a realistic tommyinnit x reader

8 • porch

after becca dropped me off at my house, she went home to babysit her sister, and i sat at my desk and did homework. i had this unexplainable pit in my stomach all night. i couldn't really place the feeling. was it anxiety? sadness? anger? i had no idea why i would be upset in any way. i shook off the feeling and went to lay in my bed, and figured i should check in on tommy's date.

GAMER😈🥶

how's it going?
read 9:53

tommy? u there
read 9:55

if you don't answer i'm going to
assume ariel murdered you
read 9:59

that pit in my stomach grew deeper and more painful with every text i sent. what was he doing with ariel that was so important he could read my message but not text me back? i mean, that's unfair of him to make his friends worry. i sent becca a message and she said she hadn't talked to him either. what kind of guy leaves his friend on read? i sighed and collected myself and my thoughts. i'm sure he's fine. you're overreacting, he's his own person.

GAMER😈🥶

alright. well text me when you get home.
delivered 10:04

i sat up on my bed and looked at myself in the mirror on my wall. i had finished my homework at this point, and really had no idea what to do with the rest of my night. right on cue, my dog, ava, started scratching at my bedroom door, and i immediately smiled and rushed to the door to give her as many pets as possible. maybe i just need to get out of the house. yeah, that'll help. i grabbed my mace at the sight of how dark it had gotten outside, and hurried downstairs, grabbing avas leash and clipping it to her collar. as soon as i opened the door i was hit with a cool breeze. it was colder than it usually was in october, but i knew i needed the fresh air to sort out whatever issues were going on in my abdomen.

ava and i began our walk down the street. i let her stop at whatever mailbox or tree she wanted to sniff, taking the time to breathe in the cool air, and feeling the knot in my stomach come undone. as we turned onto tommy's street, i had honestly forgotten that he even lived there, i was so absorbed in laughing at the way ava was getting caught in her leash, or the way she would growl at any passing squirrel. i was weirdly having a lot of fun on this walk. as i walked down the street, and ava lagged behind trying to eat the grass growing in the sidewalk cracks, a voice called my name from the shadows. "ava?" i jumped back, causing ava to bark. i pulled the pepper spray out of my pocket and held it up, ready to fight a bitch. "DONT SHOOT DONT SHOOT PLEASE IM SORRY." i crackly voice screeched from a house. wha- tommy?

i squinted in the dark and spotted him, sitting criss-cross on his porch with his arms in the air like i had an actual gun pointed at him. i lowered the weapon and creeped towards him, barely able to see him considering the nearest streetlight was out. as i climbed his porch steps and got closer i saw how upset he looked. he wasn't crying, but he may as well have been. his body was slumped in on itself, and he looked like a kid that just got told he can't be a tiger when he grows up.

without a word, but with so many questions, i sat down across from him. we just sat for many minutes, and i began to understand what had happened. he wasn't responding to my texts, he was home far too early, and i put two and two together. it made me sad. i needed to say something.

"you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to. i can go home if you'd like, but do you wanna tell me what happened?" i asked it quietly, afraid of this mood i had never seen him in. i genuinely couldn't name a single time that he had been upset about something for more than 30 seconds before moving on. this was different. his eyes were fixated on his lap and i thought for a second he hadn't heard me.