The Theater Room

Chapter 24

Erins POV:
(3 weeks later)

Three weeks. It has been three weeks since I've talked to Harry. The only time we talk to each other is when we're running our scenes in drama, and we're actually singing not talking. The fact that we have to kiss doesn't make me happy anymore. It fills me with dread. Luckily we haven't ran that scene since we had our fight. We run our parts and don't say anything else to each other otherwise.

On a different note, it has been two weeks since Tom and I made it official. It has been pretty great. It's nice to have someone you can count on.

"Hey love." I hear Tom say and I'm pulled from my thoughts. "Hey." I grin and kiss his cheek. "You ready?" "Yeah, I'm ready." I reply and grab the blanket that's next to me before standing up. Today Tom and I are going to the park for a more relaxed date.

We begin to walk and Tom laces his fingers with mine and squeezes my hand. I can't help but smile up at him, he notices and kisses my forehead. "Stop being so cute." I blush and look forward. "I can't help it. But I could say the same to you." Tom replies and nudges me. "But I can't help it." I reply repeating what he'd just said to me. "Good. I don't want you to stop being cute." Tom says and smiles down at me. "But you could never not be cute even if you tried." "Same goes for you." I reply and his smile grows.

For the rest of the walk to the park we walk hand in hand and talk about random things. Once we arrive to the park we find a nice shady spot under an oak tree and lay out our blanket. I sit down and stretch my legs out in front of me. Tom then sits down and lays his head over in my lap, to which I lean back on one hand and proceed to rub his head with my free hand. Something about this reminds me of when Tom asked me to be his girlfriend.

*Flashback*
(2 weeks ago)

"So why are we just sitting on a bench in the park?" I ask through a slight chuckle, "Not sure really. This date is more spontaneous." Tom chuckles and puts his arm around me and pulls me closer to his side. "Well I like spontaneous, spontaneous is good." I reply and lean my head on his shoulder.

A few minutes pass and Tom clears his throat. "Um Erin can I ask you something?" "Ask away." I reply and Tom moves his arm from around me and faces me so I do the same. Tom takes hold of both of my hands and rubs his thumbs over them before looking up at me.

"Um, I wanted to say that these past five months of knowing you have been amazing. And that dating you has been even better." Tom says and I cant help but smile, "I wanted to ask if you wanted to be my girlfriend?" Tom adds and my smile grows wider. "I'd love to be your girlfriend." I reply and he exhales a sigh of relief. "Sweet." he replies and squeezes my hands. "Um, can I kiss you?" he asks and it makes me giggle.

"Yeah. You don't even really have to ask though. It's part of the job description." I say trying to be serious, "Well in that case I better get a move on. I don't wanna get fired." he grins then leans in and so do I.

His right hand goes to the side of my neck and his left hand rest on my knee and our lips meet. At first it was slightly awkward, but that's expected with any first kiss really. (Not as good as Harry.) when that thought crosses my mind I pull back.

"Did I do something wrong?" Tom asks with a worried looking expression, "No, no you didn't do anything wrong. I'm sorry." I reply and place a hand on his cheek. I lightly pull his face towards me and he obliges. I press my lips to his and when I feel his lips molding with mine I deepen the kiss.

(Harry's not going to ruin this for me.)
*End of flashback*

The thought of Harry being the first thing I thought of when Tom and I kissed pisses me off. I cut him out of my life and he still somehow seems to invade my mind. (Harry would be so much better.) My mind tempts me further and I've had enough.

"Tom sit up." I say and he does so, "What's up?" he questions looking slightly confused. "Kiss me." "What?" "Kiss me." "Right now?" "No next Tuesday. Yes right now." I say through an exasperated chuckle. "Well you don't have to ask again." he chuckles, "Good." I reply and pull him towards me.

We're both on our knees when this kissing started but as it started to get more intense I ended up on my back and Tom more on top of me. Thank god there's like no one else in the park.

Tom pulls his lips away from mine and kisses down my neck then back up and he lightly bites at the skin of my neck which nearly makes me moan, but I end up giggling when the moan doesn't happen.

He pulls away and looks at me and he's smiling. "That was probably the cutest giggle I've ever heard." he says and brushes a stray piece of hair behind my ear. "I think we should stop for the moment." Tom adds and blushes, "Why-" I begin to ask but stop myself when I feel "him" brush against my leg. "Oh!" I reply and chuckle, "Yeah I think that'd be a good idea." "Yeahhh." He chuckles and sits back, now in a straddle position over me.

I smile up at him and look over to my left and I see Harry staring back at me. I gasp and sit up, but when I do I accidentally press myself again Tom and we both gasp in a different way. (Oh no. Oh no, this probably looks so bad.)

I look back over at Harry and he obviously doesn't look happy. The feeling i'm gathering from his stare is one of sadness and anger, but I feel like there's something else there. I just can't tell what it is.

(I'm gonna hear about this.)

*A/N: It's been awhile since I've updated. I'm sorry. I've just had things going on in my life recently and writing was pushed to the back burner for a little bit.

Not to mention that anytime i'd try to possibly write writers-block was a son of a bitch and I couldn't do anything.

This chapter was a little slow going to begin with. But I had to get something done so that the rest of the plot could build.

I hope it was alright. I'm sorry for the wait on an update.

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