Heaven Above (A Tony Perry Fanfic)

Chapter Thirteen

"Um, I'll have waffles with ice cream and chocolate sauce", I said to the waitress, handing her my menu.

Listening to the rest of the guys argue about food I relaxed back into the diner booth seat.

"Ice cream and chocolate sauce?" Tony asked, taking one of my hands in his.

"Yeah. I couldn't decide so I chose both", I grinned.

Tony grinned back at me, "That's what I like about you."

I shrugged, "I'm impulsive."

He grinned, lowering his head and kissing me on the cheek. I smiled, what was up with him today? He seemed so touchy feely. I mean I wasn't complaining, hell, how could I complain when the cutest boy I'd probably ever met was tenderly kissing my cheek? I heard Jaime groan and chose to ignore it. Looking up as Tony pulled away I noticed the waitress placing our food on the table, thanking her I pulled my legs up and crossed them under me. Grabbing the syrup bottle off the table I poured syrup on my already chocolate covered waffles.

"Finally", Vic sighed and I looked up at him, "I'm not the only one who has a love for maple syrup."

"What?" I asked before looking down at my syrup soaked waffles and smiled, "Oh. Yeah. I do love my syrup."

"You should see Vic", Mike said, in between mouthfuls of food, "He eats so much syrup he's practically Canadian."

"I'm Canadian on the inside", Vic said.

I laughed nodded before going back to my food. Feeling Tony wrap his arm around my waist I looked up at him, he grinned down at me. Suddenly my phone vibrated in my pocket, making me jump. Wriggling the phone from my pocket, I turned unlocked it and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Tony asked, quietly in my ear.

"I have seven new messages", I muttered opening my inbox and wondering when they had all came through.

"Is that a problem?" He asked.

"Ah", I mumbled, opening the first message "I'm not sure."

It was Katy, a long winded apology. Closing it I opened the next six which all seemed to be from the same blocked number. Hearing my phone clatter to the table I felt Tony's arm tighten around my waist. My body had gone numb, glancing down at my phone six horribly abusive text messages stared up at me.

"What's-" Tony asked picking up my phone and reading the messages, "Oh Tori."

Burying my head into his chest I felt him wrap both arms around my shoulders, one of his hands stroking my back reassuringly. I had always been a strong person, thick skinned but even abusive anonymous  text messages got to me. I could hear the boys talking around me but I didn't care. Who had the right to abuse me? I mean if your going to be horrible at least have the guts to put your name to it. Their words sounded like just that, words, they held no meaning to me.  Who was sending me these messages? I squeezed my eyes closed, but no tears would come. Thank god. I don’t know how long Tony and I sat together, ignoring the boys, ignoring the world.

"Tor?" Tony whispered finally.

Pulling my head away from his chest I looked up at him through my lashes, "Yeah?"

"You're gonna be ok", He murmured.

I nodded sadly, "Let's hope so."

He smiled and I rested my head against his shoulder, looking around at the guys. I could feel his hand rubbing my back reassuringly.

"What's everyone doing today?" I asked, pushing the messages to the back of my mind and trying to focus on the positive.

"What do you want to do today?" Tony mumbled, he'd picked up my phone and was focused on it.