The story of me and you

Chapter 13

Tord's P.O.V

Tom hummed and skipped out of the room, leaving me alone with Edd on the phone, "How'd you handle Tom last night?"

I let out a cough before answering with a raspy voice, "Set him in bed and gave him some piano music to listen to."

"So no trouble?"

I shook my head even though Edd couldn't see that, "It was all good until this morning." I don't give a damn if Tom gets pissed at me for Telling Edd, But he deserves to know.

"Oh yeah you threw up. You feeling better now?" Edd asked about Tom's lie.

Giving a huff of annoyance, I ran a hand through my messy hair, "I didn't vomit, Edd. Tom was lying to you."

Edd made a sound of shock, "What? Why would Tom do that?"

A rough cough escaped my lips, "A guy had came in somewhere in the night. He scared the living life out of Tom. Was about to rape him."

All that could be heard was Edd's hitched breathing for a good minute until he spoke, "I knew something wasn't right.... Tom sounded way too scared when he was talking to me earlier.... I knew I should've gone right away... Tom could've been hurt..."

"Hey, Edd." I rubbed my tired face, "Don't get so worked up over it. I was here to stop it and that's all that matters... Tom is never going to be hurt while I'm around..." The line was quite for a while, "Edd?"

"You like him don't you?" Edd asked suddenly, throwing me off completely. "Don't worry. Tom and I don't have a thing going on. I'm straight and that night was a foolish mistake. It was simply a one night stand. He's all yours for the taking. I'm out of the way. But..." Edd's voice went cold, "You hurt my best friend and we're going to have issues, Larkson... one step out of line and you're done for."

Shivers went down my spine, "O-Oh humm.... Tom doesn't like me that way so you're fine..." I laughed nervously, "I don't like him in a romantic way. And even at that I don't ever want to hurt Tom. He's my friend and all I want is for him to think as me as a friend. Nothing more nothing less."

"Uh-huh.... you see I'll try to believe what you said is true."

"It is true!" I yelled but then instantly went into a coughing fit.

Tom walked back in with a mug in hand, "Edd, don't make Tord cough please....." Tom took a seat next to me and pressed the mug into my hands, "Drink up now."

I took the mug from Tom, "So when are you gonna be here?" I asked Edd and took a sip of the tea, hissing at the burning sensation in my throat.

Tom sighed and took the mug from my hands and cleaned up some of the tea I had spit up, "Ya know it wouldn't burn that bad if you'd just stopped talking.... but I agree. Edd when are you getting here? Tord apparently needs to be treated as a child when sick." He gave me a small smirk and I glared at him,

"I'll be there in about 5 minutes. Tord I want you to be done with that tea by the time I get there." Edd's voice rang out before he cut the line.

I took the mug back in my hands and sipped it slowly, ignoring the burn in my throat. Tom took comfort in laying across my lap, head hanging off the edge of the bed. We stayed like that in complete silence. But the silence was getting rather boring, "I told Edd about the man."

Tom shot up and looked at me with wide eyes,  "You did what?!"

Taking a causal sip of the tea I gave Tom a bored look, "He needed to know, Tom. If you'd have been hurt or raped Edd would spend no time blaming it on me."