My Brother's Best Friend

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You woke up to the smell of food and with a pounding headache from how much you drank at the party the Hollands threw the night before.

You looked around and realized you were in Tom's room, the one at his house. You grabbed some sweatpants and a t-shirt from his dresser and pulled them on before going to meet him downstairs.

"Good morning, tipsy." he said as he saw you walk in, still cooking.

"Shut up." you said holding onto your forehead and he laughed. "How drunk was I last night?" you asked.

"Well at one point I convinced you to try and bite your own nose..." he tried to contain his laugh as he turned the pancake.

"Then what happened?" you asked, leaning against the kitchen counter next to him and watching him.

"You were rolling around on the floor for an hour screaming 'It's getting away, it's getting away!'" he laughed. "It was hilarious, you should've seen yourself!" he shook his head wiping a tear away.

"I hate you more than words can express." you said now trying to contain your own laughter.

He put the pancakes on the plates grabbed them and turned to look at you, "Darling, we both know you love me." he smirked and walked to the dining table.

You playfully rolled your eyes, followed him and sat down in front of him.

"Why didn't Haz bring me home?" you asked before drowning down the pill and the water he had prepared for you on the table.

"He had to take home Addison. She got pretty wasted too." he answered taking a bite from his food.

"Really?" he nodded. You were surprised since she wasn't the type to get drunk. "Man, I missed it." he laughed.

After that you heard your phone ring so you picked it and looked at the notification. The most was from instagram, since you're a model you were used to that, but you had gotten a message from a person you absolutely didn't want to talk to and one from your brother asking you if you were okay.

You answered your brother first, telling him you were fine before answering the other person.

After a while you looked up from your phone.

"Tom?" you said forcing a genuine smile.

"I know that face, what did you do?" he asked after looking up at you.

"Ehmm... you know my ex Kyle?" you asked awkwardly chuckling.

"You mean the asshole that cheated on you?" he asked clenching his jaw.

"Yes." you nodded.

"What about him?"

"Well he just texted me-" you started just to be cut off by him.

"What does he want?"

"Well if you would've let me speak, you would've known by now." you said sarcastically grinning. "He said he wants me back." he opened his mouth to speak but you shut him up. "Ah ah let me finish." he closed his mouth again."I obviously said no to him, but he said he wouldn't leave me alone. So I told him I had a boyfriend."

"You don't have a boyfriend." he said pushing his eyebrows together.

"I know. I lied so he would leave me alone, but he wanted to know who it is," you paused, "and I told him it was you." you said quickly.

"What?!" he said leaning forward.

"Yes, I know and I'm really sorry." you apologized.

"It's okay. If it means he will leave you alone now, then it's fine." he said sitting back in his chair.

"But that's not it." you smiled innocently."He didn't believe me so he asked if we could go on a double date and I agreed." you looked at the ground. "So I wanted to ask you if you would help me and fake date me for a while." you looked up at him, expecting him to be mad, but he was just there looking at you with a big smile on his face. "So will you?" you asked.

"Okay." he said simply.

"Really?" you asked.

"Yes." he nodded.

You both stood up and you hugged him tight.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the best!" you said before kissing his cheek.

"Anything for you." he said.

You stared at each other for a while, your hands around his neck and his on your waist. You felt how he started to lean in. You did to, but then a person came to your mind.

Harrison.

You cleared your throat and looked down before you both let go.

"We should tell Harrison about this, before he freaks out." you laughed awkwardly.

"Yeah, absolutely." he laughed awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck.

After the awkward moment you finished breakfast and Tom drove you home.

"Come over tomorrow so we can build up some rules." you said grabbing your bag.

"Rules?" he questioned.

"Yes," you nodded, "rules Holland."

"What kind of rules?"

"We'll see tomorrow." you gave him a quick side hug. "See you tomorrow." you said opening the door and getting out.

"Yeah, bye babe." you heard him say as you were about to close the door. You reopened it and bent down to looked at him.

"Babe?"

"You're my girlfriend now, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but you don't have to pretend when no one's around." you said.

"Well if I don't, I won't get used to it."

You frowned and shook your head, "Whatever. See you tomorrow."

"Bye." he said before you closed the door.