The Scandal (Thomas Brodie Sangster)

The Hoard

"Welcome to a video I am being forced into," Y/n says sitting on a small office chair with Thomas in a chair beside her holding his coffee mug in hand.

"Forced is a strong word," He says

"I'm under duress" she complained

"You're not under duress. All I said was you're not allowed to go and get dinner until you finish this task." he laughs

"I'm being held hostage" she complained "For those who don't know we have moved into what we are hoping is going to be our forever home. Mostly because London is expensive. and you don't have a lot of space for the money you pay and with twin girls we are going to need a lot of space so we have bought ourselves a big house outside of the London borough with lots of space, and we are still in the unpacking process"

"Almost done"

"almost. takes a long time"

"And given that we had two girls, all out stuff and our animal's packing was a bit mad"

"Yeah, we sold our house a lot faster than we thought we would have already bought this place and the guy who bought our house is going to be turning it into flats for his daughters for UNI and needs us out... like. Immediately. So everything very much got thrown in boxes in bags and shoved in a lorry within maybe two days"

"Literally a weekend we had packed... like our really precious family stuff that mostly lives in display cabinets anyway, but little else, and on Friday he told us yah he needs us out, and our lorry left and came here on Monday so we literally packed our lives up over a weekend which was very very hard to do."

"I was convinced we would forget something massive but we didn't. We ended up getting it done and getting everything. However, that meant unpacking has just been utter chaos because nothing went into boxes with any planning so now stuff is just kinda everywhere. Like the toaster was in a bedroom box. No idea why."

"And one of the casualties of this organization was my large impressive makeup collection. I went on Amazon on Friday and bought one well this thing" she explained wheeling a large makeup trolley case into view "I bought this case it's like what makeup artists have but I bought it purely on the fact that we had to move my whole makeup collection and set up and this had padding and wheels and everything so I thought this would be better than just throwing it all in a box, and you know prime delivery"

"Issue is you did just throw it in there"

"I did everything very much and was just stuffed in this and then this was loaded on the lorry so it is... madness. But now we have our new house and we actually have a beautiful walk-in wardrobe I mean it is the most beautiful thing ever, and in the wardrobe we have my new vanity set up behind me and I now need to unpack all of my make up into the new vanity"

"and?" he glared

"and... Throw some away. Because I just threw everything in a mess and I haven't had a good clear out of my makeup...."

"Say it."

"...Like four years. Maybe five."

"And that was a small clear out because you were pregnant and told you couldn't use certain things so you threw like a few bits away but that's it. I know for a fact some of this stuff you have had way way longer than you should"

"So I'm going to unpack my makeup into my vanity and... get rid of the old stuff."

"or no dinner"

"Or no dinner" she nods

"I'm here mostly to make sure you do this. Cause if I leave you alone you're not gonna do it"

"Yes I will" she pouts

"No you will not" he chuckled. "You might throw away like two foundations and old nail polish if I leave you alone. I'm basically here as a voice of reason to force you to do it"

"You're gonna make me get rid of a lot aren't you"

"Yes."

"Nooooo"

"Yes. You have too much."

"Noo" she whined "For clarification, I do have... Hoarding tendencies There is a history of hoarding in my family. Makeup is one of the things I really struggle to get rid of just because in my mind... It's useful. Like I won't get rid of like a blue lipstick because what if I need it."

"I wouldn't say you're a hoarder because you know like hoarders will sit in a room full of stuff and not even realize it's there you are at least aware of it, I'd rather this than actual junk and like trash. makeup is your hurdle. You're not like this with toys, or with clothes, or shoes, or anything like that. I mean you're a bit like it with mugs, but makeup is the one thing you have trouble getting rid of. I will say though I don't completely blame you. I know you get a lot of makeup like PR and stuff so I know sometimes it's not your fault. That is more why I'm here. I know you struggle and I know part of your process and your support process is I need to be here to talk to you. You're the same with clothes I just sit and talk you through it because more than anything to just need to talk it out with someone and then you'll do the logical thing and get rid of it but if I leave you alone you just get wrapped up in your head and you don't vocalize it so you end up not doing it."

".... That got really sociological"

"I know what you're like though. I'm married to you. I know the support systems you need. You sit with me when I go through clothes for the exact opposite reason because left alone I will get rid of everything and then have like three shirts, so you remind me to keep stuff I need"

"Thank you for helping me"

"You're welcome" he smiled, giving her a kiss "Go on, you delay dinner the girls are gonna kill you. they are very excited"

"I know. Right, let's begin... somewhere"

"Where does anyone begin? At the beginning"

"Don't be a dick Thomas"

"Okay, why don't you start easiest"

"Okay easiest. I'd say that's likely eyeliner because I get through so much of it that I have a stock but most of its like unopened waiting for the current one to be used and eye liner has the shortest date"

"Does it?"

"Your meant to throw away your eye liner ever I think three months"

"Ohh damn"

"Yeah but most of these are unopened still sealed because I get through so much I always have stock"

"You have like four of the same eyeliner."

"I do. Because I get through so much and I like this brand and this specific product so I like being like okay this one's dead. I can start this one and I have time to reorder it or search the aslies of superdrug till I find another one." she explained

"Spoken like a true addict"

"Shut up Thomas" she snapped "I hate this eye liner but it's in date"

"But you just said you don't like it."

"I know but -"

"Sweetheart you have five eyeliners. You don't need it"

"Fine" she sighed throwing it away

"Good girl"

"Oohh I'm keeping my graphic liner pallet though"

"Gotta keep that it's cool"

"It is. It's so cool"