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eleven

"kalarnie, dear, what a surprise to see you here. tommy's upstairs." she nodded, smiling at sarah.

tommy wasn't saying much at all. when she got up the stairs and peeked through the crack on the door, it was him with three girls on a zoom type call.

what was going on? she walked downstairs as sat on the lounge, fishing her phone from her pockets. going on twitch and opening it, the first stream caught her eyes.

LOVE OR HOST FT. TOMMYINNIT.

huh?

she clicked on it and now there were two girls.

a voice spoke out, it was cheerful, albeit a little raspy, and announced one of the girls, ivyinnit, would be spending five minutes with him. like a mini date?

"hey." he began, ivy looking down. "you okay?"

"yeah, i just really didn't think i'd make it this far, to be honest." tommy nodded. "i see you like ed sheeran."

tommy smiled, "he's one of my favourite artists. besides lovejoy." "you say that because wilbur's your friend."

"and it's true, sex sells is my favourite!" "i really like the fall. it's intense. i like intense."

"oh?" tommy awkwardly chuckles. that raspy voice came back to tell them their time was up. the other girl, alyssacarrys6, was alerted and smiled as she looked at the two others.

"so five minutes? that doesn't seem like a lot of time." she began, a bit nervous.

"you seem nervous. you've come this far!" tommy tried to bring her mood up.

"i'm fine, tommy. i promise." noticing he picked up on her background, she tilted her head slightly. "you good?"

"you like heartstopper?" "oh- yeah. it's a good series."

the two fell into a very smooth rhythm of talking about their favourite things. "wait, where are you from?" tommy asks.

"australia. it's very nice where i live." she showed a real bushy landscape with all different kinds of birds, a kangaroo bouncing by.

"that is really pretty. you're lucky to get to live there." the girl oddly chuckled.

"thank you." the two smiled at each other and kalarnie felt jealous.

"alright, times up, lee and tommy."

"thanks austin." tommy sarcastically replied. so the host's name was austin.

"how did you feel those date went, tommy?" "i feel like i know who i want to pick austin."

pick? this boy can't be serious right now. he was supposed to pick someone?

"oh, tommy, already? alright, just send me who you want-" kalarnie felt like she was going to cry.

"well, ladies. the time has come." tommy nodded accordingly. "mr tommyinnit has picked who he wants. alyssa and ivy were a little nervous, kalarnie could tell. "alyssa..."

ivy perked up, so did alyssa. "... it's the end of the road-"

kalarnie was actually a little invested.

"-but not for you!"

the two girls showed vaguely different expressions. alyssa looked both surprised and happy. "you okay ivy?" she asked.

"yeah." austin's voice sounded through again.

"ivy, we know how far you've come. would you like to tell tommy, alyssa and everyone watching, what you picked?"

"well, i did unfortunately pick love-" everyone looks a bit remorseful. "at first. but i picked host!" she smirked as austin let her shout herself out.

alyssa and tommy were the only two left.

kalarnie gulped. "alyssa, before the show, i asked you to send me love or host. which did you pick?"

"i picked love." she grinned. celebratory music sounded and tommy smiled.

it was like he had a sixth sense because people didn't realise but he had been looking behind him every so often.

"tommy, you hear that? a girl actually wants you!" "austin, shut up." the two teens groaned at the same time.

"they even have twin telepathy!" wilbur grinned. "that's so cute."

going through the rest of the procedure, kalarnie felt even more torn. alyssa and tommy go on some sort of date and kalarnie had to physically tell his mum that she was leaving.

stream still playing, she heard tommy get interrupted.

"mum, im streaming!" he groaned.

"it's kalarnie, dear. she came here to visit but she's gone off home now." tommy's eyes widened as he realised his mistake.

"oh fuck..." he whispered so only he could hear.

alyssa's voice fed through the stream. "you okay tommy?" "uh yeah, i might have to cut stream and our date short."

he could practically hear wilbur telling him that he fucked up. "right, got to go guys!" he said as everyone watching abruptly came upon a 'stream ended' card.

with tears in her eyes, kalarnie had already come to one conclusion, that nothing her and tommy had done mattered. at all.

"kalarnie!" she didn't turn around as tommy yelled out to her from up the street. "kalarnie please!"

god, did she wish they lived on different streets.

"so you have a new girlfriend?" she whispered loud enough.

"i promise it is not what it looks like!" tommy explained the best he could. "it's a game show! nothing serious.

"alyssa thinks otherwise. how did you manage to bag the girl who plays amber von tussle on westend?" "i didn't bag her! it's not like that!"

"it's a dating show!" she explained back.

"it's entertainment!" "all dating shows are entertainment, big boy."

she had a serious point. still, tommy felt distraught. "kalarnie, please just know that i didn't mean for this to happen. i should have told you beforehand and-"

the door had already shut and tommy placed his hands in his head. taking out his phone, he texted the one person he knew could help him.

wilbur

tommy
i fucked everything up