Stitches

Part 7

Tom sat in a comfortable sofa dressed up in a suit, outside the door in which he would be having a meeting in a couple minutes, the room was relatively dark but it didn't bother him as he scrolled through his Instagram. He felt horrible that he wasn't able to make it to your graduation, but he was going to try to make it up to you as soon as his boss let him off work, "Just a couple more minutes Mr. Holland, he's having a meeting on the phone," said the Assistant as she nodded and showed a fake smile, "It's fine." Tom sighed before going back to his phone, he started scrolling through some photos of you and Tom as teenagers running through the ocean water while splashing each other, his lips curved into a smile as he looked at you. He missed you more than anything, all he wanted to do was shower in kisses and hold you tight. Whenever he called you he would ask how you were and you would say "good" but you never sounded good, he knew you well enough to know if you were lying, but whenever he asked you what was going on you would say "nothing' and quickly change the topic.

His thumb hovered over the call button above your name before Haz's name and number popped up on the screen and his ringtone went off. "Hey Mate, what's up?" he heard a shaky breath on the other side "Tom?" "Yeah, mate you alright? What's going on?" Haz sighed heavily "Its Y/n mate, she's in the hospital" Toms eyes widened as his whole body felt weak and motionless "They was a car accident...they don't know if she's going to make it..."

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You opened your eyes the blinding bright lights and an enormous sweep of pain through your whole body, you move your head slightly to see yourself covered in blood and Harrison running alongside you, he looked down at you with fear and worry in his eyes, you opened your to try and say something but found your mouth to be extremely dry. "Tom, where's Tom?" your voice was raspy and weak, Haz flinched slightly before meeting your eyes again, "He's not here, but he'll he here, stay strong." you squeezed your eyes shut as your eyelids left heavy and the darkness consumed your vision, "Tommy..." the doctors then rolled you away into the surgery room leaving Haz standing alone in the bright hallway.

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Tom pushed through the tall hospital doors and ran through the hallway until he was met with Haz and Nikki sitting in the waiting room, his hair was chaotic and tangled, and his clothes were extremely wrinkled. Niki stood up as soon as she saw him, he ran into her arms wrapping his arms around her, "It will be ok Tom, its ok." she soothed him as tears formed in his eyes, he let go of her and turned towards Haz, he didn't look the best either but not as bad as Tom, he pulled Haz into a hug as they felt each others misery. "How is she? Is she ok?" Haz sighed as pulled out of the hug, "She got out of surgery hours ago, she hasn't woken up yet. And they don't know if or when she will..." Tom sighed looking down at the ground as more tears formed in his eyes, he felt nothing but pain and guilt. "Tom... she'll be ok. This isn't your fault, she's my best friend too, but you can't pin this on yourself." Tom sighed running his hand over his face, "But if I was here, and not there, then she would have been ok..." "Tom stop! Blaming yourself isn't going to make her better." Tom ignoring his point as he was lost in his own thoughts, "Can I see her?" Haz nodded and motioned towards the room in which you were in.

Tom entered the room seeing your bruised and weak body on the bed as tubes ran into your body, she shut his eyes and more pain and guilt took over his body. He walked over to your bed slowly reached out taking your hand and bringing it to his lips. "I did this to you, I'm so sorry. If I came, if I was there then you would be ok. I love you more than anything, please come back to me..." tears started running down his face, as he gripped your hand tightly sobbing and breaking down next to you, never knowing if you were coming back to him.

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You could feel and hear everything, you could feel him staying by your side everyday, you could hear him begging you to come back to him, you could feel him holding you and kissing you as he sobbed next to you. You wanted nothing more than to run your hand through his hair, kiss him and tell him it was ok, but no matter how hard you tried to move you never did. It was just you trapped in the darkness, the worst part, you were trapped with your thoughts, just you and your thoughts. And no one to share them with, and to tell you how stupid they really were.

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Months have passed and you still laid with your thoughts in the darkness, Tom still came to you everyday and stayed by your side. He stayed by you so much his mother had to force him to go take of himself, Haz came in and told you how much they needed you more than anything. But you still were there, in the darkness. It was one day when Tom was in your room, he sat on the couch looking over at you, your face no emotion, no reaction, no smile, no smile or laugh that he so preciously loved, the laugh that made his stomach erupt into butterflies everytime. You were his girl, the girl from his dreams, the girl from his childhood. He came up to you looking at your motionless body, "Please come back to me baby, I need you... I-I don't know if I can do this anymore..." he started crying before leaning onto your stomach, burying his face into you, gently. "Im not strong enough..." with that you knew you or he couldn't do this anymore, you used all your strength through your whole body to move your hand and run your hand through his messy curls. "You're the strongest person I know." He jerked up meeting your tired and teary eyes, he smiled as tears ran down his face before pulling you into a hug.

You were starting to feel better as weeks passed, and your ideas from the darkness still in your head, the ideas that no one was there to turn down. Tom sat in your room quietly scrolling through his phone as you sat on the bed eating your food, you felt guilt swept over you, you slowly put the utensils down and moved the food away. "Tom..." "Yes Darling?" you motioned for him to sit down next to you and so he did as he put his phone away. "Tommy. I love you more than anything, you've done so much for me, you know that right?" "Yeah?" he said raising an eyebrow in confusion. "I can't do this Tom... so much has happened here, and there are so many memories here I just..." "Where are you going with this?" you looked up at him with tears running down your face, "I leaving to America, as soon as Im healed, there is just to many painful memories." He looked at you as you broke his heart in a million little pieces, his eyes red with tears threatening to run down his face, but he knew if he started crying now he would never stop. "I'm sorry Tommy..."

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You left to America as soon as you were healed, leaving behind memories, and the only family you had left to love. You fulfilled your thought from the darkness, the darkness that controlled your thoughts and body at the time. The darkness still followed everywhere, you didn't know what it was but it brought back painful memories, guilt, and worry. Did you do the right thing? Or were you selfish the leave behind the only people you loved?

Tom built a career for himself as an amazing actor, he distracted himself with work to forget the painful memories. Though he missed more than anything, and wondered why you left the way you did, and if it was him that caused you to do so. A couple years have gone by and he's gotten to know amazing people, whom he's worked alongside of. He even got a role for a new movie he was very excited to work for, yep he still stayed the same bubbly person he was. He made his way towards set the next day to meet the cast members for the first time, he walked up to the director giving him a smile, "Hey! Tom we have the lead actress for you to meet, you'll be working alongside with her!" "Yeah of course I'll be happy to meet her!" he followed the director across the set, "Tom this is Y/n Y/l/n." his heart stopped as he heard that name, before he was ready you turn around to face him looking better than ever with long curly hair styled perfectly, and a sparkle in your eyes. Your smile fades as you come face to face with the only man you ever loved, the man that you thought you'd never see again.