The Dysfunction Of Evan: Books 1-3 Collection

32. Lights and Carpets

As soon as Tom and I ended our kiss, I turned and looked straight at Holly. I slowly walked over to him. 

"If you tell a single soul about this, I will take that as full consent to make your life a living hell." I said sticking my finger in his face. He slowly inhaled and got wide eyes. 

"Yes ma'am." He whimpered. "You are two hundred percent clear." He looked past me at Tom. "Hey pal, you ah, you wanna call her off?"

I felt Tom's hands on my arms. "Alright love, that's enough threatening the guests for one day." He said leaning in to kiss my cheek. "But Holly, I agree, a living hell." 

"Man, you two are scary now that your married." Holly said. Tom and I laughed. I turned my attention away from him and looked around.

My aunt and uncle were introducing themselves to Tom's family; Liam, Miley, and Chris were talking to Ben; Luke was discussing things with Sadie, who I wasn't expecting to see until tomorrow; I saw Maisie engaged in conversation with Ken, and I saw a few people I knew by face and name, but had not met yet. Eddie Redmayne, Tessa Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Elizabeth Debicki. 

"How in the world did you manage to get so many people here?" I asked Tom. 

"Well, dinner was supposed to be more than a family event, I just asked them to come a couple hours earlier." He said, guiding me over to his cluster of friends. He introduced me to each of them. 

"Congratulations." They said in turn, smiling. We chatted for a while until Chris came over. 

"I thought maybe you two would want some pictures?" He said, holding his phone up.

"Your dress would look amazing out in the garden." Tom said. "We can see if my mum has a stole you can borrow." 

Fifteen minutes later, I was wrapped in a white fox faux fur stole, wrapped in Tom's arms in the back garden. We did the traditional corny poses, then he plucked me up and set me on a low tree branch. He stood behind me and held me tightly. 

"I don't know how you did it, but thank you for getting Chris here." He said, emotion clogging his throat. 

"Liam and Miley did all the work, they didn't tell him where he was going until they were on the plane." I said, turning my head. 

"Well, I should thank them as well." He said kissing me. "This is the best gift I could get, besides you." 

"It's slightly better than me," I said with a teasing smile. "You can ship him back to Queensland, you're stuck with me for life." 

"I'm perfectly fine with that." He whispered. 

"I can honestly say, I've never seen you so happy, Tom." Chris said, walking over. 

"I'll let you guys talk." I whispered. Tom helped me down. 

"Go warm up, your practically frozen." He said to me. 

"As long as I don't get poisoned." I teased. He rolled his eyes. 

"This is going to be my life now, isn't it?" 

"Yep. For years and years and years. I can't wait to have new material." I said with an evil grin. I pointed at myself. "Slytherin."

Tom laughed as I went inside. As soon as I opened the door, I was whisked up in a hug by Ken. 

"Congratulations!" He said squeezing me tightly. 

"Thank you." I said. "You know, you're responsible this. If you hadn't decided to make this movie, this wouldn't have happened."