Adore

Chapter 23

After our karaoke session, we hung out in the back of the pub for awhile longer.

I pulled my phone from my back pack to check my notifications. I had some messages from friends back home, boring emails and other stuff.

I had a random instagram message from this guy i used to date asking how I was. I read the message but didn't feel like replying and checked out my page.

My profile was mainly photos of my dog, nature shots and stuff and some selfies here and there.

Tom leaned into me checking out what I was doing.

"You really don't use them much do you" He said with a laugh as he looked at my phone.

"Nah not really, I just forget to post stuff"

"Can I have your phone for a sec" He asked, I passed it over to him.

After a minute or so he handed it back to me.

"You're following all of our accounts now" He said with a smile.

"Oh cool!" I said and tapped on their icons and viewed their stories from today.

"Lets get a photo" He said to us. We all shifted around a bit and managed fo get in the frame.

The photo was great, we were all smiling widely and looked really happy. Tom took a few different photos and we made all sorts of stupid faces.

Tom chose one of the photos to post. Harrison was smiling, Sam and Harry had their arms around each others shoulders smiling widely.

Tom had a silly pout on his face, winking at the camera. I was holding up my drink, a hand on my hat with my head titled sticking out my tongue.

My phone chimed next to me and I unlocked it and went to instagram to see the photo.

"Cheers" he captioned it. Within minutes there was thousands of likes and a few hundred comments. Most of them gushing about how cute Tom looked. Some were about the other guys and a few asking who I was.

I refreshed my profile and my jaw felt like it had hit the floor. I had gained over 250 followers and that number was growing rapidly.

A few of the comments were people tagging friends and talking about the colour of my hair and I'm pretty sure they were referring to the party montage that Harry had posted.

People were tagging me in comments asking who I was and how I knew the guys. I decided against replying to anyone, not sure id people would believe what I said anyways.

"Wow, your fans are very.. uh, enthusiastic?" I said.

"They're pretty great" Tom gushed with a big smile. I could tell his fan base was very important to him.

"The thirst is real though" I laughed reading some of the comments about wanting to have their babies. But they weren't just talking about Tom.

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We'd been sat talking and drinking for a few hours now. We'd also swapped embarrassing stories which had me in tears of laughter.

The bartender had called last round but we'd had our fill for the night and decided it was time to head home.

We rugged up in our coats and left the pub. Calling out our thanks to the bartender and waiters as we left.

I shivered a little bit as we stepped outside, the temperature had dropped significantly. Tom wrapped an arm around my shoulders pulling me into a side hug. He rubbed his hand up and down my arm making me feel a bit warmer.