#Thomas i’m looking at you 👁👄👁
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rosesradio · 2 years ago
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it is kinda wild when full grown adults are like “but Harry Potter is my happy warm bubbly safe place 🥺🥺—but just to be clear this is a safe space for the entire lgbtq+ community” like. just pick a new fandom! do people not even realize the insane amount of undivided attention hp has gotten over the past 25+ years? Do you know how many wizard school fantasy books there are? Just read a new one. You can sacrifice a book series if it means your fans know you have their best interest in mind. The fact that you can’t handle dropping a book series in which the author actively spreads hate against trans/nb people just bc you like the book series says more about you than you think
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albed-hoe · 3 years ago
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Hi, I really loves your works. It's really good read them.
I was wondering if I could get Thoma x (sub) shy!m!reader having *ahem* their first time? They just cuddle and kissing until Thoma realizes reader is 'hard' ?
☆Thank you☆
I'm Sure
Characters: Thoma x Male Reader
Summary: Thoma gives reader his first time
Warnings: !NSFW, MINORS/FEM READERS DNI!
Word Count: 1630
A/n: Yeah…👁👄👁
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The light of the moon shone through the small opening of the curtains, draping itself across the two of you. You were both lying down in bed, Thoma facing you and you facing him, loving gazes and fleeting kisses being exchanged between the two of you. You talked about anything and everything, topics as simple as how your day had been, or what was bothering you. Eventually, Thoma boldly declared his love of your eye color, reveling in your flustered reaction from the compliment.
“Th-Thoma, stop that.” You muttered, looking away from him and trying to make yourself smaller.
“Aww, you’re so cute, [Y/N]! Come here!” He pulled you flush against his body, putting one of his legs between yours and wrapping the other over you. You froze when he shifted between your legs, him not noticing your reddening cheeks or growing arousal.
“Thoma… P-Please, you know I don’t like attention like that.” You tried diverting his attention.
“We both know I won’t stop until I get a kiss. Come on, [Y/N]! Gimme your lips!” he exclaimed, puckering his lips, and closing his eyes. His leg kept subconsciously rubbing between your thighs, only making you unbearably turned on.
“Th-Thoma, I- Help…” Upon hearing the strain in your voice and feeling a particular hardness against his leg, Thoma snapped his eyes wide open, a blush beginning to grow on his face as well.
“Oh! I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to… Do that!” He pulled himself out of your embrace, embarrassed, standing off the bed and turning away.
“I-I’ll take my leave now! You can use the bathroom if you want to. It’s right there.” He began making his way to the door when you jumped out of the bed and ran after him.
“Thoma wait!” You squeaked out, grabbing his wrist before he could reach the door. He turned back around to be met with you looking up to him, face beet red. You almost immediately looked to the floor out of embarrassment.
“P-Please help me…” You whispered to him. His face was now almost as red as yours as he realized what you were asking him to do. “I-I want my first to be with… You.”
“[Y/N]…” He lifted your chin to make you look in his eyes. His expression was now calm, looking at you with adoration. “Are you sure you want this?” You thought about this being your first time, then the answer came to you when you saw the look in his eyes, assuring you he would take care of you in every way possible.
“I’m sure, Thoma.” You breathed, before he slowly leaned in to capture your lips in the most passionate kiss you had ever had. You let go of his wrist to grip both hands on his shirt, as his slowly roamed across your torso.
“A-ah…” You moaned lowly when he slid both hands up your shirt, beginning to caress your hardening nipples.
“Take this off for me please, [Y/N].” He whispered beside your ear, making you obediently take off your shirt while he took off his.
For him. Damn, you’d do absolutely anything for him. He had you wrapped around all his fingers, at this point. After both your tops hit the floor, Thoma began making his way back towards you. Your hands almost automatically began roaming across his chest as you gawked over his muscles and scars.
“*Huff* Woah…” You breathed, making him chuckle. He began kissing your neck, making his way to your collar bones, reveling in your low moans as he went from one shoulder to the other. He began working on his pants, letting them and his underwear fall to the ground, exposing his fully erect length. Making his way back up to your lips, he began palming you through your shorts.
“Th-Thoma!” You squeaked, already lost in the pleasure of his hands working through your clothing.
“Y-You look beautiful, love…” He huffed, beginning to undo your pants, letting them and your underwear pool at your feet. Your length sprung out in the air, already leaking, and demanding more attention. Thoma didn’t waste a second on running his hands up and down your length. Each stroke made you weaker in the knees, almost making you fall to the floor. The only thing avoiding that in the moment was Thoma’s strong arm, wrapped around your waist to hold you up.
“[Y/N]… Don’t be shy. You can touch me too.” He said, offering you a genuine smile. Your breath hitched in your throat when you looked down at his length. Barely mustering up the courage, you reached out and began stroking the underside of his cock with your palm. You flinched upon hearing a low groan but were reassured when you felt a kiss just beneath your earlobe and a quiet ‘it’s okay’.
After a while of standing, Thoma pulled away and chuckled when he heard you whine and saw your desperate expression, begging for him to keep going.
“It’s okay [Y/N], just gimme a second.” He reassured, opening a drawer in the nightstand to pull out a bottle of lube and a condom, the sight of both objects making you embarrassed. Thoma made his way back, sitting on the edge of the bed.
“Come here, dear.” He said with a smile, his arms outstretched to you. You obliged, straddling your legs over his lap while facing him. He poured some lube in his hand, lathering up his fingers and turned his gaze back to you.
“Alright dear, this may hurt a bit, but you have to trust me. I’ll go as slow as you need.” He said, his expression turning serious. You nodded in understanding, flinching at the foreign feeling of a finger entering you. Thoma placed gentle kisses against your shoulder, as he pushed his finger deeper in you, trying to loosen you up as slowly as possible.
When you were used to one, Thoma added another finger, then two, stretching your entrance as much as he could. The moans you were letting out were definitely not helping him keep his control. He then curled his fingers forward, hitting your prostate and sending your hips forward as you let out a loud cry of pleasure.
“Th-Thoma! I-I’m gonna-!” As he felt you tightening around his fingers, he pulled them out, making you let out a loud whine, your hips bucking forward in an attempt to cum.
“It’s okay, [Y/N], lie down on the bed for me.” You nodded, crawling your way over to the middle. As you turned around, you spotted Thoma rolling the condom down his length and pouring more lube along it. Seeing him stood in the middle of the room with the moonlight casting shadows across his body must have been the most beautiful sight to have ever graced your eyes. You snapped out of your trance when he was hovering over you, looking at you lovingly.
“Everything alright?” He asked, earning a nod of approval. “Alright, this may hurt a little, but trust me, it’ll feel better soon.” He told you, taking his length and lining it up at your entrance. You flinched, feeling him push the head inside, sighing as he continued sliding his length into your ass. Hearing you squeak when he bottomed out, he looked back up and kissed the crown of your head.
“Let me know when I can move.” He said, kissing you on the lips next. You took a few seconds to catch your breath and adjust to his girth before finally looking back up at him.
“O-Okay. You can m-move.” Having your full trust in him ignited a flame within him that seemed to strengthen your bond together. He began moving slowly, earning small gasps and moans from you as you adjusted to his thrusts. The sight of you beneath him with tears in your eyes had him holding himself back from going feral on you.
After a few minutes of slow thrusts, he felt you loosening around him. He began angling his thrusts upward, hitting the head of his cock right against your prostate, ripping loud moans from your throat. He stopped thrusting to slide his arm under your back and lift you back up, making you sit on his cock while facing him. Thoma grabbed your hips with one hand, gripping your dick with the other while looking up into your eyes with pure love.
A few minutes passed with you bouncing up and down on his length, when Thoma felt himself reaching his high.
“Th-Thoma, I’m close!” You whispered, making him speed up his thrusts and his strokes.
“M-Me too, [Y/N]… Can you cum with me?” He asked, earning your nod of approval. The lewd sounds of skin slapping against skin and your moans echoing across the room were driving him crazy, making him lost in pleasure.
“Thoma… I’m… I’m gonna- AHH!” You screamed, squirting your cum all over his chest, while he filled you up at the same time. His loud moans kept pulling more ropes of semen from your dick before you began coming back down from your orgasm. You looked back down at your boyfriend with hazy eyes, kissing him deeply as you felt his cum leaking out of you.
You let your head fall into the crook of his neck as Thoma pulled out of your ass, making you let out a small moan at the feeling of being empty. With his cum running down the back of your leg, he picked you up, wrapping your legs around his waist and he made his way to the bathroom.
“Let’s get you cleaned up with a nice, warm bath, how does that sound?” Hearing your hum of content, Thoma laughed and kissed your cheek, your lips pulling up into a small smile.
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Um, anyways! Daddy Thoma!!🤪 Intimate sex is just… Ugh🥴
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charnelhouse · 3 years ago
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Sexting the TF boys to know who's gonna fuck you first today when you get home from work hsuahsuah
A/N: TF Boys x F!Reader. More Sexting.
You: I’m horny
Benny: 🤭
Santi: how horny are we talking
You: like "let you put it anywhere" horny
Will: i can help you with that
Santi: dibs
Benny: no
Benny: me
Will: aren’t you at practice?
Benny: yeh
Benny: what of it
Will: how are you texting?
Benny: one handed
Santi: looks like you’re too busy for the next few hours ben
Benny: 👁👄👁 ill come home
Frankie: mmm no I haven’t tasted you in a week
Frankie: I want you
Santi: us three can handle you, baby
Santi: Ben can miss out
You: down
Benny: omg
Benny: fucking rude
Benny: who made you cum on the plane back to St. Thomas????
Santi: you guys fucked on that plane? when? I don’t believe you
Benny: blankets and fingers old man
Benny: 😎
You: hah oh yeah 😏
Will: this contributes nothing to your case dude
Will: we’ve all made her cum
Frankie: yeah but we all know I excel at 💦
Benny: holy shit you used an emoji
Benny: ive taught you well
You: this is getting out of hand
You: [video attachment]
Benny: djdllfifjruueydurbdhjskskdjdjdjdjdj
Benny: that’s not fair
Benny: im coming home
Will: holy fuck
Santi: you’re so wet
Santi: filthy little thing
Will: you can bring pizza home ben
Will: Gatorade
Will: electrolytes
Will: more lube
Frankie: way more lube
Frankie: I’m out
You: you would be out, you sex fiend
Frankie: 🙃
You: the emojis!!
Frankie: Benjamin taught me well 👁👄👁
You: don’t use that one 😑
Benny: you guys are so mean to me
You: if you bring pizza home I will let you fuck my ass
Benny: hdjdidioeueuwusjdjdjdjjjd
Benny: you got it babe
Benny: what kind tho
Benny: ???!!!!
Benny: did u guys already start
Benny: 😾
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strikestarted · 3 years ago
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@venuspoke said “i think i’m falling in love with you.” for thomas & sarah? 👁👄👁
Thomas had snuck up to the rooftop at some point in the afternoon, preferring the company of Sarah and her laundry and mending to the chatter of men in suits hoping to land an investment from the Pulitzer fortune.
He'd been reading the paper, skimming past more articles of the troubles in the pacific in favor of a new column written by one Katherine Plumber. Thomas had come to a line that he thought Sarah would enjoy, but she had spoken first.
Before she had finished speaking, he was on his feet, face a mix of awe and pain as he looked at her.
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"Sarah, don't say things like that unless you mean it."
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kimvvantae · 3 years ago
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Hi! I stumbled upon ur work about three days ago and binge-read umbra by reading every night and I have a lot to say!! It might be split into many asks so I’ll label them (hopefully they don’t get eaten). I made some writings for almost every chapter, where I wrote my unfiltered thoughts. I didn’t make them too long to focus on reading instead. I hope this makes ur day!! (1/?) -☘️
Ch. 1 - Tae characterization is so good??? I actually did not read the pairing and thought he was Namjoon because of how smart and clever his dialogue was but was pleasantly surprised!! I actually really liked how he is characterized because most fics portray Tae as playful and mischievous but I really like how u included his more serious personality!! It was a breath of fresh air honestly. Ch. 2 - Must protect Chuu (2/?) -☘️
Ch. 3 - I love the MC, must protect her too. She is smitten but oblivious. Sir Thomas won’t help you, girl. Sorry. Ch. 4 I have a feeling Aila will maker her jealous 👀 The fact that Tae’s alias starts with V is a very nice detail. (Edit: I didn’t know Vante was his artist name! But still a very cool alias). Ch. 5 - Nvm Aila I’m hit with ANGST (in a good way!). Ch. 6 - “Your smile is prettier” I— *combusts* (3/?) -☘️
Ch. 7 - My heart is ded (“the sight is beautiful.”) the arranged marriage gave me cardiac shock. Ch. 11 - Lots of LOTR imagery in my head. Ch. 12 - Omg it all comes full circle. The setup for the colosseum with the flashback was SO satisfying! And Alpha too 🥺 Though I wished MC said “thank you” or made a meaningful look before passing out. Also really wanted to read into Hoseok’s feelings at that time. his last line was also badass af. (4/?) -☘️
Ch. 13 - I feel like the shapeshifter’s backstory will be so tragic ;-; Ch. 14 - Hoseok deserves a hug 🥺 Ch. 15 - Hope all five dragons end up fighting together that’d be so epic. And I ooh— 👁👄👁 Taehyung’s tattoos??? The plot thickens even more 😭 (5/?) -☘️
I deliberately left out chapters 8-10 because they are my favorite of the whole series so far. Idk if it’s because I’m an empath, but I felt that all of my feelings were concentrated on the bottom of my stomach, leaving my extremities and torso feeling numb and hollow. Feeling invisible and not worth much is something I personally battled with some time ago so I understood the MC a lot and felt for her. That’s why they’re my favorite chapters. Because they are raw and filled with emotion that moved me, and anything that emotionally moves a person is art. I think these chapters were the points of highest tension between MC and Tae’s relationship, which increased the emotion during the chapters and the payoff that came later. 
Also wanted to give special mention to a few aspects of your writing in general that I loved. 
Endings - you make amazing cliffhangers??? Like every time I finish reading a chapter I want to immediately click on the next one. I needed to stop myself so many times from reading for more than 3 hours because I could not put my phone down 😭 but that’s the mark of a very good book!!
Pacing - I never felt like the chapters were boring or went too fast/slow. Every scene was important for many aspects, whether for character building, plot movement, world building, etc. It’s like each chapter hits the perfect balance between plot and everything else involved in writing. 
World building - immersing myself in the world you created was not difficult. It was so easy to imagine the world that you created that it reminded me a lot of Tolkien’s world building in LOTR and The Hobbit. The world feels lived in with established history, language, culture, and believable characters. It feels *lived* in, and that’s an amazing achievement.
Characters and development - In this essay I will— no seriously I love all the characters. Everyone has flaws and arcs they go through and it’s all so wonderfully set up and developed that it’s extremely satisfying to read the improvement/conclusion of a character’s development throughout the story. Especially MC’s character development. Writing in first person definitely increased the intimacy lessened the distance between the reader (me) and the MC, as well as the MC with the rest of the characters. 
Thank you for reading my wall of text!! I would honestly buy a book if u ever publish one because I love ur writing! I’m super excited to read the rest of ur works and following ur writing journey!! Again, thank you for creating such a wonderful story and have a great day <3 (6/6) -☘️
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NAH THIS MADE ME EMOTIONAL FR???????// the little observations?????????? this is so cute 😭😭😭 miss gurl you made my day INDEED 😭😭😭
i love how you thought it was a namjoon fic at first bc i honestly think umbra could EASILY be a nj fic!!!! it fits his persona so well!!! if anyone feels like reading it with nj in your head go ahead!!! i don’t think i would’ve written it much differently if it was about him 🥺
also i’m honored and lowkey proud that you complimented the world-building bc phew it’s my fav parts to write but also the hardest 😭😭 it’s so hard to make everything connect and make sense in the end!! although i think i would’ve made some corrections if i was writing it rn, i’m still proud of it 🥺🥺 not tolkien level ofc but i aspire to get there someday!! to write a world so intricate and iconic like he did is my biggest dream tbh 😊😊
ch 8-10 are also my favorite parts! i wrote them through gritted teeth bc the tension was so HIGH,, sometimes i go back just to read the kiss scene again ✨✨btw i don’t care about wall of texts AT ALL, this right here is the sole reason why i still update this blog! you have no idea how motivated and hyped this makes writers/content creators overall 🥺🥺🥺 thank you soooooo much for sending me your thoughts!!!
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annathesillyfriend · 3 years ago
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“Shit, the axolotl at 10 o'clock, you’ve got to be shitting me,”
okay, i love her already!
You had no idea who this new you was, she was quiet now. Didn’t have a heart because someone had stolen it and broken it and left it behind a dumpster. Still trying to find it. The new you wasn't.. you.
my heart is broken already, we're off to a great start!
The city you once loved was now an open book of a relationship that seemed real, should’ve known it was all fiction.
this is awful, not only has he ripped her hear out but he also made the places she loved not as lovely anymore. just losing the person you love most is terrible on it's own but it's only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately
Julia had probably been the most surprised with the news of the breakup, she had almost gone and killed Tom when he had….unimportant.
i am sure that he totally deserved that. i don't even know what he did yet but i still wanna fight him
“I’m—I…no. I just—It’s weird. I still see him everywhere, and as I’m here it’s like watching a movie of our greatest moments,”
is it the time to tell her that he is here? 👀
“What happened? What the fuck happened? How was I so stupid?”
i wish i coul give her the biggest hug and feed her chocolates!!
“He called me—“Matt had started.
he did what-
Were you supposed to hate someone who gave you something so beautiful? Just because it’s over doesn’t mean you have to look back and hate it.
i adore her. she is so strong and so mature. even with a broken heart she won't let rage and other ugly emotions get to her
“To the piece of shit, then!”
cheers! may he live through the night and not lose any teeth
“The fucking scarf,”
not the scarf 😮
“London?” You asked and you lifted your head, and any noise that was bustling before had stopped.
uh oh we have a problem. bloody british people 🙄
When we love deeply, getting hurt comes as a given. But when we love deeply, we are never expecting it to come.
when we love are so vulnerable but we hope that the other person won't use that vulnerablity against us. it just so happens that hope is mother of the stupid
Thomas was there. Tom. Your Tom.
i think the whole problem is that he is not your tom anymore, babe
It was hard when he was everywhere.
*everywhere by niall horan playing sadly in the background* 😔
You missed that y/n.
this made me think of ben platt's song 'better' - 'cause I lost part of me when I lost all of you, now I'm lost'
Maybe she was funnier than you. Definitely prettier, with her hair falling down all the way to her waist, her clothing accentuating everything you didn’t have.
she did not only lose her heart but it made her doubt herself, made her think less of herself and this is just tragic
You could ask him. He was right there.
are you sure you're ready to put salt all over your wounds?
“No, no, no, no, I… No, I actually… I had this… I wrote down my apology,”
they're gonna make me cry :'(
“I don’t want anything to do with you.” “Then why did you come to the bar?”
oop, he went there 👁👄👁
“Cut the bullshit for once, did you or did you not lie to me?” Tom took a deep breath. “Yes. But I had feelings for you.”
it doesn't look very good for you, mate
“Yes! I love you but you’re fucking crazy! And I am too! I’m fucking crazy and mental but I—I—I loved being crazy and mental with you! We are fucking mental! Driving to nowhere? Breaking into places? Getting a jukebox on the subway? That’s mental! But—but I love that about you, alright?"
i am an emotional trian wreck™ rn
You took a deep breath. “Did you leave me without an explanation?” Tom looked down. “I did.”
i really wanted to try and go into this story with an open mind and not take sides but like,,, tom, you're making it very hard not to
“I know you won’t forgive me,” he stated. “But I can’t let you go. You’re everywhere. And I miss the person I was when you were around, and I won’t stop fighting because you’re everywhere. Dreams, nightmares.”
man 😫😫
Nancy, my dearest!!! just like i thought, this story has me in pieces and it's only the first chapter. what is amazing about your writing is that you can feel emotion flowing out of the words. it very funny to me, that i, a person with exactly zero experience when it comes to relationship, become a professional reletionship adviser and talk about feelings as if i was at lest 200 years old. like you said, getting hurt is a given when you love someone. i love you and you hurt me time and time again but i know that you're gonna make it all okay in the end so we're all good 😅 i am saying this with tears in my eyes but i am very excited to learn more about them and what went wrong. i have a couple tiny theories about that little fact tom has omitted but i need to know what that was for sure. i am so happy she gave him the chance to explain and i hope that he won't waste it. so looking forward to the next chapter, love! thank you for being so wonderful 💛
red; tom's version|one.
chapter one: sad, beautiful tragic. “Long handwritten note deep in your pocket”
pairing: Tom Holland x Reader (tom's not famous here) story summary: you’re reminiscing through your relationship months after the heartbreak and breakup. Wondering if it went wrong from the very start when Tom arrived at New York, and him being a cautionary tale or if the problems came along the way. Perhaps the key to find back your way to him is going back through the nice things before the heartbreak came. Or is it too painful to go all over again?
chapter summary: you haven't seen him since he ditched you, after months of wearing plaid you go out and realize he's back in new york warnings: angsty, I mean it's a breakup, swearing. word count: 7.3k playlist (updated after each chapter, including Red songs+ other for the chapter): Spotify | Apple Music
fic masterlist next chapter
a/n: Hi, I couldn't wait to share it so I said, screw it, I'm posting this. You don't know how excited I am to write this and share it with you. As you know, this is inspired by Red by Taylor Swift and will hurt. So I expect us all to be crumpled up pieces of paper wearing scarves by the end of this. (perennial is still coming, I'm just waiting on a few people who're reading it). SPECIAL THANKS TO @erodasghosts for reading it and hyping me up and helping me figure this all out. I hope you guys all like it as much as I did. The story is set in New York. Please give feedback!
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One month after the breakup.
Strong whiskey, on the rocks. That was his drink of choice that night. The night before had been a beer. You knew you could imagine the taste of his lips by only looking at him. You wondered if he’d gone there for a second night for the same reason you had.
When you had seen him across the place the night before, you had tried to decide how to feel. We always think we will react one way or another when we see our official heartbreak walking through. Victorious as he is perfectly dressed, with his hair flowing.
He hadn’t brought her. Which you didn’t know how to feel about.
The day before you had not been alone, Jules, Matty, and Lula were there.
“Shit, the axolotl at 10 o'clock, you’ve got to be shitting me,” Lourdes, Lula, had whispered before sipping her drink, a Long Island Tea. “We are celebrating she’s doing better, can’t fucking believe this,” she hissed at Jules who only lifted her chin slightly to see who she was referring to. “What the fuck is he doing here? Ay, es que, con qué huevos se atreve a venir aquí? Que no mame.” [with what balls did he dare to come here? He shouldn’t fuck with us. ]
You loved hanging out with Lula and listening to her very refined Spanish cursing.
“It’s not him,” Julia said.
You tried looking back to see who they were referring to. “Who is—?”
“Y/N, wait I just noticed the haircut!” Matt pointed out, reaching over, getting your attention back to them and not at whatever they were referring to. “It looks great. It’s like a new you!”
This new you. The one that had been screwed over twice. Men really have the nerve when it comes to breaking hearts. They recklessly go in and let you believe love comes in all shades of colors, passionate red like the roses they send, and tender pinks like your sweet innocence that they end up stealing. But they never tell you it’ll be you all alone in a dark room with shades of grey under a flickering light that barely warms you.
The new you, which was still a bit lost. Your old self was a stranger to you now. You had no idea who this new you was, she was quiet now. Didn’t have a heart because someone had stolen it and broken it and left it behind a dumpster. Still trying to find it. The new you wasn't.. you.
Your friends were glad, however, they finally got you to go out again. After weeks of wearing plaid and watching Fleabag, and even considering watching Greys Anatomy, a low point, you had finally decided to come back to see if there was any sunshine left for you.
It’s important to point out that you had been broken-hearted and almost crazy when the breakup had happened. Very… delusional. You were not proud of the way you’d reacted. Although you wouldn’t have reacted any other way.
The city had been quiet, the red lights seemed to last longer, and the crowds would often swallow you. The city you once loved was now an open book of a relationship that seemed real, should’ve known it was all fiction.
In your dreams they’d be bright, colorful. The village is aglow. Cold days with warm hearts. Like his.
You’d been cold ever since.
“Ah, yeah, the haircut. Got it today. Lula’s idea” The haircut had come as the solution to a problem that would never be solved. As if cutting your hair meant there was something you had the power on. You didn’t.
How stupid was it? You couldn’t control your life.
“It suits her well, doesn’t it?” Lula admitted proudly.
You still had his picture engraved in your heart. You still dreamed he would come back and say it was all a nightmare.
“It’s nice, I’m glad to have you back,” Jules commented. Julia had probably been the most surprised with the news of the breakup, she had almost gone and killed Tom when he had….unimportant. She hadn’t, though, and she had yet to tell you the reason why. Julia had been mysterious since.
“I’m glad to be back,” you confirmed. You’d ordered a beer, and maybe you shouldn’t have. Stella Artois, his one favorite. You pocketed the beer cap. “Though I was not gone.”
Matt watched you, him and Julia had recently started dating. Best friends since kids who just recently confessed their feelings for each other, took them long enough. “How back are you, though?”
“Meaning?” You asked, taking a sip.
Matt shrugged, “I could introduce you to some friends from work, there’s this hot guy—“
“No,” you interrupted him, leaving the bottle down as you had almost choked. “No, no. Not in the dating area yet. Won’t be in a long time. Still healing.”
Lula still had her eyes glued elsewhere. “Healing from a bullet hole, y/n, whatever you’re doing isn’t working, and band aids won’t fix it—Jules it is, I swear to god it’s him.”
“It’s not him,” Julia rolled her eyes.
“Ay, que sí!” [he is]
“Who?” You asked.
Julia took your hands, “you know Lula,” she rolled her eyes. “I love that you ordered a beer.”
“Yeah,” you gulped. “Beer is universal language for men as in: ‘don’t get close to me.’” A lesson someone dear had taught you once.
Matt tilted his head in agreement, “Yeah.”
“Really?” Lula frowned, “should’ve ordered one. Next time I’ll ask for my drink but instead of a glass I’ll ask them to put it in a beer bottle.”
“Wouldn't it be easier to order a beer?” Matt suggested.
“But then I’d break our tradition.”
Matt watched her, “you really are something.”
You chuckled.
“Why is beer seen as not—feminine?” Matt questioned.
Julia shrugged. “It’s beyond me, really. It’s a drink.”
“Like does my drink make me less of a man?” Matt watched his glass, another Long Island Tea. A stupid inside joke you all had.
“No,” you admitted. “But you know how society is. Since it’s sweet, it’s got to be—“
“Oh, no, no, I love you, y/n, but tonight I don’t want you lecturing us on it, no, tonight we are having fun, ok?” Lula reminded you. “We will not talk about femininity or lack of a beer—or whatever your agenda is up to these days, which, hey! Why does y/n get to break the rule?” Lula questioned. “No Long Island Tea?
Julia glared at her, “Because she can do whatever she wants tonight,” she hissed and then turned to you. “But how are you feeling? It’s your first time going out in months, is it as fun?” Julia was the one to try to cheer you up the most.
No, it wasn’t fun.
“I—feel good!” You lied. Although you were not. But you guessed that’s the response they wanted after seeing you laying down on the ground and crying yourself to sleep. Staring at windows and walking down in the rain. They wanted you to feel better.
Your body was covered in scars.Though, they were from adventures.
“Bullshit,” Lula intruded. “You seem sad. Maybe I’ll get some shots,” she announced before going to get some.
“Well,” you chuckled. “My first time going out and you bring me back to the place where it all started?” You answered cynically but then shrugged. “I’m—I…no. I just—It’s weird. I still see him everywhere, and as I’m here it’s like watching a movie of our greatest moments,” you admitted. “Like hey, look over there, it’s Tom and Y/N’s greatest moments,” you stated, Lula got back. “Let’s start memory lane…”and you sighed and continued with the best presenter voice you had. “Here you’ll wonder how the hell did it go so wrong since they were so perfect, what the hell went wrong, when did it turn into some sad stupid love affair. You’ll be asking yourself hey, they seemed in love, over there, they danced! Over there… they sang a song together! See over there? There was a fucking jukebox in which they have memories! Oh they have memories there too! And you’ll ask yourself, he made it seem real, what the hell happened?” You sighed exhaustedly. “What happened? What the fuck happened? How was I so stupid?” You ran your hands through your face.
Your friends only watched you, with pity, sadness. Even Lula had turned her gaze guilty.
You cleared your throat, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
“No,” Lula sighed, “it’s our fault for bringing you here. We’re fucking idiots. Besides he is—Julia I swear to god, he is there.” Lula raised her hand and Julia quickly pulled it down.
Julia bit her lip, “I—hadn’t realized how much Tom there is here.”
“Yeah.”
“He called me—“Matt had started.
“No, no, we can’t talk about him, baby,” Julia reminded him. Matt widened his eyes and nodded.
You blinked, “no, it’s—He called you? Tom?” Why had Tom called Matty? What for?
“Yeah, had a missed call,” Matt explained, ignoring his girlfriend. “I—it was this morning.”
You felt your chest twist. “Yeah, I get a lot of those too.”
Perhaps he wanted to talk to you and thought Matty was dumb enough to give you the phone.
Julia glared at Matt. “We promised not to—“
“No, hey,” you stopped her. “I—sorry, I brought him up.”
“But we shouldn’t talk about him,” Julia insisted. “Tonight is all about having fun,” she stated as she handed everyone their shots.
“No, it’s alright,” you said. “I’m fine talking about it.”
Lula turned her gaze to you. “Shouldn’t you hate him?”
Were you supposed to hate someone who gave you something so beautiful? Just because it’s over doesn’t mean you have to look back and hate it.
“No,” you answered simply.
Matt watched you. “Wait, really?”
You took a deep breath. “Yeah, I’m—I decided I’m thankful for everything. He really… I… I mean I knew from the start he was trouble. But he got me to get rid of Will. So I’m thankful for Tom. He showed me some beautiful things about him, about myself and… I’m thankful. Even the part when he broke my heart.”
It was a lie. Partly. You had been so full of doubts that you only tried wondering why it had gone so wrong. Or course, the lie was there. His lies. But how could any of it be a lie?
Julia smiled gently, “You’re really a grown up.”
“Or very stupid.” Lula commented.
“Thanks, Lula, I appreciate it,” you rolled your eyes. “I… well, I’ve gotta admit I was pretty stupid.”
Lula shrugged, “Hey, I don’t blame you, boy came in with an accent, he had a cute smile, he was hot, I must admit, and he wasn’t one of those Brooklyn fuckboys that take you to the rooftop and offer you a whiteclaw to watch the sunrise together,” Lula gave in.
“Oh, and they take candid pictures, and they say that their phone camera isn’t as good as their polaroid,” Julia laughed, “But hey, you’re lucky they took you to the rooftop, they never take anyone there, they took you there just because you’re…”
“Different,” Julia, Lula and you chanted.
Matt laughed, “You guys are the worst.”
“Anyway,” Lula said. “We should drink these,” she pointed at the shot glasses as she raised her own. “I came here to get drunk. So, to Y/N being thankful Tom was a piece of shit even when the boy had a dreamy accent?”
You closed your eyes, and let out a defeated dry chuckle. “Yes, to that.”
“To the piece of shit, then!” Lula grinned as the shots clinked and were downed. You instantly regretted drinking it.
Lula scowled as she had her eyes glued back at the bar, “It’s him, Julia, it’s him! What is he doing here? Pendejo, I swear to god I’ll go kill him.” She was furious, and you tried once again following her gaze.
The bar was crowded, red lights crossed around the place, with girls walking with tall heels, trying to smile and nod at guys who were talking to them but clearly were not of interest to them. Friends laughing, people flirting. You didn’t know who your friends were watching.
But the bar seemed to be enough of a reminder of him. How he had made you feel like crowds were never there, and how whenever you had been with him everything disappeared just to be with him.
“Who are we killing?” You questioned.
“Is new y/n a murderer?” Asked Matt. Matt and Julia were your oldest friends. The three of you grew up in Staten Island, and now moved to the crowded places.
Lula coughed. “Hope she is.” Lula, on the other hand, you’ve met in college, she was a very defined addition to the friend group. With more personality. A strong one. Lula, Julia and you shared a small apartment.
Julia cleared her throat.
“The fucking scarf,” Lula scowled.
“What scarf?” Matt asked. And you had the same question.
Julia whispered to her boyfriend’s ear who had turned cold. He lifted his head.
“But it’s not.”
“It is him,” Matt confirmed to Lula. “Jules, it is.”
And now your three friends were acting strange. Usually they did but this was strang-er. They all shared looks, Julia struggled with her hands.
They were watching you with pity but you’d gotten used to that. After the breakup they had been extra careful around you, kinder, you guessed.
Fools they were to believe that by not mentioning him you wouldn’t think of him. He was a memory that would haunt you for the rest of the days.
“So, y/n,” Julia was clearly hiding whatever Lula was seeing.
“Wasn’t he in London? What in this fucking world is he doing here?” Lula continued.
“Shut up!” Julia ordered.
“London?” You asked and you lifted your head, and any noise that was bustling before had stopped.
Tom.
Tom was there.
Thomas.
Tom who had broken your heart. In every possible way that he could’ve. Like he had planned it. Like he was aware.
He was there, on a stool with a beer in his hand and wearing a red scarf. The red scarf. As if he was mocking you.
Tom.
Did he pride on hurting you?
He had always said you were invincible. That you were unrivaled in matters of the heart. Was he proud he had beaten the unbeaten?
You’d always thought he would.
When we love deeply, getting hurt comes as a given. But when we love deeply, we are never expecting it to come. And when it does come the skies cannot turn grayer. Funny thing, you were a fan of the rain but when the rain doesn’t cease, the hope doesn’t perdure.
But he was back in your life. Or at least he had been in the same room as you after months.
What was he doing back in New York with your scarf?
You turned back to your own table, breathing in quickly, bringing your hand to your chest in an attempt to calm yourself down.
You saw your friends speaking but you couldn’t make a word of what they’re saying. Your heart was rushing. Thomas was there. Tom. Your Tom. And there was a part of you that had completely forgotten over the heartbreak and wanted to run to him.
Kiss him, try to fix it. Try to bring back the beautiful thing you both had. Because it was. And it hurt looking back.
You were having trouble breathing now, the heartbreak had come.
That’s the worst thing about heartbreak. You never saw it coming, though you should’ve. Though it was beautiful you’d known from the start you’d end up hurt. But when a lie is crafted so beautifully, how could you?
“It’s him.” The words had come in whispers.
You barely remembered what had happened next. You had only stood up, decisive to leave, you’d seen him try to walk his way to you. You’d heard him call your name, but you hadn’t turned back, you had seen Matty stop him from running to you.
It was blurry. You didn’t know how you got home. Desperately trying to understand why he was there and how the night had turned too badly.
Lula and Matt had come back later to find Julia trying to comfort you, hugging a pillow that you were sure he had slept on. Breathless.
But it was in the past now, you were there again. Same bar, both in stools far away.
You were almost sure he’d gone to that bar in hopes of finding you again.
Just like you’d gone again.
His eyes the night before were guilty. You only took a deep breath, you remembered trying to avoid his glance at any chance as you had walked out.
Why were you there again?
That feeling in your chest growing, like there was something heavy expanding. Yet your stomach falling smaller. The pain was but a shield, as if it was creating a special protection around your heart, and though it hurt it was enough for it to make your heart strong to leave the place.
You didn’t want to see Tom. You hadn’t talked to him since. Even when he’d tried to call. Even when you’d tried calling.
Not when you had replayed the breakup over and over and over again since he was gone.
Everyone deals with breakups in different ways. Yours, specifically, was avoiding it. Everything and everyone. Especially Tom.
It was hard when he was everywhere. In that tattoo he’d convinced you to get, in that ring he’d left, in that cereal box that you still hadn’t finished. Whenever you listened to a song he’d recommended. Whenever you’d open Netflix and that series you had started watching together was still recommended to you even when you’d deleted it.
Everywhere.
You couldn’t use your favorite colors because you could hear it, in the back of your head “I love how it looks on you.” “You should wear more blue, it suits you.”
Even your stupid laugh remind you of him. “Your laugh is the most wonderful thing I’ve heard, even if it’s so ugly.”
You missed the person you were when he was with you. How everything was happy. Who was that y/n? Who didn’t mind if she was slightly late to a place because he’d come with you? Who didn’t feel alone at parties when she knew nobody because you knew him?
A y/n that existed only for a short period of time when he’d been around and that he’d shattered like glass when he had the chance.
You missed that y/n.
The y/n that would sometimes lose her breath and catch it back when he walked into the room. A y/n that sang along to her favorite songs all day. The one that would give her heart in a rush to him. The one that watched movies no matter if they were good or not.
Life had colors back then.
Now you were full of regrets and of doubts. Wondering what you had done wrong? Where did it lead you?
You looked up at him then. He was staring down at his glass.
There was a slight trace of him still there, the Tom you once loved. The one with the silly smile and the gentle chuckle, the one with the jokes about everything.
You wondered how much of that y/n he saw too.
You were the same two people, in essence. But how different you were now.
The Tom you knew before finding out it was a lie.
There was still a hint. You knew. But there was so much of him in you that it was hard to see if you still were there. Or the Tom you thought you knew. Not the one with the lie. Or maybe this was the truest Tom he could ever be.
He had to move on, rather quickly, you recalled. If he ever did.
There was a stupid reminder of you in his hand, that red scarf from the very first day.
You still remembered how it all started, a stupid red scarf. He kept it, then, and he wore it.
You had ordered a beer, too. You pocketed the cap again.
But there was an image in your mind, maybe he had gone back and probably had his arm around her and he laughed at a joke she made. Maybe she was funnier than you. Definitely prettier, with her hair falling down all the way to her waist, her clothing accentuating everything you didn’t have.
You recalled having to leave the room when you found out. You had been a mess.
Leaning against a wall as you caught your breath before the tears came down, as if he had pierced right through it. A pain chest that had expanded all the way on your body, not sure how you were able to keep walking back to your place. Falling down to your knees when you did.
Pain. Words failed to describe such a deep sentiment.
But it was gone now. Not entirely but at least you could hold your breath fine when he was just across the room.
What went wrong?
You could ask him. He was right there.
Maybe even tell him how you had lost sight. He hadn’t walked up to you. He was nervous, but he seemed calm enough to see you were there. You were still unsure why you had gone there.
Maybe all the good things were enough to bring you there, maybe the fact that you still didn’t believe it was a lie brought you there. Maybe the fact that one of those pictures from that photobooth was still in a locket. So stupid.
He fiddled with the glass.
You waited and waited but he didn’t approach you. He took out a paper out of his pocket as he stared at it.
You wouldn’t approach him. No matter how happy he had made you once, you wouldn’t walk to him. No matter how beautiful it was. No matter if you were lonely and that when you dared to sleep he’d be haunting your dreams.
It was a tragedy now. What you both were, and not even worth enough to try and save it. You knew you were haunting him too. Otherwise he wouldn’t be here.
He was shakin, as he stared at you, nervous. He downed his drink, you guessed it was for some liquid courage and stood up, with the note in one hand and your red scarf in the other.
Your own courage for coming here was gone, as you saw his intentions, the urge to run you had the night before was becoming you. But he couldn’t walk. He had to sit down again, rubbing his face.
The courage that had come when choosing what Lula called the ‘revenge black dress’ was nowhere in sight. You were cold and regretting putting it on.
“I can’t do this,” you said to yourself and quickly let out some dollars to pay for your drink before picking up your stuff to leave.
You saw he panicked when he saw you leaving, he quickly called the bartender to pay for his drink.
You closed your coat as you were shaking yourself, punishing yourself for going there. Why had you gone there? The man had broken your heart? Were you really there to see him?
Was your heart foolish enough to ignore the warnings in your mind once again?
You walked your way to get to the subway station, how irrelevant you were through the crowds. You hadn’t felt this way for a while, caring for the crowds. But you had to get through them. There was a part of you that wished Tom was following you after. But the crowds didn’t let you see if he was.
Besides, you shouldn’t want that.
You finally managed to get to the station, you clung to your purse as you stared at the tracks, waiting for the next train to come. Peaceful it seemed, the station. As peaceful as New York could be. You guessed if you cried nobody would care.
“y/n!” You heard your name in the distance and you couldn’t handle it.
You took a deep breath and shook your head, angrily. Why had you gone? You could’ve easily kept ignoring his calls. You could’ve stayed in your apartment, crying as you watched SNL videos on youtube, or rewatching a cartoon for the hundredth time, letting your own sadness and self pity swallow you.
But you had gone to him. This was your fault. You should’ve taken a cab, instead, he would know you’d get at this station and he for sure would know what train you’d take.
“y/n, y/n!” He kept calling as he finally arrived next to you. “Sorry I would’ve gotten here faster but the damn MetroCard-”
“I’m not doing this, Tom,” you stated before he could go on rambling like the idiot he was. You couldn’t do it. “Not here, not anywhere. I don’t know what you’re doing here.”
“I…” His face was kind, and he seemed to be nervous. You could tell he hadn’t been sleeping, probably the jet lag.
You took a moment to look at him, he didn’t look as victorious as you had thought he was. His hair was messy, and his cheeks flushed, the buttons on his shirt were not buttoned right.
Seeing him again, with that signature look he had made you want to go down to your knees.
“Aren’t you supposed to be back in London?” You snapped. “With that pretty girl-”
“No, no, I’m-I’m sorry, I’m really sorry,” Tom stuttered. “I was an idiot.”
You stared into his eyes, you were not ready for this. You were not ready to look into his stupid eyes. You looked away. “That’s all you have to say?” You tried walking away from him..
He shook his head. “No, no, no, no, I… No, I actually… I had this… I wrote down my apology,” Tom confessed. He showed you a sad, handwritten paper, now slightly teared up with the ink running. “I… I had….”
You looked down at it, his messy handwriting, crinkled with words scratched down. “You wrote it down?”
You didn’t know why you felt your heart warm. This kind of stuff was why you couldn’t understand what had happened. Someone like him, who writes his apologies down. Someone who stutters when he’s speaking.
“Yeah, I… but I spilled my drink on it after seeing you fled,” He explained, swallowing hard. “I… I… I had written it down so I wouldn’t forget it but now I realize how stupid that is… I’m… I’m really sorry, y/n.” .
You could hear the train coming. You were seeing him again. It hit you right there. And this was not the reaction you thought. You had said you would be delusional, crying and fighting and questioning him why the fuck he had done that.
Yet you weren’t. You were only watching him, eyes full of tears wanting to slide down but unable to. But there was that pain still in your chest.
How could he ever dare to hurt you that way? “I don’t want to talk to you,” you said. And meant it. “Please leave me alone.” You said before walking into the train.
“Y/N, please, no, please, please, listen to me,” He followed you in, the scarf still in his hand.
You tried sitting as far away as you could. Arms and legs crossed as you tried breathing in.
He sat beside you and you changed seats. He sighed but followed you again. “Please, I need to talk to you. I never meant to hurt you.”
“Well you did,” you snapped. “You did, and now you come here a month later with a handwritten note apology thinking I will be fine with it?”
He pinched the bridge of his nose. “I had to solve-Please, would you listen?” Tom asked, knowing damn well he had to ask, and not just straight up blurt it out.
“Why would I, Tom?” You turned to him, with a tear traveling down your cheek. You were incredulous. “You’re kidding me, right? I… You… You think that just because you show up with that stupid face of yours and my scarf I’ll want to listen to you? You’re an idiot.”
He sighed and reached to give you the scarf. You ignored it.You were furious now.
The other people on the train were certainly getting a show. A guy with a backpack was trying to pretend he wasn’t listening but his reactions were giving it away. Another woman pretended to keep reading her book but she hadn’t turned any pages.
Tom took the scarf back staring at it. “I need to explain everything to you.”
“What if I don’t want an explanation?” You snapped. Though you did. You had been waiting for one, you wanted one. You would beg for it. But your pride was taking the wheel of the conversation. “Don’t you think it’s fucking late for it?”
“Is it?” Tom turned back to you.
“Yes!” You couldn’t believe him. But this seemed a bit too familiar of a conversation. “And beside no explanation would make me forgive you!” You stated, whispering, not wanting any of the attention you were receiving.
“I’m not… I… If you just listen to me,” Tom said.
You glared, “I don’t want anything to do with you.”
“Then why did you come to the bar?” He asked.
He fucking asked.
Your eyes widened. He had gone there. He knew. He fucking knew you’d gone back because you wanted an explanation. Or so he thought. No, you’d gone back because… Yes, because you wanted an explanation. Because everything he’d done had been beautiful. Until the heartbreak. He had crafted and vexed his way into your cold stupid heart and then he had gone and pierced right through it, crushed it.
You wanted to ask why. Why did he do it so vehemently?
You didn’t answer, instead you moved one seat away. He kept his eyes on you.
“You wouldn’t have gone if you didn’t want an explanation,” he said. “Or to see me, at least. I know I did, I needed to see you.”
You saw the guy with the backpack purse his lips, knowing that Tom had got you. There was little context for them. The girl with the book directed a glance to you, trying to read your emotions.
If they knew, they’d be on your side and yelling at him as well.
He rested his elbows on his knees and rubbed his face.
“I didn’t, it was a coincidence,” you answered coldly.
“No, it bloody wasn’t,” Tom scoffed and then sat up. “No, I’m… No, but you know, you went to the bar for a reason.”
“And I left for a million more,” you frowned.
Tom pursed his lips and took out the paper again, trying to make out whatever he’d written before. “I’m really sorry.” His eyes traced through the note.
“Are you genuinely trying to read it? Don’t you know what you’re supposed to apologize for?”
Tom looked up, “So you do want me to apologize?”
The guy with the backpack squeezed his eyes shut, knowing Tom had fucked up.
“You’re kidding, right? Yes, you have to apologize, what you did is really, really shitty!” You pointed out.
“But you won’t forgive me, then?” Tom watched you.
“I don’t know,” you said and he looked up, a beaming gaze. “No, I won’t.”
He wrinkled his eyes, “I… I know I’m supposed to apologize, not to expect you to forgive. I'm just…”
He gulped, and then sat back, staring at the dirty walls and lights. He had dressed up. Badly, but he had tried looking good, you could tell. You could smell his lotion, too.
He was fiddling with the paper, crumpling up and then it fell to the floor. You looked at it and somehow related to it, not sure how.
You took a deep breath so you wouldn’t kill him and turned to him. “I have questions for you, if you answer them I might consider listening to you.”
Tom’s eyes brightened up. “Yes, yes, anything.”
You eyed him up and down as he watched you with begging eyes. You avoided his gaze. Tom followed your gaze as you tried to figure out what was the first thing you could ask him. Why had he hurt you?
Why did he not stop and think before making you fall in love with him?
Why did he not stop and tell you the truth?
“Where are you staying?” You asked,
Tom blinked. “Is that… is that the question?”
“No, but I know you don’t know how to fucking get anywhere,” you said.
Tom gulped, “I… uh, again with Harrison,” he explained.
You sighed. You remembered Harrison alright. And though there was a petty part inside you, you would help him out. Knowing he’d always get lost in the city. Though you could let him get lost, so you’d have to go after him and spend a bit more time. With an excuse, because you didn’t seem to have any excuse to be with him.
It hurt. What hurt the most was trying not to look back at the incredible moments you had because none of them were true.
You sighed. “Okay, when we get down you’ll take the F train—“
Tom stopped you, taking your hand. “No, wait, I don’t care if I get lost, okay, I… I just.”
You snatched your hand away from his cold hands he had. You darkened your gaze at him.
“Please, Y/n, I just need a chance. If you don’t want to listen… maybe I’ll just…” He handed you the note.
You crossed your arms, and tapped your foot, trying to decide whether or not to give it to him. “Fine,” you took the note.
You've gotten to your stop. So you stood up.
The girl with the book and the guy with the backpack watched you both as you walked out, pitying they couldn’t follow the drama.
Tom followed after you, he licked his lips. “You… you had questions, right?”
“Yeah.” You nodded, taking yet another heavy breath. You turned on your feet to look at him “One, did you lie to me?”
Tom was taken back by this, his eyes, consternated, only watched you. He gulped. “What?”
“Did you lie to me?
“I… well.”
You were getting desperate. “Did you ?”
“I didn’t lie about how I felt,” he said. You knew he wasn’t lying about it. He couldn’t. He couldn’t have ever lied about how he felt because you knew he had felt it too, a bit, at least,
You rolled your eyes, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.”
“I mean it, I…” Tom gulped. “I really liked you.”
“Yeah, I know, you liked me yadda, yadda,” you started. Liked not loved. “Cut the bullshit for once, did you or did you not lie to me?”
Tom took a deep breath. “Yes. But I had feelings for you.”
You bit your inner cheeks. “Uh-huh, yes, okay, good, yes, you acknowledge it. So, we have two statements here, Tom. You say you had feelings yet you lied to me,” you squinted. “Sounds-”
Tom gulped and avoided your gaze. “I know yes,” he looked down. “But, if you give me-”
“Ah, buh-buh, nope, I’m just gathering my thoughts here,” you coughed. “I need you to look me in the eyes and tell me what you felt.”
Tom shook his head in confusion. “I—I’m”
“Go on,” you motioned your hand.
“Y/N,” he said. And the way he dared to say your name was like having a knife right through you. “I had—I have feelings for you,” he said looking right into your eyes.
He didn’t say what feelings.
You were not sure where you wanted to go with this. “Fine, my next question…” you really didn’t know where this was going. “So, alright, you…” You couldn’t even phrase it. “You… made me fall in love with you knowing….Well, we both know what you did. What you hid from me. You’re a liar who made me—“
Tom took a deep breath. “Yes, but I didn’t… plan that.”
Your eyes widened. “Oh, so it’s my fault?” You stepped back. “Sorry for developing feelings for you. Sorry for ruining your life—“
Tom closed his eyes, “No, no, look, I… wasn’t. I didn’t come here expecting to meet you, I didn’t want… It just happened, okay, I never thought—You're making it sound like it’s some big master plan. I—I never planned—I never would’ve ever planned on hurting you.”
You watched him, incredulous. “Thomas you do realize what you did to me?”
“I do.”
“No, you don’t! You’re trying to make me seem like I’m crazy for not even wanting to talk to you!” You called him out.
“I’m not, I’m just saying that if you’re here—you must miss it too, you know it was too real, and you want it back, possibly—M-maybe not, but if you came to the bar tonight it was in hopes of finding me again because you knew I’d be there, and you want to feel how you felt before, and i just… you know I miss it and that you knew I didn’t lie—“
You glared at him. “You did lie!”
“Okay—yes, yes I did—But not entirely, I just happened to omit one truth—“
“One very important truth,” you snarked.
“Fine but—please listen,” he tried to convince you. “and I’m sorry, okay? I—I didn’t want to hurt you. But I never planned this. It just happened. I didn’t come here expecting to fall in love with anyone, I didn’t come here trying to date, and I never expected it to be someone as complex—“
“Complex?”
“Yes, I never came to New York trying to find the most mental relationship I’ve ever had—“
“Mental?” You snapped.
“Yes! I love you but you’re fucking crazy! And I am too! I’m fucking crazy and mental but I—I—I loved being crazy and mental with you! We are fucking mental! Driving to nowhere? Breaking into places? Getting a jukebox on the subway? That’s mental! But—but I love that about you, alright? Don’t you get it? I could’ve stayed in London, I could've been the asshole who just ditched you and lied to you—“
You scoffed. “Well that’s comforting!”
“But I’m—I’m here, ain’t I? And I know I fucked up, I know, I accept that, I’m the asshole here, and I know you’ll never—I hid it from you because I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t even get it myself. I’m here to give you my version of it. I didn’t realize I was falling in love with you…I am…,I am in love with you, and I never planned that, I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with someone else, it just happened. I may have thought it was just—Some fling, initially.”
You laughed cynically. “A fling.”
He gulped. “And the moment I realized what was really going on—”
“You left, that’s what you fucking did, when you realized it was way too real for you, you destroyed the one real thing you’ve ever known,” you barked, he stepped back. “I fell in love with you, I—I—and then you ditched me, and I thought that was the worst thing you could ever do to me but then I realized that it wasn’t real! I—you were never mine, Tom! I simply was—a break you needed or—a fling.”
“It wasn’t that—“
You watched him. Looking so innocent, kind eyes and tender lips. You would’ve believed him had he come before.
“You used me!” You snapped, the words that had wanted to come for a while just blurted out. “I just can’t believe you,” you said. “You don’t feel sorry.” You shook your head, your voice was cracking. “You're not sorry because you don’t understand. You don’t know what I went through, and if you had come earlier, if you hadn’t left me, I probably would have believed you. But—No! No!” You stepped back. “No!”
“I did call! You never picked up the phone! I tried—“Tom started.
“Was I really expected to pick it up? Let’s get back to it. Shall we? The facts. Did you or did you not date me? And made me fall in love with you?”
Tom sighed. “I—yes.”
“Did you lie?”
“…yes.”
You nodded. “Was I the other one?”
Tom squinted his eyes. “No… yes, no.”
You took a deep breath. ���Did you leave me without an explanation?”
Tom looked down. “I did.”
“Did you ditch me?”
Tom looked everywhere and nowhere. “Yes,” he answered, defeated.
“Now, do you think I can ever forgive you?”
Tom didn’t answer.
You reached for your purse, for the locket that dug deep inside. “I don’t know you,” you stated giving him the locket, the stupid locket you’d bought as a joke when making fun of other couples and now laughed in your face. “Whatever happened means nothing. Because that’s the thing Tom. Everything we lived was a lie, those two people in the locket are not us, because you weren’t who you said you were, no matter how much I loved it, it’s not true and though it was too many emotions all at once I’m—It’s not real, not for you. I spent this whole time thinking I wanted you to apologize but I don’t want it. That charming guy wasn’t truly you because you omitted one very important thing. You—What were you thinking? Were you planning to never say it? Or did you plan it like that? Just ditching me, hoping I wouldn’t find out—“
Tom took a deep breath. “No—No, I didn’t. I just—-I didn’t know what to do. I’m so sorry, I should’ve told you and I should’ve fixed it before—-“
“No, no you didn’t because it wasn’t enough for you.”
Tom gulped, “It was, it was—-the best thing I’ve ever had.”
“And you ruined it.”
“I’m sorry.”
“How little words mean when you’re a little too late, huh?” And that was the cue you needed to walk away. He silently watched you as you tried not to cry.
“I’m really sorry.” He said.
Was he?
“What if I try to prove it to you?” He asked as you were steps away from him.
You didn’t stop.
“If we go over this, you’ll see I never lied about it.” He continued.
“I already went over it, I remember everything, Tom, and maybe that’s why I don't want to talk to you.”
Tom walked behind, slowly. “I just happened to be very unlucky when it came to my own circumstances,” he reached over. “And I wish the timing had been better. But you’re right, it’s the one real thing I’ve ever had and I lost it because I hid something in fear of losing you. I lied because it was too good to be true. And I understand if you don’t want anything to do with me but I think you deserve to know why. But you went to the bar for a reason, and you had the locket for another.”
You stopped this time. Looking down at the floor and then at his hand, holding your stupid scarf. You shook your head, you really didn’t want to go through it all over again.
“I know you won’t forgive me,” he stated. “But I can’t let you go. You’re everywhere. And I miss the person I was when you were around, and I won’t stop fighting because you’re everywhere. Dreams, nightmares.”
Funny. You were his demons too.
“Am I haunting your nightmares?” You asked. Tom only watched you.
He took a deep breath. “I don’t expect you to forgive me, I just need—I really need you to listen to my version.”
“Fine then, let’s go down this sad, beautiful tragic love affair.”
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