easier - tom holland

// 46 \\

time skip

late november 2019

phone call

kellan
tom

"just a couple of those.
not too many."

"got it. anything else?"

"did you grab
marshmallows?"

"no, should i?"

"uh yeah! do you not
normally buy
marshmallows at the
store?"

"not really."

"babe thank god you
met me. you've been
missing out."

"are we gonna buy them
every time we go to the
store now?"

"um, yeah."

"alright i'm at the baking
aisle. what kind of
marshmallows?"

"do they have the
jumbo ones?"

"yeah. they have some
pink ones too. they're
strawberry i think."

"ooo, yeah get those."

"anything else?"

"nah, i think that's it."

"alright i'll see you at
hom-- your place."

"love you."

"love you too."

"bye, baby."

real life

"Kelly! Tom's getting marshmallows, right?" Evelyn shouted from down the hall.

"Yeah!"

"Cool! Is he almost here?"

"I don't know. I'll text him."

Kellan picked up his phone from its spot next to his laptop and opened the messages app.

kelly 💚
hey baby, how close are you?

tommy 🕷
can't do phone sex rn babe
i'm driving

kelly 💚
ffs i meant how close to the
house are you

tommy 🕷
oh lmao
5 mins probably

kelly 💚
cool
love u

tommy 🕷
love u 2

"He'll be here in like five minutes!"

Kellan set his phone down and went back to editing his most recent vlog. There were a lot of moments he'd had to cut out because his camera caught way too many shots of Ashlee and Nick making out. He figured he already had plenty of that in his other videos.

Fifteen minutes later, he was starting to worry about Tom. So he texted him again.

kelly 💚
baby?
u okay?

When he got no response, he assumed Tom was just trying to be a responsible driver, so he let it be for a while.

But half an hour later, with still no response, he started pacing back and forth in his bedroom with his phone in hand.

Eventually, it rang.

INCOMING CALL FROM NIKKI HOLLAND

ACCEPT      DECLINE

kellan
nikki

"nikki, is everything
okay?"

"kellan, i think you'd
better sit down for this."

"what's going on? is
tom okay?"

"he's just been admitted
to the hospital."

"oh, god."

"he's in critical condition
right now, and we don't
know what's wrong, or
what happened, but dom
and i are headed to the
airport right now, and we
thought we'd call you to
let you know."

"oh my god, okay, i'm
leaving right now.
what's the address?"

"i'll text it to you."

Kellan slid into flip flops as he talked to Nikki. He grabbed his keys and rushed out of his bedroom and down the hall.

"Eve, we gotta go now."

"What? Why?" Confusion was evident on her face.

"We have to go to the hospital a few miles away. Get your shoes on, and let's go."

"That's not an answer," she mumbled as she paused the second season finale of Switched at Birth.

"Eve, come on. This is serious."

She slipped her own shoes on and walked out the door. "Will you at least tell me what's going on?"

"Tom's in the hospital."

A/N
I love murdering y'all's hearts just when you thought everything was gonna be okay. It's my favourite pastime.

Btw this is about six months into their relationship

Anygay, there's like fourteen chapters left woot woot