The Way She Lies × Tomdaya AU

We Could Have

He seemed to be calling someone. I'm just assuming since he held the phone to his ear

"Ella I'm going to be a little late to lunch...yeah I'm fine...love you.."

Ella? So that was his girlfriend.

"Zendaya?" I snapped out of my thoughts"Huh"

"Can we talk? " "You're talking right now but ok" He chuckles "You're still the same old sassy Zendaya"

After his laughter died down it was just awkward silence.

"So, how's life?" I try to make small talk "Z you know that's not what I want to talk about"

"Well what do you want to talk about then, Thomas? You wanna talk about Ell? Ells full name is Elouise Blaire Holland. Scratch that,her last name is Coleman. She was born July 26,2013 and she's four"

I felt like ripping my hair out. This whole situation was making me stressed

Tom gave me a puzzled look "Why can't her last name be Holland?" I scoff "Maybe because you weren't there when I gave birth" I say, sarcastically

He crosses his arms "How are you mad that I wasn't there? It's not even my fault!"

I yell at him "See this is why I didn't want to come back!" He yells back at me "No, you didn't want to come back because you didn't want me to see my own child!"

This whole thing was a mistake. This isnt a Disney movie. Life isn't perfect.

I wipe the tears thst somehow fell "Zendaya.. " Tom touches my shoulder and I flinch

"I'm sorry" He says, taking his hand off my shoulder. I shake my head "It's not your fault" I look around "If anything it's mine. You were right, I didn't want you to see Ell"

I look at him "I still don't understand why you left in the first place"

"I left because you weren't ready. You wanted to become an actor. A child would get in the way of that so I left. If I would have stayed you wouldn't have achieved your dreams of becoming an actor. I couldn't have you resent me for that" I sniff "But that doesn't matter anyway. I just made this whole thing worse"

"What? I could never hate you or Ell. We could have been a family" He says, his voice cracking at the end

This is all my fault

It's like be can read my mind "It's not your fault. You were scared. You acted on fear"

"But it's still not ok. You missed the beginning of Ells life, all because of me. No matter how many times I apologize it's still not ok"

"When does Ell start school?" "Next year, Why?"

"Because I want to be there for her first day" I stared at him for a second be replying "Tom-"

"Please, Zendaya?" "Ok, Tom. Ok"

He smiles which causes me to smile also

"I'm glad that we got to talk about this" He says "Me too"

Now what? "So how's your girlfriend?" Great! Way to be subtle.

He rubs his neck "She's good" I nod "What about you? Anyone special in your life?" "Well..." I began to say

I look down then back up at his face. His jaw Is kind of clenched. What's his problem?

"Not anymore. I was engaged to this guy named Spencer a few years ago. I thought he was going to be the one for me but..." I trail off "Let's just say things don't always work"

His face softens "I'm sorry" I shake my head "Don't be" He hugs me and I hug back

We pull apart when Darnell walks into the living room with bags of food

"Hey guys!" He says excitedly "What's going on?" I ask "Oh nothing" He says

I know he's lying but I play dumb anyway "Yeah ok" I look over at Ell "Ell was it exciting to be with uncle Darnell and grandma Claire?"

"yeah it thwas, mama"

I grabbed her from my mom and hugged her. Tom cleared his throat. I looked back at him then back to Ell.

"Ell, I have someone I'd like you to meet" I say, walking her over to Tom

"Tom meet Ell. Ell meet your father" She looked up at him "Dada?"

He looks at me like he wanted to cry. I want to cry also. Instead of saying anything he nodded and hugged her.

I felt my eyes start watering as they hugged. I look over to my mom and see her recording while Darnell looks emotional.

Maybe this won't be so bad

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Hey guys, its Lex! How was the chapter? Sorry it took me so long to update but I have school. Also I've kinda had writers block..but I'm trying.

⚠EDITED APRIL 15,2018⚠