was getting close to falling asleep.

I turn on my side a little bit to get comfortable and Tom wraps his arm around me, adjusting the blanket. He slides his arm back up, curling some of my hair behind my ear as he gently kisses the tip of my ear.

"Goodnight darling." He whispers, wrapping his arm back around my waist as he pulls me closer to him.

"Loversss." I hear Harrison mock. I close my eyes, slowly falling asleep.