New Friends

Chapter Sixteen

Your pov

Before we ate the rest of breakfast and talked about the possibilities of today, Tom gave me a long hug. He wrapped me in his arms and rubbed my back making me warm with butterflies and the feeling of being calm, safe, and relaxed. I have to admit that I am still in pain today but I really am sick of laying around so much so I decided to ignore the pain and do something fun. I think Tom some how knew what I was doing but he didn't say a word.

He is going back to LA for work tomorrow and doesn't know how long he will be gone so I think he really just wants to spend this day doing anything that his family wants to do and me included I guess! To start the day off me, Tom, Harry, Sam, and Paddy played some board games and I played the piano while waiting for lunch time to come around. The boys loved me playing the piano for them and I honestly felt so weird doing it, like I was showing off or something.

I played one of my favorite songs called Falling Apart by Michael Schulte. It is a beautiful deep song that makes me feel like somehow I am expressing my emotions and whole heart and mind in one moment yet not saying a word. After I was done playing everyone clapped. "Um y/n? I didn't know you were THAT good!" Tom sounded impressed. "Um I guess I am?? I don't know, I just play for pleasure."

I felt so weird I don't know why, like just weird that the boys think I'm so good when I just play for my pleasure and just have always done exactly what I have done my whole life from when I started playing piano. "Tom is right your amazing! How did you get so good?" Sam asked with excitement in his eyes. "Thank you! I started when I was 7 and I guess even though sometimes it was hard I always stuck to playing."

I was still sitting on the piano bench now turned with my back towards the piano. "Who was that playing? I missed watching y/n play didn't I? Well I heard some of it and it was good!" Nikki walked into the room. She had bright happy eyes and a smile while she joined us. "Thank you all so much and uh isn't it about lunch time now?" I asked while being serious. "Wow you seem to have such an appetite today!" Tom laughed at me.

"She's right though and I'm hungry to so let's go!" Paddy said getting up while trying to drag Harry with him but all he was doing was pulling Harry's arm making it look like Harry's arm was being torn off. Everyone followed Paddy's lead while me and Tom where stuck a little behind. Well I was stuck a little behind everyone because of my injury which made me move slightly slower than everyone else. Tom was behind everyone else because he wanted to wait for me and help if necessary.

A few of us went to go get the food we ordered since it would have been a lot if all seven of us went out to eat. Sam, Tom, and me went and got the food. Tom knew I have been healing pretty well but still in pain so he didn't want me to do much at all today but I told him otherwise. We literally just started dating and that man cares about me so much that the whole world mind as well already know cause it's so stupidly obvious it's ridiculous.

I am very happy that he cares so much but I am a grown woman and he can't seem to understand that I don't need help and rest all the time just to heal. I purposely made Sam sit in the front with Tom so that he wouldn't feel like a third wheel cause that would only make things awkward. Tom kept looking in the rear view mirror to see if I was okay. I don't know what he was thinking like was I just gonna disappear or something? I don't know!

We all got out of the car to grab the food and Tom noticed that there where a few people taking pictures of us. So he walked right into me and put his arm around me trying to suck away from the people with me while Sam followed. "What are you doing Tom?" I asked a little unaware what was happening. Were people in his own town taking pictures of him?

"Nothing darling, just avoiding the cameras. Just stick by my side okay?" He was pressing his shoulder into my cheek while his arm was wrapped around me. I wrapped my arm around his shoulders as we both tightened our grip. "It's okay Tom, I'm alright. We are just getting food and it's really not a lot of people at all!" I calmingly made sure he knew he could just relax.

We got the food, crossed the street again with it, and went back to the house. We ate lunch all seven of us together and starting clearing the table. While cleaning up we decided that everyone except Nikki, Paddy, and me where going to go play golf some point in the day. Tom wanted to play golf with his brothers beside Paddy who doesn't really seem to care to much for it and he thought it would be better for me with my injury to stay home. He was probably right but I knew that I could come and I wanted to so I insisted.

"Guys I could come play golf with you if you want! My back is much better today and I'm tired of laying around!" I tried to convince them to let me come. "Are you sure about this y/n?" Tom walked closer to me and a little out of his family's sight. They were getting ready to go in other parts of the house while Tom took me aside a little and asked me this. "Yes Tom, don't worry about me, I want to spend your last day with you as much as possible before who knows how long we will see each other again."

I rubbed his arm letting him know I'll miss him. He rubbed my arm with the same arm I was rubbing and looked me in the eyes. "I know love..... If you feel up to it I would gladly play golf with you today, okay?" He smiled with his puppy eyes. "Then it's settle, I'll come with you!" I smiled back, hugged him tight and quick enough that he barely had time to wrap his arms around my body, then walked as fast as I possibly could upstairs to get appropriate shoes since I was already wearing a sweatshirt and jeans which will work fine.

Once I was ready and everyone else was to, we all went into the cars. "Y/n, if you feel tired or pain at any point in the game don't hesitate to let us know cause we will leave!" Dom made sure I knew. "Thank you but I think I will be fine and if I do get tired or start to be in more pain then I can just sit in the golf cart until you guys are done it's really no big deal!" I smiled letting them all know. "Ok as long as you are sure cause we can always just quit the game it's not a big deal either." Tom butted in.

"No it's fine, I don't mind!" I reassured him.

———————two hours later—————————

Tom's pov

We are almost done with golf and y/n looks like she couldn't last another minute. She did surprisingly pretty well for a girl who played golf last time when she was a little girl with her Dad. After about an hour she was walking slower and I helped her out a few times. I reminded her twice that she can go sit in the cart anytime if she gets tired but she kept saying she was okay and that it's good for her to keep going.

Now it's been past two hours and she is finally sitting in the cart waiting for us to get done with the last two holes. Dad and Harry were already at the last one while me and Sam were still at the second to last. We both finished and moved on to the last hole while Dad and Harry went to the cart and joined y/n.

"Last one and then you can stop worrying about Y/n so much!" Sam grinned real big. "What? No I'm not worrying! What makes you think I'm worried?" I was a little confused why he was asking. "Please Tom, you haven't stopped occasionally looking over at her for the past half hour!" Sam had a point and I didn't even realize. "Ok I am a little worried, she doesn't seem okay and tomorrow I'm leaving and I won't be able to make sure she recovers completely."

I dropped my smile and hit my ball landing it into the hole. "She'll be okay Tom, she's got us and you can always call her!" He put his hand on my shoulder comforting me. "Thank you Sam, your right." I smiled at him and patted his arm.

We went back to the cart y/n was on as Dad and Harry went to their cart. Y/n got off the cart after I put my clubs on the back and she hugged me. "Tom, I can barely walk it hurts so bad. I was stupid to think I could do this with you today." She whispered into my ear.