𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒍𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏 | 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒄

CHAPTER FIVE

I woke up the next morning and immediately felt pain in my ankle. I moved the covers and saw my ankle pink and swollen.

Oh no. I cannot tell Mattheo he'll freak out. Today is a school day so he won't come to my room luckily.

That is until I hear a knock on my door. No please don't be Mattheo. I hop over to the door and keep my foot up. I opened it to surprisingly see Tom there.

"Oh uh yeah" I asked with a smile trying not to look unusual. "What's wrong?" he asks, looking me up and down.

"What do you mean nothing's wrong?" I say with a fake confused look. "Then where your chipper 'oh my God hi Tommy what are you doing here' with that big smile of yours" he says raising an eyebrow.

"You have to promise not to tell Mattheo or my brother or anyone actually" I say he gives a nod saying okay.

I move my leg out to show him my swollen ankle. "Merlin, what happened?" he says, actually looking a little concerned.

"I hurt my ankle a few days ago but it just hurts a little it wasn't like this and then I woke up this morning and it was like that and it hurts really bad and I think it might be sprained but I don-" I was cut off by Tom.

"I get it, you need to go to the nurse y/n" he says looking at my ankle. "I can't walk" I looked down, a little embarrassed.

I should have gone the day it happened but me being me I decided not to thinking I would be fine.

He rolls his eyes and turns around. "Just get on," he says. "O- on your back" I stutter as I ask. "Yes, on my back" he says slightly annoyed.

"Bend down a little" I say and he does, I move myself to get on his back, his hands on my legs holding me up like Theo and Mattheo had done.

I could tell her was tense, I was so happy he was helping me though. I was also very surprised. He walked me to the med bay. He sets me down and gets a nurse.

She walks over "what's wrong dearie" she asks. I lift my foot to show my ankle to which her eyes slightly widen. "How long has it been like this?”

"I woke up 10-20 minutes ago and it was like this" I say and she nods, writing it down. "How did you hurt it?" she asks.

Tom was standing next to her and I was a little embarrassed. "I uh tripped going up the stairs and twisted it," I say.

"And when was that?" she asked, an eyebrow raised. "I uh three days ago" I say looking down. "Three days ago, you should have come in sooner" she says back.

"I'll be right back" she says walking into the little office where the medicine was. Tom sat down next to me.

"You don't have to stay with me Tommy" I say. "Don't call me that" he says but doesn't move. I sit back against the pillows. She came back out handing me a pill. It was aspirin and then she handed me a cream of voltaren.

I took the pill and washed it down with some water. I lightly rubbed the cream on my swollen ankle.

The nurses started wrapping it in an elastic bandage after I finished with the cream. "Am I gonna be able to walk?" I asked.

"No sweetie definitely not, you'll need crutches" she says finishing wrapping it. She leans the crutches against the bed.

Mattheo will definitely notice now. I look down at my lap. He'll be mad I didn't tell him right away when it happened and started hurting.

"You should rest, I'll get your homework from your classes" he says standing up. "Thank you Tom" I say looking up at him.

Why was he being soo nice to me? "Are you gonna tell Mattheo?" I ask him. "I have to he needs to know," he says. "Okay" I respond and he walks out the room.

I lay down, closing my eyes. I fell asleep.

---time skip---

I wake up in my bed, the crutches in the corner Mattheo is sitting in a chair next to the bed watching me.

"You alright princess" he asked, reaching out grabbing my hand in his. "Yeah I'm okay" I say back with a small smile. "How's the pain?" he asked, moving closer.

"It doesn't hurt as bad" I look down at my ankle that's propped up on a pillow. "Why didn't you tell me when this happened, Tom said it happened 3 whole days ago" I looked at him slightly.

"I didn't think it was that bad I thought it would just go away, it didn't" I say. I thought he was gonna be mad at me but he seemed understanding.

The door opens and Tom and Draco walk in. Tom sets my homework on my desk and then leaves after he looks at me and then my ankle.

"You're such an idiot, why would you not tell anyone" Draco says walking towards me. And there's the anger, surprisingly from draco.

"We've already had this talk, she didn't think it would be that bad" Mattheo answers for me. I hadn't noticed that Tom didn't leave and was standing in the doorway.

Pansy pushes past him. "Bitch, are you okay" pansy exclaims. "I'm fiiine, pinky promise" I pinky promise her with a smile.

Theo, Blaise Enzo, and Reggie all walk in checking in on me. I look over at Tom and give him a small smile. And then I go back to talking to pansy.

I didn't notice but Tom had left seeing I was surrounded by my friends. It was weird that Tom was so helpful I thought we wouldn't care.

And he let me on his back so he could take me to the nurse. That's even stranger.

I spent the next 2 hours talking to everyone and just hanging out as my ankle slowly went down in swelling.