lovely neighbour | tommyinnit

nineteen.

"Park?" Tommy said as he held up a dog leash for me to hold. I laughed and grabbed it from him and put one hand in my pocket to keep it warm.

He had huge dogs, but I could still remember when they were normal sized. They were cute yet scary at the same time, which really confused me. To avoid or to pet was the question.

"I can't believe they're really gone now," I said as I sat on one of the benches in the park.

"You make it sound like they're dead," Tommy said. Unintentionally making the sad scenario funny. I jabbed his arm and laughed.

"Y/N?" A voice called out to me. I looked up to see Jones running towards me.

"Oh, Jones," I said smiling at him trying to be polite.

"Hi, Aiden Jones and you are?" He held out a hand for Tommy to shake. Tommy, immediately shook his hand and started talking to him casually.

"So are you guys...," Jones asked.

"No," I replied quickly and looked away.

"Okay well nice to meet you two, I gotta go!" Jones said as he ran back to where he was in the first place.

"Who's he," Tommy asked.

"He's Aiden Jones," I replied trying to avoid what he actually meant.

"As in, what is he to you?" Tommy questioned further.

"You don't wanna know," I said as I got up, "Ice cream?"

We both walked towards the same ice cream parlour we went to once, but now we brought along two dogs.

"Are you TommyInnit?" A voice came from behind us. We both turned around to see a kid around 9-10 years old standing there with his phone out.

"Oh my gosh you are, can I get a photo?" The kid said eagerly. Tommy agreed so I took the kid's phone and helped them snap a picture.

"Famousinnit," I joked as we walked towards the ice cream parlour.

"Don't get too jealous," He said as he readjusted his grip on the leash. I smiled and rolled my eyes at him. We finished our ice creams and started to head back home.

"So the Aiden guy, you still haven't told me who he is," Tommy asked.

"He's my ex," I said looking down at Walter avoiding all eye contact with Tommy.

"Oh you've never told me you had a boyfriend," He said.

"It wasn't serious, not 'Bring Home To See My Parents' material if you know what I mean," I joked trying to lighten up the mood.

"Then what would be your example of 'Bring Home To See My Parents' material?" He asked.

"Probably someone like you," I said trying to sound as casual as I possibly could. Knowing that he liked me back gave me so much power, I could be so daring in my answers because I knew the feeling was mutual.

His cheeks flushed at my response, maybe it was just the cold weather but I could've sworn they'd gotten redder. That was, kinda cute.

We eventually got home and got ready for the night, I had an early day tomorrow so I slept through Tommy's screams.

"Does Tommy happen to have a YouTube channel?" Jacob suddenly asked me as i walked into class.

"Um yeah, I think so," Trying to sound like I didn't know much about his channel. I knew Tommy wasn't trying to keep the fact that he had a YouTube channel a secret, but then again he didn't go around talking about it openly to everyone.

"Did you know he plays Minecraft on that account? It's literally a kid's game!" He continued. I looked at him disapprovingly, as he scrolled through Tommy's YouTube channel cringing.

"But he's happy playing it, let's not judge him for that," I finally said to Jacob. He looked up at me and started playing one of Tommy's videos.

"Seriously Jake, stop it," Oliver backed me up as he took away Jacob's phone.

"Guys, are you seriously protecting the gaming nerd right now? He literally plays games to entertain 9 year olds," Jacob protested as he leaned back on his seat with his arms crossed

"And? What's so bad about that? It's still a form of entertainment Jakey," Izzy added on as she turned back to look at him. I was surprised that she wasn't siding with him.

"Whatever, sorry," Jacob said as Oliver handed back his phone to him.

Slowly, more students started to fill up the classroom and school started. I had a bad feeling about today...

Our first period was art, we still had the sculpture to complete. We were going to make a realistic version of my face. We were already done with most of my prominent features, like my eyes, nose and mouth. Today, we had to properly shape my head.

I went to the front of the class to collect our tools while Tommy went to the back of the class to collect the sculpture. I was a little scared that he would drop it, since it was so heavy. Surprisingly, he managed well enough to bring it to our table.

"I think my face is like this shape," I said as I carelessly drew on a piece of paper with a pencil.

"No, your face is more of a," Tommy said as he grabbed the pencil from me and carefully drew out a face shape. I touched my face and said, "You make it seem like my face was handmade by god."

"Well it looks like he took his time to make your face as perfect as possible," He answered as he started to make lines on our clay sculpture. I had to quickly turn out of his view as I could feel my face warm up.

That was so smooth.

We got our tools and started shaving off parts of the clay sculpture head to match my face shape. Tommy kept going at the face without looking at me for reference. It was as if my face was engraved in his head already.

"TommyInnit!" Someone shouted.

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