House of memories

Chapter 12

The sound of a sliding glass door is heard and Tommy walks out and shuts the door behind him, before coming down and sitting next to me on the hammock.

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"Hey tommy." I say as he sits

"Helooo." He says while getting a comfy position.

We sit in a comfortable silence not knowing what to say.

"You planning any streams for while we're here?" I ask Tommy looking down and picking at my fingernails.

"Yeah I thought we could do a just talking stream. Maybe some karaoke?" He says looking up at me.

"Yeah that'd be so fun!!" I say bouncing around on the hammock.

There's another comfortable silence before Tommy sighs and looks at me.

"I know why you wanted to talk." He says facing me. I look up at him and raise an eyebrow. "Do you not remember?"

"Oh that's right. Yeah, I just want to make sure you're ok." I say with a smile. He softly smiles and looks out over the balcony.

"Yeah well. I guess I've just felt a little lonely. I don't live near anyone and well, I don't know heh." He chuckled nervously while scratching the back of his neck.

"It's ok. I'm here for you. I want you to know that." He smiled and gets up off the hammock.

"Where you going Tommy?"

"Back inside, I'm tired." And with that he walks inside, not saying another word.

Well that went well.

I sigh and walk back into my room. Niki sits on the bed on her phone and looks up when I walk in.

"Saturn, is everything ok?" She gets up off the bed and walks over to me and puts her hands on my shoulder.

"Yeah, no, I don't know. Tommys just being so... I'm worried about him." Niki pulls me over to the bed and we sit down.

"Look, I think we're all a bit worried about Tommy. He really hasn't been himself and we've all noticed, not just you."

"But When did he start acting like this?" I ask lying down on the bed.

"Well I think about 2 or 3 weeks ago. But there was never a distinct point." She said lying down next me.

We sit in a silence for a moment before I sit up on my elbow facing niki.

"We've just been... distant. And- I- I don't know why." A single tear fell from my cheek. I wipe it away quickly hoping niki doesn't see.

"Tommy is going through something and we all see it. And I think he needs space. It'll hurt to give him that space but I really think he needs it." She says looking at the roof.

I jump up off the bed and walk over to my suitcase. I grab my hoodie out and through it over my pjs.

"Where you going?" Niki asks me.