The Strings Attached

Part 9

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"I was in love with him." She says to her best friend.
She looks at her with a shocked expression. "Did you say was?"
She doesn't talk for a moment. "I think I did."

"Okay guys we have been flying for god knows how long. Tell me the truth, where are we going." Tom grumbles as he wakes up.

Harrison and I exchange glances. I shrug my shoulders and let out a sigh. "We are going to London." I say.

Toms eyes lighten up and he goes speechless. "For filming?" He asks confused.

Harrison laughs from next to me. "No Tom, to see your family."

Tom smiles and I can see some tears of joy in his eyes. He really must be happy about this. "For real? How did you guys pull that off?"

"Mum help us plan it. We are staying for four days I think." I say and look over at Harrison. He nods meaning I was right. "Then you come back to Atlanta to finish filming then we start the tour."

Tom leans back in his seat with a giant grin across his face. He stares at the seat in front of him not saying anything at first. "This is great."

"We know Tom." I say and laugh.

We have about an hour to two hours left of the flight before we land. It's dark outside and probably around the middle of the night in London. Tom starts to drift off again and it just leaves Harrison and I awake.

"The book is amazing so far. I love it." Harrison says, looking at me right in the eye.

I smile back at him. "Thanks. I love writing. It helps me get my ideas and feelings out there."

"I bet. I've always tried writing things but I just never have the push of motivation to finish what I start. I have a bunch of unfinished story ideas in a desk at my house in London." Harrison chuckles, looking forward.

"That's how I used to be. Then I had one giant push of motivation and I wrote that book. I never dreamed that I would be where I am today." I sigh.

Harrison doesn't talk for a moment. He looks like he's thinking again. "You've changed Alexa. Your not the perky, crazy outgoing little girl I was best friends with anymore. Your grown up, and you found your path. I'm happy for you."

I look away and blush slightly at what Harrison just said. I mean, he is right. I'm not who I used to be but I have grown up into a more mature person. But just the way Harrison said it, made my stomach rupture with butterflies.

"That's Harrison." I'm finally able to say. "That means a lot. I'm glad I have a friend like you."

I can defiantly notice the shade in Harrison's cheeks deepen in colour when I say that. I don't point it out but Harrison blushing makes me blush and it just creates this weird atmosphere of awkwardness.

But I love it.

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"Ladies and gentlemen we are making our final descendent into London. Please turn off all devices and stay seated." The lady says over the intercom of the plane.

I gently shake Toms shoulder so he would wake up. Finally, he slowly opens his eyes and stretches out.

"Are we here?" Tom asks in a very groggy voice.

"Yeah we will be landing in a few minutes." I say and out my laptop and phone in my carry on bag.

Harrison does the same thing then pushes his bag under the seat so it doesn't go flying out when we land. After about ten minutes we are on the ground in London, just waiting to get off the plane.

Slowly we get off the plane. Tired people dragging their feet from a very long time and energetic people waiting to see their families again. Harrison, Tom and I were in the very middle of that mix. We go to the baggage area and wait for our bags to unload.

"They aren't here yet." Tom says, looking around in the crowd of people to find our family.

MyOtherTwinsTwin

Where are you guys??

Hold your horses
Alexa, we just pulled
up.

Mkay

"I just texted Harry. They just got to the airport now. They will be here in a few minutes." I say and push my phone into my back pocket.

Our bags come and all we have are tiny suitcases only packed with a bit of clothes. We left everything back in Atlanta since we weren't going to be gone for long.

We where walking down the hall of the airport, waiting for mum, dad and our brothers when we heard a shrill scream.

"TOM!" I could instantly tell it was Paddy screaming from in front of us.

Tom goes running towards Paddy and scoops him into the biggest bear hug I've ever seen.

"How my little man doing?" Tom says and messes up his hair.

"Pretty good." Paddy gleams. He looks over Toms shoulder and looks me right in the eye. "ALEXA!"

I drop my bags and hug him really tight, since I haven't seen my baby brother in months. Tears flow from my eyes, tears of joy that I'm seeing my family again.

"Where's mum, dad, Harry and Sam?" I ask Paddy as he pulls away from the hug.

"Your favourite twin is here Alexa!" Someone says from a bit in front of me. I look up to see Sam smiling walking towards me.

I run up to him and hug him tight. "I did say you were my favourite twin Sam." I laugh and pull away.

Sam shrugs and chuckles. "Close enough."

I can see Tom hugging Harry right now, and I turn around to see Harrison talking to Paddy. I smile and sigh. I've missed my family.

Harrison heads over to his place to see his family for a bit and we all head back to the over crowded house in the south west end of London.

"Man, I've missed this place." Tom says as we walk into the front door of the house. He drops his bags and kneels down on the floor. "Where's my baby girl!" Tom says in a baby voice.

Tessa comes bolting from down the hall and skids into Toms arms. Her tail is wagging uncontrollably and Tom has many tears streaming down his face.

"Does it feel good to be back?" Sam asks from beside me, putting an arm around my shoulder.

"Does it ever."

A/N: I watched Homecoming last night then today my sister wanted to watch it so here I am again lmao.
SHE DIDNT KNOW TOM WAS BRITISH FML