Stitches

Part.9

The sun shined down at you as you moved your hand in waves to the movement on the wind, your smile shined brightly causing Tom to grin happily as he kept his hands on the wheel. "Keep your eyes on the road Holland" you said glancing sideways at him, he chuckled before turning his full attention towards the road. "How can I, when you're in the car?" you laughed as you rolled your eyes. You all arrived at the beach and set up your umbrella and coolers, all the boys went running into the water as soon as they dropped everything, you sat on the beach chair in the sun while reading a book, before Tom took you by your hips and carried you into the water as you squirmed and yelled. You all played in the water for what seemed like hours and took some food breaks before playing some frisbee, it was getting dark so the boys started packing up, Tom just put the last bag in the car before seeing you standing on the beach with a towel around your shoulders while looking off into the sunset. The closer he walked to you the more tears he saw form in your eyes, "Hey darling, what's wrong?" you jumped slightly before Tom placed his hand on your cheek and wiping away your tears. "I'm scared Tom, you've been my best friend forever. And after spending this amazing day with you I-...." you stopped taking a deep shaky breath "What happens when we grow up? What if we won't be the same?" Toms heart sank to the pit of his stomach, he moved your hair behind your ear before wrapping his arms around you. "That will never happen, I'll always be here." you sniffled before moving out of his arms, "Promise?" you asked sticking out your pinky, "Forever" he said chuckling and wrapping his pinky around your, "And Always."

***

You slowly opened your eyes to find yourself wrapped up in Toms arms as soft snores came from him, you smiled slightly before memories from yesterday flooded into your mind causing panic to set into your stomach, you wiggled out of his arms causing him to shift. You debated whether to leave or stay but quickly decided to get out of there as soon as possible, you pulled on your shoes and slowly started turning the doorknob, "Y/n?" Toms raspy morning voice caused you to jump slightly, you cursed at yourself before turning to see to Tom stretching out his arms as he yawned, "Where are you going?" "Well-I-uh, I was heading back to my trailer..." you said pointing to the door as you avoided eye contact, "Wouldn't your boyfriend be there?" he said sitting on the bed raising an eyebrow as he watched avoid eye contact. "Yeah, well I have to get back." you opened the door already heading out the door, but before you could make another movement Tom slammed the door and stood in front of you blocking the way. "Tom. I need to go take a shower." you lied, "No. Your boyfriend is there, and judging by what he did last night" he eyes fell onto the large purple bruise on your wrist, "I don't trust him. I don't want you getting hurt." you sighed looking down at the ground, you knew there was no point arguing with him. You still didn't make eye contact with him once, but you could feel his eyes solemnly trained on you, "You can take a shower here, I'll get you a shirt."

***

You got out of the shower and pulled on one of Toms hoodies, once you pulled the hoodie over your head his familiar cologne filled your senses causing your heart to flutter, but you quickly brushed the feeling off before heading out of the bathroom.

You walked into the small kitchen area to see some scrambled eggs and bacon on the table, "Take a seat." he said while putting one last plate of eggs down and motioning towards the table, you hesitantly sat down. He loved seeing you in hoodies, he loved it even more when it was his, so he couldn't help but smile when he saw you in it. You both sat in silence eating the food, you still made no eye contact but Tom would keep looking over at you to see if you would even bother to look at him. "Why did you do all of this?" the froze and the question caught you off guard, but you knew it was going to come someday, you just didn't want it to be today or ever. You finally look up at him, he had stern eye contact and his face was hard, but you could tell that he was also on the verge of tears. "Tom. I just needed to..." "No! When you're having a hard time, you come to your family, you don't run away and ignore them! Unless..." You felt a large lump on the back of your throat, you swallowed trying to keep your nerves at ease. You looked at the ground as realization hit him, "You wouldn't leave your family... unless there was something you didn't want to tell them... something you didn't want to tell us." he looked up at you to see your eyes wide with fear, "Y/n? What is it? What are you not telling me!?" you flinched at his demanding tone, but his face showed a whole different side, panic, fear, and anxiety. "I can't do this Tom!" you quickly stood up from the table and made your way towards the door while covering your face. "No! You can't run this time!" you pulled you by your arm causing your puffy eyes and tear covered face to be revealed, "I can't Tom. I don't want to hurt you!" you sprinted out the door, but even as you ran further away he could still hear your sobs.

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Tom searched for you for what felt like hours before realizing where you went. The ocean was always the one place you would run away to, to think, to dream, to cry. But there was no ocean nearby, the closest body of water was a lake not to far from there. He quickly leaped into his car driving to the lake which was his closest bet to where you were.

He towards the lake and stopped as soon as she saw you, you were shaking out of fear and tears still ran down your face as you kept your eyes on the water as Tom walked closer to you. "There is no running from this anymore is there?" "No. But I'm still here for you." He gently took your hand interlocking his hand into yours, you squeezed his hand tightly as you sighed. "That car accident fucked me up really badly Tom, one day when you were out of the room. The doctors told me, I only have a couple years to live..." Toms heart broke as he heard that the love of his life wouldn't be with him for all his life, tears started forming in his eyes as he squeezed your hand tightly. "I don't understand." "See this is why I just ran away. This was going to break you, and when you're broken, so am I. I've just learned to just accept the fact that I'm going to die." "No. I'm not going to leave you, I'll be strong for you. I'm going to stand by your side till the end..." You sighed shaking your head before meeting his warm eyes. "You've always wanted kids, a happy family, a big happy family...you can't have that with me..." "No? But I can have you, you're all I need. I love you." you smiled before wrapping your arms around his neck as he wrapped his around your waist, your lips met in a soft, and loving kiss. "I'll be by your side love. Forever and Always."