EUPHORIC | t.s.h

part thirteen

Moments had passed and the two hadn't said anything, until Tom's low voice reached her ears.

"I wanna do this someday you know." He said, looking at Y/n with the expectation that she'd meet his eyes.

And she did.

"Do what?"

"Act."

There was silence, until she spoke.

"Why don't you join the theatre club?" She said looking at him as he looked at her once again.

"Not like this. Not here."

Before she could question further, he began to speak again.

"If I get into a play here the only reason they'll see me is because I'm 'Tom Holland.' I want to do something where no one knows me, where I can start over."

She looked at him, the expression of sympathy on her face. She knew what he was feeling, she hadn't felt it, but she knew.

She understood him. The way he didn't want to  be in a place where he was set in his ways, the way he wanted to start over, and not return to the past, to make a future.

It reminded her of her dad, but her dad came back to his past, and she was afraid that it might take over him.

She understood how just like her dad, Tom had made mistakes. And he wanted to go somewhere else and run from them all.

And never come back.

Because the past is an evil thing.

She wanted to console him and tell him he needed to follow what he wanted to do and not let any of this get him out of it.

He couldn't run from the present, but he could change it.

She looked down at his hands, they were on his lap playing impatiently together.

She lifted her hand and placed it on top of his. But before she could feel his cold skin under her warm touch, the bell rang.

"AND STOP! THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!" The two heard Mr. Downey say to May and Timmy who were blushing profusely from the 'romance.'

Y/n quickly pulled her hand back from Tom's and put a strand of her hair behind her ear.

"Guess I'll go to May." Y/n said standing up and brushing her jeans.

"I think she's already busy." Tom said smirking as he folded his arms and looked into the direction of the stage.

On the very side stood May and Timmy giggling and touching each other in the most flirty manner they could.

"Let me call her." Y/n said chuckling to herself at her best friend who was nearly dying from the redness on her face.

Y/n dialled the number and heard May's voice coming from the other side.

"Hello, this is Joe's Pizza, you want Chinese?"

Y/n giggled at her friend and put the call on speaker so Tom could hear.

"Hey, can we go?"

They looked at May from the end of the room as she talked into the phone and glanced at Timmy as soon as Y/n asked her.

"Yeah so I'm so sorry boo, I'm kinda busy I don't think I'll be going home for another hour." She said still smiling at Timmy.

Y/n and Tom nearly lost their breath from trying not to laugh knowing well what she was doing.

"Oh thats okay, but what are you doing?" Y/n asked trying to not sound too suspicious.

"So like uhm uh it's school stuff." She said repeatedly looking back at Timmy trying to come up with something.

"Oh okay, anyways see you." Y/n said her goodbyes and after saying "bye love you," May ended the call.

"Your sister might just get laid tonight." Y/n said putting her phone back into her pocket.

"Oh shut up." Tom said rolling his eyes and the two chuckled as they walked out of the school theatre and into the hall.

They left the front doors together strangely talking about banana peels as they saw one on the floor on their way to the parking lot.

"I see your bike is no longer in hiding." Y/n said looking at the polished black motorbike that was now parked near a car.

Tom smiled and walked towards it, checking for any dents and scratches with his hands inside his pockets he said:

"Let's get you home then."