#we could slow dance to rock music ༺♡༻ amy & tom

[xotherwcrldsx]

Okay yall... meet Thomas 'Tom' Whitlock, Amy's boyfriend and future hubby 🤗

Born April 3rd, 1973, just outside of Los Angeles, California. His mother died in childbirth, and his father died by suicide when Tom was only three. Tom lived with his grandfather until he was about 14. At 14, Tom killed his grandfather with one of guns. He proceeded to set the house on fire, making it look like someone else did it. He stole his gtandfather's car, gun, and has pretty much been on the run ever since. He doesn't stay in places for too long, finding it easier to be in one town or city for a short period of time, wreak some havoc while he's there, then slip away into the night. He steals money from his victims, and that's how he gets by. He's a lone wolf, choosing to stay by himself. No friends, and now no family to speak of. Just himself, his car, and his gun. He likes to hold his victims at gunpoint and make them beg for their lives before ultimately shooting them in the head. There's a thrill to him with how much a person is willing to say and do in order to save themselves.

He meets Amy in late 2000, when he drives into her town. Amy, now 19, is living in Tiffany's old trailer and working two jobs just to get by, since she dropped out of college after her mother's 'death' in 1998. Tom sees Amy at her night job—a waitress at a diner he walks into. He notices that her smile doesn't match her eyes, but she seems to be quiet and reserved, almost strangely so for a girl so beautiful. There's something about her that stands out, but in a way that only he can see. So he decides to stay in town for longer than he intended to—just to see where this goes.

Tom has no idea that this girl he meets is the daughter of the infamous Lakeshore Strangler. They're both in for a wild ride together.

[xotherwcrldsx]

The Boy is Mine by Ariana Grande is SO Amy and Tom coded (from Amy's POV)... she spent a good majority of her life not interested romantically in anyone, then walks in Tom at the diner where she works, and their eyes meet, and she's instantly enthralled by him, though she tries to play it coy and keep her mysterious edge to her when they first meet, which only just pulls him in closer to her as well. Without any words, initially, just that first eye contact, they recognize a darkness within each other that the outside world simply passes off as "weird" and "off putting".

[xotherwcrldsx]

Tom and Amy's relationship (if described by a Taylor Swift album) is VERY Reputation coded

Especially "Don't Blame Me", "Call It What You Want", and "Delicate"