Business - A Tommyinnit Story [Temporary Hiatus]

Chapter 8

(Thompson = Tommy's Father, Clarissa = Tommy's Mother.      Sebastian = Vanessa's Father, Melissa = Vanessa's Mother.)

Narrator POV

“Wow.” said Vanessa. “Did you all set this up?” asked Tommy astonished as to what he was seeing. “Yeah.” said Sebastian. “It took quite a while to do it manually, but I guess it payed of.” said Clarissa. “This is amazing. It's just like the old days.” said Vanessa. “Yes, we should come here to spend some family time after the party.” said Thompson. “Yes, we should.” said Tommy. “Also we invited some people over to the party.” said Melissa. “Really, who?” asked Vanessa. “Well for Vanessa we brought Sandrew Von Harley, Quinn Johnson and Mark Brown.” said Sebastian. “Really?!!” said Vanessa exited. “Wait, aren't those like your idols?” asked Tommy surprised. “Yeah!,” said Vanessa, “Oh I can't believe this! This is truly the best present.” said Vanessa. “And for Tommy actually, we brought a bit more, we actually brought James Diamond, um the one called Pew Die Pie or Felix, Jimmy or Mr Beast, Vikkstar, DanTDM and Carlos Van Heusen.” said Thompson. “Wait, are you serious?” asked Tommy. “Of course we are Tommy.” said Clarissa. “Wait ok, so Vikk, Felix and Jimmy are from the YouTube channels right? But James Diamonds and Carlos Van Heusen, how'd you get them??” asked Vanessa. “Just like how we got Sandrew, Quinn and Mark. We are old friends.” said Thompson. “Thats- Oh- wow- just wow.” said Tommy. “They would be in the party right now, you should go there. We'll come there shortly.” said Sebastian. “Ok, thanks mum, dad.” said Vanessa, and she grabbed Tommy's arm and dragged him back to the party. They both separated and went to talk to their friends. “Hey, did you hear my parents called Felix, Jimmy and Vikk.” said Tommy to the others who were talking in a big group. “Wait really? Are they here?” asked Tubbo. “They said they were here at the party, so they must be.” said Tommy. “Happy Birthday Thomas.” said someone from behind them and Tommy waved the others bye and he went to the other group to talk. “Quite a gentleman isn't he?” said Felix to the others who were talking to him. Felix, Jimmy and Vik and Dan were nearby the group and were observing Tommy. “Hello gentlemen.” said someone from behind them. They turned back to see who it was and it was Vanessa Blackwood. “Aren't you Vanessa Blackwood?” asked Jimmy. “Ah, yes well I am. I'm also Tommy's best friend.” said Vanessa. “Wait you're Vanessa Blackwood, how do you know Tommy?” asked Vikk. “Wow, he really wasn't lying.” said Vanessa smiling and taking a sip of her wine. “About what?” asked Felix, curious to what Tommy had said about him. “Well he did tell me that you guys know next to nothing about him.” said Vanessa, completely nonchalant. “Wait, really? But we do know many things about him.” said Jimmy. “Right, you didn't really know about his mental health issues, his family who owns Simons Diamonds, him being the heir to the billion dollar business, and many more things, right?” said Vanessa. “Also don't try and act all innocent with me, I know Tommy better than anyone and even if we weren't in touch for the past 2 years, I know every single aspect of his life for the past 2 years. I mean you all really don't get how much he admires you, especially you Vikkstar or Vikram, anyways you really don't know anything about him, so don't act like you do.” she said. “Mental Health Issues?” asked Vik. “Right, I said way too much again, why can't I just keep my mouth shut, ugh. We'll anyways bye, have a great time at the party.” she waved and then went of. “Ok, that was weird.” said Dan. “Don't worry about her, I'll have a talk with her soon.” said someone yet again from behind them. They turned around to see who it was and it was Tommy. “Hello gentlemen, are you enjoying the party?” asked Tommy. “Ah, Tommy, yes we are. Also happy birthday Tom.” said Dan. “Thank you.” he said smiling. “Wine?” asked Vik. “Yeah, I'm of age you know.” said Tommy. “Right, right.” said Jimmy, he drank a sip of his wine. “So, your friend there seems quite overprotective.” said Dan. “Yeah, she is just a bit like that after something happened.” he said. “Right.” said Jimmy. “Well, I hope you enjoy and now I need to go talk to other people.” he said while heading away from the group. “He is nice isn't he?” said Dan. “Yeah, quite a gentleman.” said Vik. “Ah! And there are the others.” said Jimmy, pointing at the other familiar people who were in a group, talking or maybe discussing something. “Should we go there?”asked Dan. “I mean I guess we should, since they are the only people who we know here.” said Vik. “Right, then let's go.” said Felix. The group of four went to the much bigger group and started talking. “...well so would you want to really do that? I mean the stream went well, plus the charity and everything.” said Wilbur to the others. “Are we interrupting something?” said Felix smiling, and going to the the side of Philza. “Oh no, no. We were just debating about the charity streams and everything.” said Wilbur. “Right, also have you seen Tommy's friend Vanessa?” asked Vik. “Ah, yes we did. She dropped by like a week ago for a meeting or something, she has been Tommy's friend since they were like 3 or 4 I think.” said Tubbo, his tone had nothing but venom and jealousy in his voice. “Right, so how long are you planning on staying here?” Dan asked while looking at the others. “A month or so I guess, it's not much of a hassle you know since the house if so big.” said Techno. “Oh, well his parents actually told us to stay here for like a month or something.” said Jimmy while taking a sip of his wine. “Well that's great! We can all be together I guess.” said Charlie. “Yeah! That would be great.” said Felix. “You know I just noticed, Tommy and Vanessa really look quite anxious.” said George. “I'm sure it's nothing George.” said Nick. “Yeah, you're just overthinking it Gogy.” said Tubbo. “Maybe, but I really get a felling that something's not right.” said George. “Well we'll know if something's wrong.” said Dream, smiling. “Right, also Vanessa said something about mental health issues with Tommy, and then she said something about not keeping her mouth shut. Quite weird right?” said Vik. At this point all of the dream smp members' faces dropped, the once smiling faces were now one's of sorrow or worry. “Right, should we?” asked Will. Dream nodded and Wilbur started, “Right, we overheard Tommy talking to his friend Vanessa, about his depression, anxiety and neglect. Also something about someone betraying him. We also did see him cut...like self harm.” said Will, he stared down at the floor while wiping his teary eyes. The other four were shocked but regained their composure and they wiped Thier teary eyes, to think of such a young person going through something was quite saddening. Little did they know that Tommy was looking over at them, he couldn't hear them but he could see the sorrow in their eyes, so he automatically guessed that they were angry or sad about something that he did. This worsened the already anxious Tommy's condition, he excused himself from the party and went to his room inside the mansion. He rummaged through the drawers and found a white box labelled Happiness he smiled at the label and sat down on his bed with the box in front of him. He opened up the box and took out a razor. He rolled his sleeves of the suit up revealing his bandages which were stained blood red. He unwrapped the bandages, revealing his many scars some of which had healed while some of them were still fresh. There were more scars than he could count but he didn't really care about that. He took the razor and started cutting his arms, some of his scars reopened while the little skin which was untouched had now been covered in scars and blood. Unlike feeling pain and sadness over the situation Tommy was happy, this helped him drown out his sorrows in pain, physical pain. He placed the razor back down in the box and took out a roll of bandages which was placed beside the razors. He had realised that it would probably be a hassle to hide the cuts. He went to the bathroom and ran the tap, he rinsed his bleeding arms and he wrapped the bandages around his arms again, he rolled down his sleeves and placing the bandages back in the box, he placed the box back in the cabinet and headed down to grab a glass of water, he quickly drank it and went back to the party.

He had been back to his past habits yet again.