WORK || TOM KAULITZ

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Then I saw him. He walked in right after Bill. Phone in his hand, looking at it.
Bill immediately saw me. I couldn't read his face. It was a mixture of sadness, confusion and somewhat happiness.

Bill didn't dare to say a word.
A woman walked in showing them the chairs where they are supposed to sit.
I didn't dare to say a word. Tom still looking at his phone. What was so fucking amazing about the phone?

"You guys are set up" "ready to start" the woman says.

Tom puts his phone away. He sees me.

His whole expression changes.

"Hello" Jack says. "Hi" Bill says back.
"Hey" Tom says to Jack looking at me.
Jack now shaking Bill's hand. "Nice to meet you, my name is Jack" "Bill" Bill says nicely. Jack gets to Tom putting his hand out. "Nice to meet you" Jack says. Tom does take his hand. "Nice to meet you too Jack" Tom says. I just watch from behind Jack, hiding. He moves exposing me more. "This is Ela" "she will be just writing everything down" Jack says. Bill smiling about to open his mouth. "Nice to meet you Ela" Tom says looking at me. Bill looks worriedly at me. Why would Tom do that?

"So you guys have been on tour lately" Jack says. "Yeah" Bill answered. "I heard that you guys lived in New York for a longer time" Jack says. "We have, when we moved out of Germany, we went straight to New York" Bill says. "Did you guys liked it there?" Jack asks. Tom staring at me the whole time. I couldn't look at him so I was pretending to write down every singe detail. "Bill did" Tom says. "I honestly hated it there" Tom adds.
I can feel his eyes burning me. "Really?" Jack asks. "Why" he adds. "I don't know, I just didn't love it" Tom says. "So we moved to LA" he says.
Wait what? I look up at Bill, I don't dare to look at Tom but I can feel him staring. Bill gives me a "sorry" look.

"You know Ela actually lived in New York too" Jack says putting his hand on my thigh. I shake a little moving my leg. His hand falling off.

Tom's pov

Disgusting. He's like what Forty-five.
My jaw clenched.

"Oh really did she?" I ask through my teeth, looking at her.

Ela's pov

I can't believe he's acting like he doesn't know me.

"Ok my last question is, what made you come to LA" asked Jack.

"We got an offer" Tom replied. I knew what he was doing.

"A work offer, but we can't say much yet" Bill said quickly trying to save the situation."Ok well, that's it for today" "it was nice to interview you guys" said Jack.

Then they left.

I wanted to apologise to Bill. I missed him so much and he probably hates me now.

I ran out of the room trying to find him. Instead of Bill I see Tom.

I can do this.

"What was that?" I ask him.
He turns around. "What was what Ela" he says back. "Don't act stupid" I say to him. He doesn't say anything back. "I want to talk to Bill" I tell him. "You shouldn't" he says. "Why?" I ask. "You hurt him" "you left without a word" "ignored his calls and texts" he says. In that moment I forgot to speak. "Look i don't care about you but he's mad at you" "he should be" he tells me. "I'm sorry" I managed to get out. He scoffed.
"Your "sorrys" mean nothing Ela" he tells me.

There is a moment of silence.

"He misses you" he started. "But you hurt him a lot" he tells me. "I know" I tell him.
"You should talk to him" he tells me.

"Thank you" I say.

"He's in there" he tells my motioning to a room.

I simply nod my head and go.

I knock on the door. "Bill?" I say so he knows it's me. He opens the door. He looks at me with sad eyes "come in"

I come in and don't waist any time.

"I'm so sorry I left" " I know I hurt you"
I say. "Yeah you kind of did" he says.
"Don't be mad. I just. After that night I couldn't stand to see you" I say. "No I get it. Ela" "It's not me who you should be apologising" he says. I look at him. "Tom doesn't care about me" I tell him.
"Is that what he told you?" He asks. I simply nod my head. "Come on Ela you know him better than that" he tells me. "He has never told anyone that he loves them. Not even to me. I know he does, but he never said it" "He shows love differently" "But he told you. Then you left him" he says. "You broke him that night Ela" he tells me. I can't speak.

My eyes get glossy. He walks to me hugging me. "Please Ela, I beg you. Fix this" He tells me. "But how" I ask. "You will know, he still loves you" he tells me.

That i find hard to believe.

I walk out of the room. Expecting to see him. He's nowhere to be found.