𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐍 - TOM HOLLAND

06

june 2016

IT WAS THE NIGHT OF THE OSCARS, tom, nick and zendaya were all invited. zendaya brought laura as her plus one, tom brought jacob, and nick brought ross. tom had presented an award and all around everyone had a good time. they all decided they would go to the after party to celebrate. ross had left nick, he had to go to the studio to work on his upcoming album.

once they were at the after party, they immediately lost each other. each of them being pulled in different directions of the enormous crowd. 

it had been an hour since they've all been split up and nick found himself talking amongst other celebrities when he spotted tom. he was about twenty-five feet away, and he was standing alone, a little part of him felt bad. not many people knew who he was since his movie has yet to be released, so he didn't know too many people here. nick watches as a man walked up to tom, led him over near the bar to none other than madonna herself. tom eventually led madonna to the dance floor and nick laughed as he watched tom embarrass himself.

about two minutes passed by of tom just doing a two step and madonna looking so unimpressed that nicholas felt bad enough to help him. he got up and walked over to the two, tom had yet to notice. nick put his hand on tom shoulder, he stopped doing his two step, looked at nick, and smiles. madonna smiled.

"nicholas! how are you my dear?" she questioned, a wave of relief washed over tom's face as he watched the two singers hug. 

"im doing great, how about you? its been so long." nick responded. he put his hands behind his back and pointed to tom the seating area he just came from. he got the signal and made his way over there. tom watched as the singer laughed and danced with madonna, it wasn't any kind of formal dance, they were having genuine fun. tom smiled, but quickly caught himself and took a sip of his drink.

about twenty minutes later nicholas came back and took a seat next to tom, the singer let out a sigh and leaned back, twenty minutes dancing in those shoes would do that to you. 

"thank you," tom said, "for saving me, i was completely embarrassing myself." he laughed.

nick laughed too, "oh i know, but its no biggie," nick smiled and tom did the same. suddenly the music stopped and the dj spoke into the mic.

"i have been told to evacuate the place, apparently citizens have found the after party and are bombarding the security guards. please exit safely and in an orderly fashion," he finished.

tom and nick looked at each other, of course this would happen when they are stuck with each other away from the others. they watched as everyone got up heading towards the entrance, nicholas scanned the club, spotting a back exit nobody was using. he did something that caught tom off guard, grabbed his hand. it shocked nick too, but he only had tom in this hectic situation and there wasn't any way in hell he was going to lose him. 

"come on," nick said as he led tom through the crowd of celebrities, maneuvering them through until they got to the back exit. he pushed it open, and him and tom were now standing in an alley way. they both took a deep breath, they didn't realize how hot it was in there until they got to the fresh air. 

"i'll call a car," tom said as he took out his phone, nicholas immediately grabbed it from the actors hands. 

"no you will not call a car! we will have to go out to the front in front of the entire crowd of people," he said and tom snatched his phone back.

"well than what do you plan on doing, nicholas?" tom said raising his voice.

"let me text Laura, and see what's going on with her," the singer said as he took out his phone, "no, no, no, you've got to be fucking kidding meee," he lamented. 

"what?" tom asked putting his hand in the air. 

"my phone is fucking dead," nick said. he stomped his foot on the ground in frustration. "dammit."

"mines at 20," tom said.

"well get off of it in case of an emergency," nicholas said. the actor looked at him in disbelief.

"an emergency?" he asked, "this is an emergency!" he yelled.

"look tom, i know there's probably a million other people we'd both rather be here with right now, but we have to stay calm and work together," nick said.

"a couple thousand people cross my mind right now." tom said making nicholas smile and shake his head. "so what's the plan?"

"we walk." nick said simply beginning to walk in the opposite direction of the front of the club where the crowd was, tom stood there for a second, nicholas turned around. "lets go holland, upper east side is about a five mile walking distance from here. im at least trynna make it back to the apartment by midnight." the singer said, tom caught up to him and they continued their walk.

they had walked about a mile, not much talking was spoken between the two, just nicholas telling tom what street they were going to turn on or one of them telling the other to stop complaining. 

they were on the third mile when it started raining, nicholas's feet began to ache due to his very uncomfortable shoes, so he took them off.

"you're going to walk in the rain barefoot?" tom questioned, watching as the singer took off his socks too.

"could you walk three miles with these Versace not-comfortable-at-all shoes?" nick asked and the actor shook his head, "exactly, so i don't have another option," he said. it had started to down pour, nick stopped as they reached a huge puddle, tom stopped as well, giving the other boy a questioning look. not even a second later nicholas jumped in the puddle, water splashing all over his custom Donatella Versace made suit and gross water getting all on his feet, but he didn't care. he was stuck in this mess, he might as well make the best of it. tom watched as nick looked to be having the time of his life splashing and dancing on the gigantic puddle.

"come on holland! lighten up!" nick shouted. he was barely audible over the rain and thunder. they were both drenched from head to toe so tom didn't see what harm it would do if he'd join him. nick clapped as tom took off his shoes and socks. they both splashed and danced in the rain, and in that moment, both of them forgot about everything. nicholas forgot about his struggling relationship with ross, he forgot about how much tour has been stressing him out wanting everything to be perfect, they both forgot about their dislike for each other. nick slipped on the wet surface of the sidewalk and fell into tom. he held onto him with both of his arms, there was a moment of silencie between the two boys, only the sound of the rain and thunder could be heard. nick's eyes looked where tom's arms were.

"we should get going! its 11 already!" tom shouted over the rain having nick nodding his head as an answer. "i could carry you if you want?" nick shot a look at tom raising his eyebrows. "just a lil piggyback ride." tom said, "don't worry, we still won't be friends after it," tom shouted making nick laugh.

"only if you keep that promise." the singer said look at the pinky tom had held out.

"i pinky promise." the actor said, they intertwined their pinkies.

"i guess a lil piggy back ride wouldn't hurt... "