That Perfect Stranger

Chapter 11

I pulled the door open with a massive smile on my face trying to look like i'm excited to see my older brother.

"Liam!" We both swung our arms around each other, Liam picking me up and squeezing me to death with his massive muscles. Once he put me down he walked in with me closing the door gently behind him.

"Your back so soon little sis. How was London?" I kept smiling while my hands started to sweat from being so nervous. "Um...pretty good. I got a lot of things."

He walked around the room. "Thats great! So why are you back now? Something happen?" I finally wiped my sweaty palms on my pants, hoping Tom wont come out yet.

"Work called. Yeah, Jess needed me to do a photo shoot." He smiled and looked at a painting I had on the wall. "And how was that?" I lowered my head and dropped my shoulders, quietly saying "I got fired."

Straight away I felt his brown eyes burning into me, just like how my dad always death stared me. "You what!?" I looked up and held my hands up, hoping he wouldn't get too angry.

"No no, Liam, it's ok, i'v got it all under control. I can easily get a new job." He sighed, shaking his head and rubbing his eyes.

We stood there in silence for a bit, me standing there not knowing what to say. "Do you want something to drink?" Straight away his brown eyes were looking straight at me. "Water please."

I smiled, starting to walk to the kitchen with him following me. "So how's your work going?" He leaned against the bench with his arms crossed, looking out the kitchen window.

"Yeah it's great! You know Dave finally left." I gave him a surprised look as the water from the tap poured into the glass. "Really? What happened?" He shifted a little bit and then grabbed the glass off me. "He just had enough and couldn't stand it."

I leaned against the pantry door and went to go ask another question. "So hows-." Tom placed one of my suit cases in the lounge room then looking over into the kitchen at me. "Darling, thats the first suitcase done."

Straight away my mouth dropped and I looked at Liam. He gave me a confused look and said "darling?" I stood up straight and watched as Liam turned around to see who said that.

"Who are you?" At the same time me and Tom looked at each other with a terrified look on our faces. His eyes slowly moved back to Liam. "Tom."

I quickly ran into the lounge room next to Tom when Liam took a step closer to him. Both our shoulders were touching as I snaked my hand down his arm and held his hand.

"Tom who?" I herd Tom gulp as he still death stared Liam. "Hiddleston." Liam looked over at my black suitcase and then at me. "Where are you going?" Tom looked down at me and kept looking at me until I told Liam where I was going.

"To London." Liam gave me a very confused look as he looked down at mine and Tom's hands. "Your moving in with him?" I slowly nodded, starting to feel my palms sweat again. "Why?" I squeezed Tom's hand.

"Because I love him." Liam looked back at Tom, giving him a death stare. "Poppy, bed room, now" he said in a serious commanding voice. I dropped my head and let my hand slip away from Tom's as I dragged my feet all the way to the bed room.

Once we were in there Liam gently closed the door, turning around with his arms crossed. "You love him?" I looked out the window. "Yes!" He sighed and kicked his foot at the carpet, looking around at everything scattered everywhere.

"When did you meet, and how?" I sighed and turned to face him. "Last week...he spilt his drink on me." It went from a chuckle to a loud laugh.

"Are you serious Poppy!?" I felt tears coming up. "Don't."

He rested his arm on the wall. "You only met last week and your moving in with him!! You never know!! Right now he could be planning how to...to...rape you and then kill you!!" Tom probably herd that.

"He's not! He would never do anything like! I know a lot about him already!!" Liam kept laughing and pretending to wipe away tears as if it was so funny.

"Oh yeah? How?" I scrunched my hands up at my sides. "BECAUSE HE'S A DAMN ACTOR!!!" Suddenly Liam stopped laughing and pulled a serious face. "Sorry?"

I sighed and faced the window, tears rolling down my cheeks. "An actor. He's famous." The room went dead silent and all that I could hear was Liam's footsteps.

He gently placed his hands on my shoulders and rested his forehead against my shoulder. "Your exactly how dad was." I felt him shake his head slowly. "Please don't bring dad into this."

I sniffed, wiping away some tears. "You know, he's very nice to me and I know he loves me."

"I'm sorry Poppy. I just...got a bit freaked out. I'm not used to you doing something like this." I pulled my shoulder away. "All that I wanted was for you to say yes I can go with him and you do something with the house."

He gently turned me around so I was facing him. "Poppy. You go, go do what ever the hell you want. Be happy. I'll do something with the house." I smiled as more tears ran down my cheeks. "Thank you, thank you so much."

He wrapped his arms around me and held me for a few seconds. "I'm sorry."

We both walked out into the lounge room seeing Tom patiently waiting on the couch for us to come out. He looked over at me and gave me a worried look, seeing me with red eyes and wet cheeks.

He quickly stood up and held his arms out for me as I walked directly to him. I wrapped my arms around him and rested my head on his shoulder.

"Are you ok love?" I nodded. Liam stood at the other end of the couch staring at Tom.

"Tom, I want to talk to you." I looked up at him and smiled, whispering "he said yes." Tom nodded and moved away from me, heading to the bed room to talk to Liam.

As he walked past him, Liam gave him a massive hard pat on the back making Tom jump. "This is going to be a good talk."

I sighed and tucked a piece of hair behind my ear. I hope he doesn't hurt Tom.

I walked over to the suitcase and opened it, seeing what Tom had packed for me. As I was just about to look at a top there was a massive thump that came from the bed room.

I gasped and looked down the hallway at the closed door. I couldn't hear them shouting so thats good. I bit my bottom lip hoping that Tom will still be in one piece.

I zipped up the suitcase and then I herd the door open and laughter coming out of the room.

Suddenly Liam and Tom walked out with their arms around each other, laughing.