Diving Into Love, I Go - A Tom Daley Love Story

Chapter Seventeen

Erin's POV

Since 7pm stream of people came gushing through the front doors and into the front room to greet me 'Happy Birthday!'. It's my 19th birthday and even though i refused the idea of having a house party, Taylor went against my wishes and invited pretty much everyone from the University that we knew.

Taylor, who has an uncanny knack of decorating a room for any occasion, once again covered the house with coloured streamers and balloons. Above the mantle-piece was a banner saying 'Happy 19th Birthday Erin' and under it was a table full of cards and presents from friends.

"You look so nice Erin!' A pair of twins bounced up to me and hugged me tightly at the same time. Louise and Laura, one taking Law and the other Phsycology, were ones of the first few friends that I made at the start apart from Taylor and the boys.

"Where did you get that dress!" One of the twins gushed in a rather tipsy way.

"It's a gift from Taylor and she pretty much wrestled me into it!" The Twins laughed in unison when they envision what Taylor did to me a few hours before. The Twins hooked their arms around mine and dragged me into the middle of the room.

Taylor literally wrestled me into the short red summer dress this afternoon which I politely refused to wear. I have to admit it was rather pretty and I wanted to where it for another occasion but Taylor was determined to make me where it.

The dress was strapless and made out of chiffon material. It gathered around my waist and flares out rather slightly stopping half way down my thighs. I feel slight self-conscious about it being so short but it was such a lovely and simple dress that I didn't have the heart to change into something else.

Along with wrestling me into a dress Taylor also did my hair and make-up. Taylor pulled my hair up into a casual bun and curled a few loose locks of hair that framed my face and she applied light make-up to top my outfit of.

At first I felt a bit over dressed but as soon as I saw what everyone came in with, I sighed in relief that Taylor did not force me into skimpy and tight dresses.

The party was on flow when Tom finally arrived, an hour later. The music was on full blast and you can fell the bass bouncing off the walls, people were branched out all over the house with their drinks and the atmosphere in the house was very friendly.

It was lucky that Taylor saw Tom's car pull up in front of the house and heard him knock on the door.

"Tom! You made it!" I heard Taylor open the door and hugged him. Once Taylor has alcohol in her system, she's super friendly and hugs everyone she meets.

Tom wasn't sure if he could make it to the party for he was in London with the rest of his diving team for sponsorship deals. It was only a week after the Olympics and Tom is back to work sealing sponsorship contracts for the next Games. He's not in training at the minute for Andy gave the whole team the rest of the August off before easing back to traininf for the next competition.

As soon as I heard Tom reply I tried to get away politely from the group the Twins managed to drag me into. I haven't even stepped a few metres away when I was sucked into another group.

Tom stepped into the front room and everyone momentarily stopped and looked at him followed by eager whispers. Tom searched the room and when his eyes landed on me he smiled brightly.

"Is that Tom Daley?"

"The Bronze Medallist?"

"The one who asked for a re-dive!"

Tom looked as casual as ever. He wore a simple light blue shirt with few buttons undone and sleeves rolled up to his elbows and tucked into his jeans and grey converse casually. He wore no jewellry apart fron his usual gold ring and a blue and red woven band with an engraved silver plate that says 'Team GB'.