Golden Love ~Tom Daley~

Home.

Alright, let me tell you about home. I live in a place called Apple Valley. It's a really nice upper class community on a lake. It's not far out of Columbus so I don't have to drive too far to get to training in the city. My house is on the lake front and it's a nice size. Both my parents came from money and my Dad runs an internet company so we have a larger house. But unlike a lot of the people around us we don't flaunt our money. We have normal cars and a smaller boat. If that makes any sense?

Since it was already mid August I wanted to soak up as much summer as I could before getting back into training for my schools team. I wouldn't be starting back at school until mid September, they'd been very understanding in letting me take a light class load for this first semester so I could recover from the Olympics. I got to The Ohio State University by the way!

I was laying on my back dock. I'd been home for a day now. Addy and I had spent the morning cooking. We made Dad breakfast in bed and then made muffins and now she was taking a nap so I was outside tanning and soaking up the sun! The only thing about this that sucked was that Mother Nature decided to give me a visit. Which meant I was a bit emotional. I was really starting to get over Tom. Now looking at it, it was just some Olympic fling that never would have worked. I mean he lives and trains in England there's no way we could be in a relationship across an ocean.

I unlocked my phone and went online to Perez Hilton and searched Toms name. There was an article about him that had been posted yesterday. I opened it and started reading.

"Olympic hottie Tom Daley was supposidly caught cheated on Olympic gold medalist Joules McCrey. The two had come out as a couple just days earlier. When Daley was asked about the incident he said "The papparazi have a great way of taking something so inocent like 2 very long time friends reuniting and giving a quick peck into something like this. I did not cheat on Joules." according to sources McCrey hadn't said goodbye to Daley before she left to come back to the States to do press and go back home to Ohio. She was however seen the day after Closing Ceremonies with swimmer and best friend Michael Phelps. No word from either parties on whether they've broken up. But if I were Joules and I was that I would be piesed."

I clicked out of the artle. All i'm saying is that the picture I saw did not look like 2 friends 'reuniting' but if that's what he wants to say. Whatever. I'm over it. I locked my phone and put it back next to me.

"Hey sweetie. Want some lemonade?" My dad walked up and sat in the chair next to me.

"I'd love some." I smiled taking the glass from him.

"So how you holding up kid? Seriously? Don't fluff it."

"I'm doing alright actually. Still on my Olympic high. Like it's so weird to now wake up in that tiny room everyday and have to go to training and stuff. Yesterday when i was at McDonalds I actually left without paying I'd forgotten I wasn't in the village anymore." I laughed.

He chuckled "I think I read on Alex Morgans Twitter that she did the same thing."

"Dad. You have Twitter now?" I asked.

"Of course! I like to keep up with people!"

"You are such an odd duckling Father."

"But i'm all yours." he gave me a cheeky smile.

"Sometimes I seriously forget that you're my Dad."

"What am I then?"

"You act more like a best friend. But that's okay, because that's what I need."

"Aww come here kid I love you." I stood up and sat on his lap and cuddled with him like we used to do when I was a kid. "Now, tell me how you're feeling about the Tom situation."

"I miss him. But then I think about him cheating on me and I get over it. I'm just upset he would do that but i'm getting over it."

"I think you should talk to him. Get some closure. Or at least let him try and explain. You never know, it could be something else. The press always has a way of spinning and twisting things."

"I guess. Maybe i'll do it later today."

"I think you should." he smiled.

"Thanks Daddy."

"DADDY?!" We heard Addy yell from the house.

"OOUT HERE SWEETIE!" he yelled.

A few seconds later the little girl was running through the yard in her little Nike get up i'd dressed her in. She was like me where she always wanted to look sporty. But we loved to play dress up too. She ran up to us and I picked her up and sat her on Dads other knee.

"What's up?" he asked her.

"Daddy can we go get ice cream?" she pouted.

"Well only of Joules wants to." looked and me and raised an eyebrow.

Addy looked at me with those 'pretty please' eyes and i just smiled. "Well I guess we can!" Addy jumped up and starts clapping and grabbed both my Dad and my hands and dragged us up to the house. My Dad got his keys and we went out to the garage where there was a white Chevy truck, a cobolt blue Tahoe and a black Audi crossover that Dad had gotten me for my birthday. We all hopped in the Tahoe and I put on Dora The Explorer for Addy in the back seat.

"When's the last time you checked your phone?" my Dad asked.

"Uhhhh I think I was in New York?"

"Are you avoiding Tom?"

"Yupp!' I popped the 'p'.

"Just turn it on and shoot him a text."

"I guess I should?"

"You know you should."

I sighed and turned on my phone. 20 new messages from Tom, most of them texts. i really didn't feel like reading them or listening to them so I ignored them and just decided to call him since we were almost to the Dairy.

"I'm just going to call him. When we get there can you get me mint chocolate chip in a waffle cone?" I asked my Dad.

"Of course" he smiled as we pulled into the parking lot. My Dad got Addy out of the back and I press the call button. It rang twice before I heard someone answer.

"Joules?"

"Hi." I said simply.

"Where are you? Are you alright?"

I'm in Ohio. And physically I'm fine. Emotionally I could be better."

"Joules. I want you to know. That picture was not what it looks like. Gemma and I hadn't seen eachother in years and she just kissed me hello. It was nothing."

"Tom, it didn't look like nothing. I made the mistake of Googleing her and I found out you two used to be a fling?"

"That's what it was. A fling. Years ago. I ended it and she still isn't over it obviously."

"Tom how am I supposed to know that i'm not just a fling. What makes me any different than anyother girl you've ever had a fling with."

"First off you don't any of my shit. Second you exactly what it's like to go through what i've gone through. Three when i'm around you I can be Tom. I don't have to be 'Britains golden boy' you just make me feel like i've never felt before. And I want to get to know you so much more."

"Tom, I love that you can feel yourself around me and I don't care how big of a celebrity you are. But in all honesty I don't think anything can happen. We live on opposite sides of the world. What we had was special, but I think we just need to move on with our lives and let whatever it was go."

"But Jou---"

"Goodbye Tom. Thank you for everything." And with that I hung up the phone and my body went numb. My Dad put Addy in the back of the car and hopped in the front seat and handed me my ice cream.

"How'd it go."

"I ended it." I said flatly.