New Friends

Chapter Eight

Tom's POV

I gently touched her hands as I slid mine into hers. Her hands were small compared to mine yet big enough to fill my palms. She was cold, I was warm, as if our hands were made for one another. I looked straight into her eyes as she finally lifted her head up and answered me. "Yes Tom?" She asked with wondering eyes. It was almost as if she was looking for the answer inside my brain cause of the strong eye contact we were having. "Don't worry about a thing. I am somewhat responsible for this so I'll make sure that when your friends aren't here, I am. So that you will be able to rest and recover faster, if that's ok with you?." As we held eye contact I gave her a slight smile hoping she wouldn't refuse my offer. She smiled back at me and slipped her hands out of mine after giving them a tight squeeze. "That's very kind of you Tom, but you don't have to do that. You have a job and who knows how many days that could be that my friends aren't here cause they also have jobs." She looked sad again. I couldn't tell exactly why. Whether or not she actually wanted me to help her and she was just saying what she did or if she didn't need me! "Are you sure cause I'm taking a little break from work right now so it's not like I have much going on for another two weeks!" I questioned her with puppy dog eyes. She smiled again but this time it truly seemed happy. "Well alright then, if you're not busy on whatever days I'm by myself then I would love to have your company!"

Zara's POV

Y/n and Tom were literally staring at each other for almost three minutes and it was super uncomfy, for me that is. He was being so sweet with her and she was being so stubbornly independent. Finally she agreed to have him help her when me and Ella couldn't. They finally broke eye contact and y/n was looking at me now waiting for me to say something. "Oh.. yeah, if you could help her out and make sure she doesn't do anything crazy to make it worse on days when she's home alone that would be great cause I don't need to be worrying that she is falling down again!" I smirked with sass while y/n's cheeks turned pink. Tom just laughed at me and then looked back at y/n. "Of course I will! Just let me know when and I'll come to keep Y/n from going crazy!" He laughed a little more and she laughed with him. Then there was silence until i stopped it. "Well, look at the time, I have to go meet someone for a late lunch! You two have fun and don't do anything I wouldn't do y/n!" I winked at her as she rolled her eyes, Tom completely unaware as to what I meant.

Your POV

"Oh Zara, you little..wait never mind!" Zara had already closed the door behind her before I started laughing pretty hard and Tom starting laughing a little with me until I felt a slight stab of pain in my torso from laughing. "Ahaha..OW." I quickly put my hand where it hurt. Tom almost got up from his chair as he went from laughing and happy to worried in a split second. "Are you okay?" He questioned me. "Yeah i think I'm good, I just laughed to hard! I smiled at him showing that it was nothing. "You maybe wanna watch a movie and order some food?" I asked, while getting up from my chair heading towards the living room. He got up following me. He quickly walked in front of me giving me his hands to steady myself on, as I walked to the couch. I smiled at him as he was watching my feet come closer to his, each step. He looked up at me and smiled huge. He seemed like he didn't mind at all, helping me and so maybe these next two weeks won't be so bad, although I have to find a way to tell him that I knew the day after I met him that he is the famous Spider-Man aka Tom Holland. I don't think he even noticed that I acted like he was a complete normal stranger, but then again when we met I was half out of it from falling and being late for work so it was a pretty natural response. We got to the couch and sat down together. Facing one another. Still smiling at each other. "You didn't answer my question about food and a movie!" I wondered for his answer. "Oh.. uh sure we can do that! What kinda food you want I'll pick it up while you pick out the movie?" He looked at me with questioning eyes.

"Uh do you like Italian food? There's lots of dish options!" He smirked a little after I asked. "That's sounds really good, actually yeah let's do it!" He got up from the couch, ordered us some food and left to go pick it up. I picked out one of the mission impossible movies to try to keep myself from sleeping through the movie as I was really tired. I didn't want Tom to leave and I was tired of sleeping so much even though I was exhausted. Thirty minutes later he knocked on the door as I assumed it was him. It took me a good minute to make it across my living room and kitchen to open the door. Oh gosh I'm such an old lady right now. Ugh.

"Good thing this food is wrapped up pretty good and warm, cause your walking like a grandmother, darling!" He laughed a little then put the food on one arm and grabbed one of my arms with his other. "Heeyy!!!" I laughed. We walked to the couch and I sat down wrapping myself in my favorite blue blanket while he set the food on the coffee table and opened it all up. "So what are we watching tonight? Wait let me guess, a romantic comedy?" He smirked at me thinking he knew who he was talking about. Little did he know even though I like romantic movies, I'm not that kind of girl. "Excuse me sir, but I believe we are watching Mission impossible- fall out!" My voice turned up a notch sounding insulted. "Well as long as you don't mind?" I lowered my voice and questioned him. He looked surprised. I don't know if a young woman has ever talked to him like that before. Usually they were all to distracted by his looks and good personality to be bold enough to sass him. But I didn't care cause he was sitting in my living room, eating Italian with me as just two friends and not a famous person kindly interacting with a fan.

"Woah ok I didn't expect that! Yeah I'll watch it!" He kind of giggles a little as I shake my head half smiling while turning the movie on. I sunk into the couch inside my blanket while eating fettuccine Alfredo, watching people try to save the day. I was so comfortable that It already felt like me and Tom were really good friends, but I had to remind myself not to get to close to him cause I couldn't make the same mistake twice. I know someday I'll have to open myself up again if I wanna get married at some point but right now it's nice to just be friends with someone who is naturally kind and respectful to women.

Tom finished his food before me. I could see him glancing at me once in awhile to see if I was done with mine yet. Once I was, he took my container that my food was in along with his and got up to throw it into the trash. He was about to sit back down in the chair he was in. "Hey uh, you can sit on the couch with me if you want! Those chairs aren't as comfortable as this couch!" We locked eyes for a second before he answered. "Okay sure, thanks!" He sat down next to me just a foot away. We watched the movie for about an hour more till I fell asleep 30 minutes before it ended.

Tom's POV

We were so close to finishing the movie as I looked over at y/n to see if she was still awake considering how quiet she was next to me. As soon as I looked over my eyes were met with the sight of a beautiful woman so fragile, curled up in a blanket sleeping. I didn't want to leave her alone, so I watched the rest of the movie. During the last five minutes I felt her flinch through the movement of the couch. I glanced over to see if she woke up but she was still sleeping. So I turned my head to keep watching the movie. The second I did she flinched again yet harder this time. I looked back at her and saw that her body had tightened up becoming smaller. A tear rolled down her cheek as she started to shake a little like she was scared. "Y/n?" I thought she woke up but she was asleep and somehow slightly crying. "Hello, Y/N?" My voice wasn't working. I gently gripped her arms and shook them. "Darling wake up!"