When I'm Gone [Tom X Reader]

The Risk Taker

This is modeled after Dear Starboy, a sad TomTord story by saltiestblueberry and a lot of it is inspired by their book. I also decide on a lot of things for you so sorry if you don't like somethings. Link to Dear Starboy: https://my.w.tt/UiNb/4fVrAnCiVI

~A few days later~

[Tom's POV]
I wake up from my sleep, still tired. I could've slept in, but I couldn't stop thinking about Y/N. Not in that way, but still. She just didn't seem right.

I would constantly hear yelling and screaming come from her house. I could hear doors slam, glass breaking and crying. We would talk through the windows, but we never really talked other than that. Sometimes I would hear her softly cry when she assumed I wasn't around. I felt so bad. I only wanted to help her, but she wouldn't tell me what was wrong. She always said "I'm fine," or "I'm happy," but I knew she was lying. Why won't she just let me help her!

I lie awake on my black and white sheets. Then I hear something bang against my window. I hear the bang again and I walk over to my window and open it. It revealed Y/N sitting on her window ledge, her full body outside and her legs dangling down from the windowsill. If she fell down the lethal drop she would die.

"Y/N! What are you doing! That's extremely dangerous!" I shout.

"Oh, I'll be careful." She says. She leans forward to mess with me but she leans back.

"Y/N seriously! You could get yourself killed!" I yelled.

"I'll be fine, Tom!" She alleged.

She turns and crawls back into her room. Then she smiled.

"See? I said I'd be fine!" She stated.

"You could've died!" I say angrily.

"But I didn't!" She added.

I sighed. "There's no arguing with you, is there?"

"Nope!" Her accented voice said. "Are you available at 8:30 tonight?" She asked out of the blue. (A/N:Haha Author~Chan has hilarious puns.)

"Yeah why?" I ask. It was August 15th and school wasn't for at least 2 weeks so I had no work.

"I want to show you something." She said.

"Okay then." I say.

{Your POV}
I hope he likes it...

You shut your window and walk outside. Lucky for you, your father was at a party with his alcoholic friends. You wanted to see your 'animal friends' before sundown.

You walk into the woods and through your trail of muddy footprints. You enter your alluring cavern to see a doe and her sleeping fawn. She looked at you and she scooted her baby closer to her hazelnut colored body. You whispered a "Hello," to her and she seemed to recognize you. You guessed that you both came here so often she was okay with you. She even allowed you close enough to touch her fawn.

You sat on a silver rock and gazed at the blue stream. The currents swirled and rushed in one direction, and you could see multicolored fish leap in and out of the clear yet aqua water.

You watch the snowy and night black rabbits and their babies hop around the haven. Then a baby chipmunk scurried into your lap and snuggled there. Life is really a beautiful thing.