xxPUDDxx - well, it might take a while for some sense to be knocked into Tom :/
106 Dannys POV
I could see Toms eyes tearing up in the window, so I reached out and put my hand on his knee gently, stroking my thumb over it. "sorry for bringing it up, but I had to know, I was so worried about you, I worry about you constantly. I know you can, sort of, look after yourself, but I still worry." I sighed, thankful he wasn't pushing my hand away. Of course, I didn't get a reaction at all, but I felt better trying to talk about it, at least Tom could hear that I cared about him, even if it didn't register, like the kiss didn't.
I really had to talk to him about that too, but I was so scared to, I didn't want to freak Tom out more, or make him think the wrong idea. I had no idea on how to go about it, or anything, but if there was a perfect time to try, now was it. "Tom, there's something else I want to talk to you about. I want, no, we need to talk about it. I'm probably going to go about this the completely wrong way, but I need to talk to you about our kiss before Christmas." I started, seeing Tom visibly wince. He gulped, then opened his mouth, so I waited, excitedly waiting to see if he was going to say something.
At first, only a few, barely intelligible noises came from him, that didn't make any sense at all. "I-It was a m-mistake. Its o-okay, I-I know." Tom finally whimpered, slowly getting up and moving off from the window sill. I followed along behind him, following him all the way from the bedroom to the front room. The decorations were now down, and my present had been unwrapped, I took a second to feel pride in the fact that Tom was using the lamp I had made him. I had glued a load of toys to the lamps base, making it look like they were climbing up to the light bulb, then spray painted it all black, so it looked like they were supposed to be there.
"that kiss wasn't a mistake Tom, I meant it, and I mean it when I say I love you. Cause I do, and I meant every part of that kiss, I did it on purpose." I snapped myself out of it to face him, resting my hand on his shoulder. Tom shrugged me off and continued to face the window, looking out into the garden, still refusing to meet my eyes, even behind his long fringe. It didn't stop me seeing the tears welling up in his eyes though. "but you didn't kiss back, you didn't even react. It broke my heart." I whispered, trying to make him turn around, meeting resistance. Tom took a deep, long breath in. "don't lie to me." Was all he said, before he walked back off upstairs, locking himself into his bathroom. I didn't see him for the rest of the day.
107 Harrys POV
Days past until the familiar old minivan parked outside Toms house, ready to take us off to the record companies building so we could have a meeting over what was going to happen now. We were all worried about this, because what if we were thrown right back into our old hectic schedule? Would that really make Tom, or Danny, snap? Or would Tom see the first opportunity to run away and take it, before we could stop him? No, he wouldn't do that, he had slipped out of our house the other night and gone back to his own place, hopefully he wouldn't try to run!
By the time me and Dougie got into the minivan, Tom was already inside, talking with Fletch and Tommy, 2 out of our 4 managers (I used to swear that we had 4 so there was always 1 person watching over 1 of us, so we didn't cause too much trouble) he had a fake smile plastered to his face, and had obviously only started talking this morning, as his voice was still croaky, like he had a cough. "morning boys! Wheres Danny then?" Fletch asked, looking away from whatever he was talking to Tom about. "dunno, he could still be sleeping, or eating his breakfast." I shrugged, sending Tom a strange look, why was he acting so differently around Fletch and Tommy than how he acted with us?
"yeah, he is always the late one now that Harry kicks me out of bed!" Dougie joked, covering up that he was just as confused as I was at this strange behaviour. "sorry! Overslept cause I went to bed late!" Danny ran and jumped into the car, settling himself in the seat next to Toms. "as usual then." I rolled my eyes, putting Toms strange (normal?) behaviour out of my mind by taking the mick out of Danny. "shut it, I couldn't sleep." Danny got defensive, slumping into his chair tiredly.
"alright, well, we better get a move on, or we're going to be late for the meeting. Buckle up boys." Fletch ignored Dannys behaviour, turning around in his seat as Tommy drove off. The drive was made in silence, to be honest it felt a little awkward, all of us keeping a watchful eye on Tom, who seemingly happily sat looking at the world passing by. I guess he hadn't seen the world properly in a while, not since he ran away, he had probably seen a darker side to the world, a scarier side. It must have been good to see the better side of it again, and not be trapped inside the dark streets, where all the dangers were.