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Chapter 11
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I wake up to my phone buzzing. I roll over. whoever it is can take the hint. Not even 10 seconds later, it's buzzing again. Ugh it's way too early for this. I'm ignoring it. I roll over again and it starts buzzing again.

"Seriously!?" I whisper. Tom is dead asleep, he's a heavy sleeper something I envy because I'm such a light sleeper. I pick up my phone is it's blowing up. I have 5 missed calls from Darnell, my mom texted me twice and so did Zink. My stomach instantly drops. What the hell is wrong? I think of every worst case scenario.

I get up and walk to the bathroom and call Darnell.

"Zendaya, I've been calling you like crazy. Did you get my messages?"

"No what's going on? You're freaking me the hell out here" I raise my voice a little

"There's pictures and videos of you and Tom from last night. You guys aren't really doing anything, and they're not bad at all but a couple of blog sites have taken those pictures and ran with it. I sent you the link"

"Shit"

"It's not bad, honestly. It just looks like you're just friends hanging out. It must be a slow press day cause they're reaching with those photos"

"Okay let me call you back" I tell him. I hang up and take a second to look at the links Darnell sent me

Co stars Tom Holland and Zendaya were seen out and about in New York City Monday night, grabbing ice cream and looking pretty comfortable with one another. Rumors have been flying that the two have been dating for some time now, and they've both denied those claims however something is definitely going on with these two from the looks of it. 
There's a few pictures of us walking and laughing. Ice cream in hand.

I look through my texts

Zink
Those pictures are nothing. Don't stress about it like I know you will

Mom
Call me

The people who took those pictures are creeps! Brush it off

I look though all the pictures and they're right, It's nothing really. I think with us already being rumored to be dating it probably doesn't help the situation at all. I'm kind of freaking out though. I feel like as soon as people find out that we're dating then it'll be a shit show.  That's all anyone is gonna care about when we do press and or walk a red carpet and to be honest it's nobody's business but ours.

I'm sitting on the counter in the bathroom when Tom walks in, he's only wearing his boxer briefs and he looks too good for someone who just rolled out of bed. 

"What's the matter?" He asks as he walks up to me. I hand him my phone with the article pulled up. He looks at it, reading it carefully.

"That's nothing" he hands the phone back to me. He says it like it's nothing

"It's nothing?" I raise my voice slightly.

"I mean they have nothing. Its not like we were holding hands and kissing or anything in these pictures. I don't think it's that big of a deal"  he says and shrugs

"Of course you don't think it's a big deal, you would have loved it if pictures of us kissing or holding hands were front page news" I throw in his face

"Is that so bad Zendaya? I want the whole world to know that you're mine. I love you so fucking much but I also respect you and your wishes to keep this private. I would never do anything to jeopardize that"

For someone who keeps everything bottled in like myself, I'm surprised when tears fall from my eyes. He doesn't necessarily love keeping this private but he's not once ever questioned or complained about it.