“Good morning sleepy head” Tom says as I walk down the stairs. He was sitting on the sofa in only his blue and grey plaid boxers and from up here on the top step I have a perfect view of his sculpted abs. I lingered on the step for a while biting my lower lip thoughts of last night filling my mind. How the hell does this boy manage to look so drop dead sexy at not even seven in the morning while I looked like an absolute train-wreck: my hair frizzing everywhere, makeup smudged, and chilling in the same oversized shirt as last night.
After a minute I finally make my full departure down the stairs and hop the couch to be sitting next to him. “Good morning to you too sexy” I say as I run my fingers through his messy bed head. My hand slowly travels down his torso to trace the outline of his abs. I lean my head in closer to him, my mouth right next to his ear as I whispered “Let’s...” I gently kissed the sweet spot on his neck causing a low moan to escape his perfect lips. “…make…” I pause leaving him to only feel my warm breath against his neck. “…BREAKFAST!” A disapproving look instantly hit his face.
“You’re such a little tease, Lace” he says as I back away from him.
“I’m sowwy, Tommy” I lean back into him and give a quick peck on his lips “Does that make it better?” I ask still using my childish voice.
“Ehh I guess it will do for now” I can still see the dissatisfaction in his eyes. “But you’re going to pay for this after practice” A smirk quickly forms on his lips and in one swift motion he picks me up and carries me away into the kitchen for our lovely breakfast of coffee and Cap’n Crunch cereal.
*
As Tom and I walk into the pool I instantly spot the girl with the perfect blonde ponytail I was looking for: Tonia Couch.
I give Tom a quick kiss and then say “I’ll see you at workouts” before we part ways as he enters the boys changing room and I make my way over to Tonia.
“So I heard we had a nice little sleepover last night?” She laughs and I start to feel heat radiating out of my cheeks thinking she’s making a comment about Tom and me. “No, I didn’t mean it like that, Laci. I meant us” She says quickly noticing my newly red cheeks.
“Ohh.. got it” I awkwardly laugh, wishing my cheeks would return back to a normal color. “And yeah, yeah we did. Best fake sleepover ever! Thank you so so so much for agreeing to help”
“It was really nothing: you’re like a little sister to me, I’d do anything to help. But if you don’t mind me asking how was the real sleepover” She asks raising her right eyebrow as she eyes my lovely outfit courtesy of Tom: a pair of black basketball shorts, that due to my lack of height were down to my mid-calf, and a red T-shirt from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which surprisingly fit, but then again it was almost four years old.
“It was…” a giant smile crept out onto my face just thinking about Tom and last night “wonderful”
“Aww my little Munchkin is totally in love!” She skipped in a small circle around me; I just shook my head and laughed. She was so freakin’ ridiculous all the time, but it was one of the many reasons I loved her. “What’s with the head shaking, Miss Laci Rae? You can’t tell me you’re not one hundred percent in love with Mr. Thomas Robert Daley. I know you waaaayyyyyy to well for you to lie to me.”
“That’s not what I’m shaking my head at I know I’m completely in love with him. I’m shaking my head at you, Tonia!” She stops skipping.
“Me? What did I do?” She pretends to be offended as she puts her hands on her hips.
“You’re just ridiculous. I told you December of last year that I was in love with Tom, it’s now July and you’re all ‘aww my little munchkin’-ing me now”
We both laugh remembering that cold December night very vividly: Tonia and I had been sitting in her bedroom drinking tea after practice when I suddenly burst into tears as I checked twitter on my phone. She asked me what was wrong I just slid the phone across the bed to her; the screen was just filled with all Tomia shippers and their opinions on how they’d only ever accept her as his girlfriend. The answer was pretty obvious, but Tonia kept asking me why it bothered me so much. After about five minutes I finally blurted out “I’m fucking in love with him, Tonia!” Like any older sister would have, Tonia calmed me down and once I was finally able to stop balling like a baby I told her everything. She was the first to find out about Tom and me because at that point no one had known about our six month relationship since we had both been afraid of saying anything to Chris. She convinced me that everything would be alright with Chris, and gave me all the advice I would ever need about boys; having an ‘older sister’ whose five years older than you and not actually related to you had its major perks.
“In December, you we’re a little sixteen year old girl crying hysterically on my bed about being in love with a boy you’d been dating for not even six months. You two had been hiding you’re relationship from everyone, I didn’t know that anything serious had been occurring between my two favorite munchkins; I only thought you two had a one-time hook up when I walked in on you two a couple months earlier .”
I smiled remembering when Tonia walked in on Tom and me. It had been at the very start of mine and Tom’s relationship and also my first time hooking up with a boy; I was so nervous I would do something wrong and ruin everything; I remember physically shaking when Tom suggested ditching the party for a little bit and going upstairs to my room. He had just finished telling me we didn’t have to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with and we began making out on my bed. It had been the first time I felt the butterflies that I still get to this day when we kiss and from that moment I knew Tom and I had something special. Things soon began to move along as Tom started undoing the buttons on my shirt and then suddenly it happened: Tonia opened the door to my room. Tom sprang off me faster than I had ever seen him move before in his life and I jumped off my bed, my shirt still partially open, to chase Tonia down the upstairs hallway before she could reach the stairs. I remember begging her not to say anything to Chris. She promised me she wouldn’t but that if I didn’t want him to be suspicious I should probably fix me shirt; we both just laughed.
“But now look at you! Here you are all grown up at seventeen and I know you truly mean it. You’ve come clean to your brother and everyone else who loves the both of you very dearly. It’s been more than a year since you two started dating and you still get that stupid grin on your face whenever you think or talk about him. It’s not sappy puppy love anymore, it’s the real thing”
I felt tears well up behind my eyes as I nodded in agreement with everything Tonia had just said. “He’s my forever”
“I know he is Munchkin, I know he is” She smiled and pulled me into a hug, just as we were about to break she whispered in my ear “Don’t let the other girls know, but when you two get married I call being your maid of honor”
“Yes Tonia, that spot is most definitely taken by you.” I yelled to her as I ran towards the changing room to put on my swimsuit and get ready for today’s practice.
AN: So i don't know how i feel about this chapter. I just wanted to get something out because people had been asking and I wanted to move forward with the story. It was just that no matter how hard i tried i just couldn't get this chapter to work out in a way i wanted with my extreme writers block. I'm sorry if the chapter sucks, I promise the next one will be better
