FOR LONDON [1: TOM HOLLAND]

CHAPTER THREE

jake
so
tell me about london

maria
it's a lovely place!!
would definitely recommend
you should visit it some time
although — wait, didn't you already go last summer ??
you jOKESTER
oh my god
joke foster

jake
so we're in that mood today, huh??

maria
me ?? nah ??
idk what you mean :/

jake
how about you don't attempt to deflect
for the first and only time in your life
and you tell me about the boy you fell in love with in london

maria
deadass you listened to the song
you know everything there is to know!

jake
except for the part where I definitely don't
c'mon tell meeeee
I already know about vienna why not london

maria
you ARE vienna
that is not by any means the same

jake
sharing! is! caring! ((:

maria
suffering! alone! is! what! I! excel! at!

jake
gimme his name, at least

maria
no

jake
I'm an excellent secret keeper
all of the secrets?
I'm keeping them

maria
that is an absolute lie
but
thomas

jake
no
this is jake

maria
his name is thomas

jake
fancy
definitely london
thomas
not tom ??

maria
I mean yeah, tom
but
let's go with thomas for now bc when I think tom my heart goes 💞💝💖💖💘💘💓💓💗💕💘💝💝💞💕💘💓💓💗

jake
look at you
being all smitten
gross

maria
ikr!
it's like a sickness

jake
at least this love bug bs isn't infectious ig

maria
truth!

jake
but hey
tell me about thomas
if you wanna

maria
idk what to say
except that I love him and want to marry him and maybe have curly haired babies w him

jake
hA!

maria
excuse me
what —
what kind of reaction was that

jake
you involuntarily gave more info away

maria
?????

jake
CURLY hair

maria
shut up you know who he is anyway
I know that you know
I talked about him enough when we caught up

jake
I had a suspicion
but still I've gotta know more

maria
like what ??

jake
like what's so great about him, to have you moving on from the mighty vienna like this

maria
first off he doesn't say shit like that
secondly like idk
he just makes me feel a kind of way
and like, between me and you here, he's the one of my little trio that I least expected to fall for
dude just snuck up on me
and now he's got a hold of my heart and he doesn't even have a clue

jake
the tragic life of a millennial 🤧

maria
we're fuckin gen z, asshat

jake
ik ik bUT it didn't have the same flow to it 😬
let me live, good god, franc

maria
but yeah
idc
london is in the past

jake
hmmMmmMmm

maria
he is!

jake
then why have you been talking about everything to do w him in present tense

maria
what is this, lit class??
get outta here

jake
maria c'mon

maria
would you look at the time!
it's conspiracy theory o'clock
today, the internet believes that the boys I've loved before are the best kind of boys
good boys, one might say ;))

jake
who tf thinks that these sad songs you wrote are about dogs

maria
I mean, vienna kinda fits that criteria

jake
hEY

maria
jk you know ily
but seriously I've gtg joke
I have rumours to deny!!
and potentially when I fail at that, and manage to escalate everything further, a publicist to hire

jake
okay okay okay 🙄
oh oH!! don't forget to check your emails!! I'm sending my pictures from thailand over to you tonight

maria
omg neat!!
I can't wait kiddo

❀

AUTHOR'S NOTE: can we just all agree that jake is the coolest kind of ex-love that there is & that we luv him