Not Without You [Chris Evans]

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Megan's POV

After Sebastian left I decided to shower. I felt dirty from all the packing and unpacking I'd done today and I couldn't wait to get clean - and get the smell of weed off me. As the hot water relaxed me, I thought about how lucky I was to have a great boss and good friends that cared about me.

This morning, before I'd decided to make breakfast I'd posted a brief, vague message about moving on and a little later Andy had posted a picture of him with his new girlfriend, Rayna. It was overly sweet (for him) and made me wonder just how long he'd been cheating on me with her. I unfollowed and blocked Andy on all of my social media accounts, changing my passwords for good measure – just in case he knew any of them.

I had a bunch of texts from my friends that I'd been messaging off and on for most of the day to reply to; all my girls from the diner especially wanted to know if I was doing okay after they noticed my Facebook status had changed back to single. Emma wanted to be sure I had a place to stay, so I sent my friends a Snap of my new, temporary room before deciding to post a picture of it on Instagram, tagging Sebastian and captioning it – Let the Roomie Chronicles begin! I hadn't really had a roommate since college, so this was going to be interesting; when I was a nanny, I'd always been so busy with the kids that living with the family just make my life easier.

Then I posted a picture of the Thor movies and a glass of wine captioned Lazy night in; my phone buzzed a minute later with a text from an unknown number.

You're going to watch
my movies without me?

Who's this?

Tom Hiddleston.

    Hi Tom – sorry, this
isn't the number I had
for you in my phone.
Ok to talk?

My answer was an incoming call. "Hey Tom."

"Hello Megan," he said, his cultured British voice making me smile. "How are you today?"

I smiled. "Perfectly fine. I'm one of those people that wakes up cheerfully early after a night out. How about you?"

"I'm well, but it's probably a good thing the team doesn't party like that often. So who won your drinking challenge?"

I laughed. "I ended up losing to Chris, unfortunately. Uggh, I hate losing! I don't know what I was thinking to make a challenge like that to him."

"You are certainly an original, Megan."

"Thanks, I think," I smiled to myself. "But anyways, to answer your question, I was going to watch these alone, but you're certainly welcome to join me if you don't have anything going on tonight."

"Where's everyone else?"

I rattled off the list for him. "Well, Sadie, Baz, Scarlett and Chris are going on a date tonight; Baz just left to meet up with them a little bit ago. Lizzie said she's hanging out with her sister this weekend and Tom Holland had to get packed to head home until they need him in LA...so it's just me, myself, and I."

"I would love to join you, if you don't mind," he said. "I was just scrolling through my feed when your update popped up and I knew I had to say something."

"I wondered how you managed to reply so fast. I'm at Baz's if you want to come over; do you know where that is?"

"Yes, I've been there a time or two. I'm already ready to leave, so I'll be there in 15 – my hotel isn't very far from his apartment. Have you eaten yet?"