Just follow me (Tom Daley Fanfic)

Chapter 29 - Chaos at the airport

We are now going to Adelaide in Australia for a competition. The entire teamGB is meeting at London's airport and I cannot wait for this journey to start! I always have so much fun during trips with them. We drove from Plymouth with Tonia and Andy, the coach. And the second I see Chris, Jack, Alicia and the others in London, I can't keep myself from running to them to hug them all.

"Bonjour mademoiselle!" Says Chris in a horrific french accent. "How is my favorite French girl doing? Show me your baby bump!" He says hugging me tight.

"I am not showing my belly in the middle of an airport, Mears!"

"Who cares?"

"I do!"

"Please, just do it quickly" He begged

"But come on, I'm 5 months pregnant, you can see how big I am without having to pull up my sweatshirt!"

"Not really. It’s too thick! Pleeaasse!"

"Ok fine, but I won’t do it twice, so check fast ok?"

"Yep.  It’s beautiful! I just can’t believe you’re having a baby with TD and that you chose me to be the godfather" Chris says

"It can still change if you act like a stupid retard all the time", said Tom laughing

"Whatever, you both love me too much to do that!" Chris says. We didn't say anything, but deep down we knew how right he was!

We flew for 11h to Hong Kong where we had to wait for 8h before flying for almost 9h to Australia. That journey felt endless! It was nice because we were all friends having fun, pulling jokes at each others, playing games,... but at the same time we felt miserable after a while. For me, it was probably even worst because I couldn't't stay seated too long, so I had to stand up and walk in the plane, trying to stretch my legs as much as I could. During the flight, Tom warns me that his ex, Kassidy will be in Adelaide with us:

"I just have to warn you that we’ve kind of remained friends," he says

"Friends? With your ex? How come I’ve never seen her before then?"

"It’s not really friends; it’s more that we remained on good terms. And you didn’t see her because she got her shoulder injured and she couldn’t compete for months."

"And now she’ll be competing, ok. And what do you mean when you say you’ve remained friends?"

"It means that you don’t have to worry about her. I really don’t have any feelings for her at all! There’s never going to be anything between us again. But Kassidy being Kassidy, you can guess her behavior and everything"

"Her behavior? Just spill it out, Tom! What are your warning me about?" I spat starting to lose patience.

"She’s loud, she laughs a lot, she’s really tactile, she’s always touching everybody when she talks, hugging people, she’s a drama queen. So I don’t want you to go imagine things if you see her hugging me or laughing with me."

"Brillant… I’m sure I’m gonna love her." I said sarcastically

"Don’t be like that. She’s nice but that’s all"

"She’s lucky that, after all she’s done to you, you still think of her as being nice."

"Val, come on!"

"Ok, ok, let’s speak about something else because that starts to piss me off. But i got the message; i don’t have to worry about you being with her."

Since the Olympics, it got pretty crazy around Tom. He really became Britain's heartthrob and his fandom got so much bigger. But it wasn't until this trip to Australia that we really understood how insane it got! Since it was the 1st official trip following the Olympics, Tom kind of guessed it would be a little bit hectic at the airport, so he asks me not to worry and to hold on to his sweater. He knows how much I hate crowd, how it scared me. I don't really listen to him but as soon as we pass through the door, I see the amount of girls waiting for the team GB, and more precisely for Tom. There are so many of them, it is absolutely insane! They are all yelling, pushing each others, doing pretty much anything that could get them closer to Tom. I am completely petrified. Then, right away, I have to agree that Tom was right, and I grab his sleeve to be able to weave our way through the crowd. But at some point, a girl knocks me over. Unfortunately, I let go of Tom's sweater and fall on my knees. Tom doesn't notice right away that I'm not following him, he is busy signing autograph and being taken in pictures with his fans. It is only after a few seconds that he turns around and can't find me, so he starts to scream after me. Some girls around me try to help me, but 2 strong hands pick me up off the ground and put me back on my feet. It's Chris who then grabs my wrist and pull me towards the exit. Tom manages to find his way outside with us, and Chris, Tom and I sit on the backseat of the car. I dissolve into tears right away:

"You said I didn’t have to worry?! You left me there Tom!" I yelled at him

"I’m sorry my love, I didn’t expect it to be that crazy. I didn’t understand what was going on. I turned around and you weren’t there anymore. Why did you let go of my sweater?" Tom asks me

"She didn’t," said Chris. "She just got knocked over by some fans. She lost her balance and fell on the ground." 

"You FELL? Are you ok? What about the baby?" Tom said starting to panic

"I’m fine, I fell on my knees."

"I really am sorry. I should have protected you, and like an idiot, I didn’t even see you were on the ground. Did you, Chris, help her out of the airport?" Tom asks his friend

"Yes I did. I pulled her back on her feet and l led her outside."

"I wasn’t expected it to be that chaotic. The security wasn’t really prepare for that either. I’m so sorry you got scared. I saw it right away you looked terrified."

"Of course I was terrified; there was a sea of girls screaming the loudest they could, brandishing cameras into my face. We had to thread our way through a huge crowd!"

"She even got ask to be taken in photo with people and to sign autographs! You should have seen her face saying 'uh? An autograph? No!'" Chris says trying to talk with my accent

"Seriously, who would want a picture with me? And I’m not even talking about autograph!" I say

"You are kind of famous too now I guess. You’ve been in some tabloids; you are dating the sports heartthrob of the moment who got so much press coverage with the Olympics. So some people consider you as a celebrity". Says Chris

"Great, that’s just perfect…" i said ironically.