A/N- I have been waiting FOREVER to upload this chapter, it is my favourite and once you have read it you will understand why it is. Sorry for it being ridiculously long.

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Aneisha's P.O.V

When I woke up the next morning I couldn't have ever remembered a time in my life where I had been happier….. Or more nervous. I don't know why I was nervous, I never get nervous, but I do suppose that this is different; it's to do with heart not the head.

In the afternoon around 4:30, Frank came to sign my hospital discharge papers. We were walking out of the hospital when Frank decided to ask me

"Where am I taking you? Home or-"

"Tom's take me to Tom's. We have things to discuss." I said.

"Okay," He said.

Once we got to the van very little words were spoken although there was the occasional turn here or that way's shorter. It was only a ten minute drive but it seemed to drag out for a century. When we finally got there I thanked Frank and bounded up the stairs to the front door. I knocked on the door and hoped desperately that this was the right choice. It was Sunday so I hoped he was home. His mum opened the door and so I asked.

"I'm Aneisha, one of Tom's friends. Is he home currently? If so could I please talk to him."

"He's been up in his room for days and I haven't managed to speak to him but maybe talking to a friend might help, I mean he started to get better when the Zoe girl came over every once a week. At least he was eating more than chocolate bars. Oh sorry it's the room straight up there," She said.

"Thank you," I said before going up to Tom's room and knocking on the door.

He came and opened the door but when he saw that it was me he couldn't disguise the hurt in his voice when he asked;

"How are you feeling?"

"Better than I was before I really only have a headache now," I said.

"How much did it hurt… the incident, when I-" He said turning and walking back into his room and pressing play on whatever game he was playing on his computer.

"Do you want the truth?" I asked.

"Yes," He replied not turning his head away from the game he was playing.

"Like hell. It hurt like absolute hell. In more ways than one," I said.

That caught his attention.

"What do you mean more ways than one?" He questioned.

"The emotional hurt that you actually could do something like that was so much worse than the actual pain is caused," I explained, "But when you told me that… when you told me that you loved me and that you were sorry, I thought that maybe I could forgive you."

"So did you forgive me? Or did you just use your skills of lying to convince me that you had?" He asked.

"How can I hold a grudge against you? As soon as you walked through my hospital room door and saw your face you were forgiven." When I said this Tom actually paused his game and looked at me.

"I didn't want to do what I did, but the Crime Minister her torture was painful, she broke me. I didn't want to do what I did to you because how could I do that to the person I love," Tom said.

What oh crap! Wait did I hear that correctly? Wait… Isn't this what I wanted? What am I going to do? I pondered desperately. I thought of the thing that I had wanted to do for as long as I could remember.

"Aneisha?... Aneisha?, Are you okay?" Tom asked, "Look I know you probably don't feel the same way but that's somethi- " He said before I mustered up all the courage I could find and I kissed him. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time, long before I woke up in hospital and long before Tom was kidnapped. We broke apart and I said,

"You don't know how long I've wanted to do that," I said.

Tom just smiled and laughed before asking, "Do you want to stay for dinner?"

"As long as your parents are cool with it, mine are out of town" I replied.

"I'm sure Mum won't mind and Dad's on a business trip but there are two people I might need to haggle with," Tom said before there was a knock on the door, "Speak of the devils." He said opening the door to reveal two girls that looked about the ages of 6.

"These are my sister's. There 6 years old," Tom said.

"Six and 3 quarters to be precise," One of them said.

"And you owe me a pound," one of them said to the other.

"Meet my sisters Charlotte," He said motioning to the one angrily digging money out of her pockets, "and Sophie," He said motioning to the other girl who was happily snatching the money out of her sister's hand.

"What was the bet this time?" Tom asked.

"Whether you would open your door or not, considering you've barley come out all week and all I could hear last night was Call of Duty," Sophie said.

"How do they know what Call of Duty is?" I asked.

"They climbed out their window around the house, into my room and went through my game stash last week," Tom replied.

"How did they do that because I'm presuming you wouldn't of been the person who taught them," I questioned.

"To this day I still don't know how they found out that the kitchen cupboard has a false back and that if they move it to the side you can spy on the neighbor's, how they found the secret passageways that lead underneath the house or how long they had been following me on twitter before I took any notice. They're very sneaky for their age," he said.

"I'm not going to disagree with you on that point," I agreed.

We then went downstairs and I met Tom's mum.

"You must be rather special to have been able to get him out of his mood so quickly. It took Zoe a month,"

I blushed slightly and looked up at Tom who looked at me. It was a look that said even to a stranger 'you'll never know how much'.

"So Aneisha do you want to stay for dinner? I'm making Pastry Triangles,"

"Yeah thanks that would be great," I replied.

"I love Pastry Triangles!" Tom said.

"I was making them to try to lure you out of your room, but that won't be needed any more," she said.

We spent the rest of the night talking and eating and having Tom's sisters show me how they got into his room via the window and several other things that they shouldn't be able to do. But eventually I had to go home.

"It's getting late and I'm really tired. So I'm going to go home, but thank you for dinner it was lovely, I very much enjoyed it," I said.

"Oh, yes I do suppose it is getting rather late, I lost track of time. Thank you for staying over for dinner and getting Tom to be social and well… happier," His Mum said.

"My pleasure, really," I said.

"Do you want a lift home?" She asked.

"No thank you. I think I'll walk," I replied.

"I'll go too. I could use some fresh air," Tom said.

"Last time you said that you disappeared for 2 weeks," His Mum said, "And then spent the following weeks moping around like a zombie."

"Don't worry Mum. I'll be back by 9:30,"

And with that we left I waved Tom's mum goodbye.

We started walking down the street hands intertwined basking in the moonlight.

"I have a question?" Tom said.

"Yeah, go ahead," I replied

"Do we tell Dan and Zoe about us?"

"How much hell did we give them about the whole Romeo and Juliet thing?"

"A lot."

"So how much hell will they give us about being together?"

"More, but look I still think we should tell them, they're our team mates, best friends. I think they need to know, they have a right to know," Tom said.

"Okay then, we'll tell them, but I'm pretty sure they'll catch on after a while anyway. I think they had bets going at the hospital," I said.

"Doesn't seem like a Zoe thing to do."

"Threatening to literally drag you out of your house to the hospital doesn't seem like a Zoe thing," I remind him, "Where here," I say motioning to the house

"I'm glad Zoe threatened to drag me there otherwise I wouldn't be here right now," Tom said turning to face me before kissing me, it was soft and sweet and reminded me of why I felt the way I did about him in the first place.

We parted and I smiled at him before saying,

"I'll see you tomorrow," I said unlocking the door and walking inside. I was happier than I had been in a long time and I could tell that Tom was too.