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❛ CHAPTER NINETEEN ! ❜
Trip to France!
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"Tori dear," Sarah Simons peaks her head inside her daughter's room, smiling unconsciously as she saw her daughter struggling with her luggage before turning around to face her mum. "Have you got everything ready? We're about to leave in a few."
Tori smiled, "Yes Mum, I just need help with the zipping part." she replied, pointing down at her suitcase with her thumb.
Without the two females noticing, Tommy had overheard their conversation as he walked passed by Tori's room. He retraced back his steps and stops in front of his sister's room. "I can help with that." He interjected. The mother and daughter turns their head in surprise to see Tommy standing by the door, towering over his mother from behind.
"Oh good you're here. Go help your sister pack, yeah? I'll be going down to prepare your breakfast quick." Mrs. Simons pats on his son's shoulder before leaving the room without waiting for a reply.
Tommy turns his head and smiled at his younger sister, who also gave him a identical smile. "What do you need help with again, smols?" he asked, approaching her to stand beside her.
"I need help with zipping."
He lets out a hum, tapping his fingers on top of the black colored suitcase. "Alright here-"
Tori helped her brother by sitting on top of it and watched him zip the suitcase easily. Tommy lets out a sigh as he wipes his nonexistent sweat. He shooed her away from the suitcase and pulled it off the bed.
"Jesus— have you been putting on rocks inside your luggage?" He mentally cursed as he 'attempted' to carry it.
She shots him a worried look, "No why?" she asked.
"Then why in the world is your bag so heavy? You'll only be gone for a week." He exclaimed loudly causing for the little girl to playfully roll her eyes at him.
"Thomas, I need clothes to wear there." She stated nonchalantly.
"Yeah but why so many?" He looked at her with a perplexed expression.
She gave him an obvious stare, "Because I can't wear the same outfit as always like you do with your red and white shirt." she crinkled her nose in distaste.
"What it's iconic!" He gasps at as if she had offended him. She just raised a pointed brow at him making him let out a sigh of defeat, grumbling under his breath."Alright, alright, princess." She shot him a glare as he tousled her hair before pushing the bag out of her door.
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"Is everything complete? No one has left anything behind?" Mr. Simons asked to his family. They were all in the car and were about to drive off to the airport.
Ms. Simons looks through her bag once more, "No I don't believe so," she replied. She turns her head around to look at her children, "How about you two rascals?" she asked.
Tommy shooked his head no, already knowing that he already got his phone inside his pocket. Tori's head perks up at the question, "Does the dogs include in that category?" she asked making the whole family burst into laughter.
"What? That was a genuine question, I really do want to bring Walter and Betty with us." She huffs, 'glaring' at her family. She thought she was intimidating them, but instead they just found her expression cute.
"Sorry sweetheart, we can't bring the dogs along with us as much as I wanted to." Mr. Simons chuckled.
She lets out sad huff and crosses her arms together, glancing at her brother. She narrowed her eyes at him, "You better give them goodnight kisses while I'm away."
Tommy playfully rolls his eyes, throwing an arm around her neck and started giving her the noogies to her horror. "Yes smols, I will even tell them spooky bedtime stories for you, if you want."
She crinkles her nose together but there was an evident smile on her face, "get off me!" she said.
Despite the urge of wanting to punch his side for messing with her hair, she just let him do it. She wanted for that moment to last long as she was going to miss her father and brother terribly.
"Children keep your arses down back there, we don't want this car to tip over because both of you." Their mother half jested at them. The two siblings looks at each other, sharing a small giggle and an identical smile with each other.
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"We're all set. Now, go say your goodbyes to your father and brother, darling." Her mother gently pushes her towards them. Tori's lips turn downwards as she walked over to hug her father first, while her mother smothered Tommy with hugs and kisses to his dismay. She could hear him protesting from the side.
"I'm gonna miss you dad." She murmured against her father's coat with a sad tone in her voice. Mr. Simons smiles gently, closing his eyes as he savors the warm hug. "I'm going to miss you as well, sweetheart."
She first lets go from the hug and gently smiled up at her father. Mr. Simons couldn't help but cup his hands on the sides of her cheeks, caressing it gently with his thumbs. "Stay safe out there, alright squirt? Don't forget to call us in the morning and night. And oh— have fun out there." He reminded her, smiling softly down at her.
The little girl couldn't help but giggle at him, "We will," she smiled. He ruffles her hair once more before turning to his wife. She reaverts her attention to the other side as she lets her parents have their moment. Hearing footsteps, she turns her head and unconsciously smiles up at her older brother.
"Hey" Tommy looks at her and nods his head slowly. "Hey" she replied. They continued to stare at each other in awkward silence before bursting out of laughter.
"Wh-what the heck Tori!"
"What?! I thought it was a staring contest or something!" She cackled. He laughs once more and walks closer to her. "Oh come here you," He gently wraps his arms around her, and leans down a bit as they both reciprocated a hug.
Tori closed her eyes as she deeply inhales onto her brother's shirt, smelling the faint cologne that always gives her comfort. She used to steal one of his bottles without him noticing because of how good it was, but it wasn't too long when she caught by him. After knowing the reason why his bottle of cologne keeps on disappearing, the next morning he bought her a bottle of his favorite cologne as a early birthday present to her. She obviously loved it as she always uses it anywhere.
"I wish you could come with us." Tommy could hear the sadness lace onto her voice making him tighten arms around her slightly. He leans down and softly plants a kiss on top of her blonde head, not caring that his neck was aching from looking down. "Me too smols, me too..." he sighs, placing his chin onto the top of her head.
"Take care of Mum for me, will you?"
"Of course Tom."
"Kids it's time to go!"
"Hang on Mum, just one more minute." They continued to hug in silence, savoring this precious moment once more. It will be a long time before they could be able to see each other again. Their parents watched the two with a fond smile on their faces.
Tori takes a deep breath, flashing him a tight small smile as they let go from the hug. "You better not miss me that much Mister Innit." The latter lets out a smirk and shook his head.
"Jokes on you, you're not that memorable to miss." he teasingly said. She lets out a scoff before playfully slapping his arm. "Oh how rude!" She said, but knowing him, he was definitely joking.
He lets out a chuckle and smiled. He stares at her for a moment and ruffles her golden blonde hair affectionately. "Love you, smols." He said.
Tori smiled at him, nuzzling her head closer to his hand. "I love you too, bubba." she whispered.
They got into a one more quick group hug as family before the Tori and her mother separate from them.
"Good bye Dad, Tommy! We'll be back as tea time comes." Tori waves at them before quickly following her mother to the entrance. Once they were at the entrance, she looks back at them once more and waves. They waved at back at her, watching as she turns around and follow her mother inside the airport.
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It had been few days since his mother and sister left for Paris. The house has gotten a little bit quiet without the females in the house. Even though he's been used to this in the past, he still couldn't help but feel the sadness in his heart. He missed both of his mother and sister terribly. His father seems to notices this, so he tried his best to hangout with him as much as he can, turning it into a father and son bonding moment. Of course, Tommy was happy that he got this time to spend with his father.
"Tommy, we demand to see the child."
Tommy looks at the donation, bringing down his canned of coke down on his desk. "Oh Tori? She's in Paris right now with Mum. She has a modelling project there and she'll be gone for a week. She wanted me to tell you guys that you shouldn't miss her too much." he replied, watching the chat's messages at his other monitor.
"Am I sad? No of course I'm not sad! Who in the world would miss that little rascal." He fake 'grimaced' towards the camera before letting out a small laugh. He looked away from the camera and started typing on his keyboard, acting like he was searching up something but in reality— he was not. He did missed her terribly, but he didn't want to show it that much since he had to continue act his 'persona' on stream.
"Anyway chat一"
His blue ocean eyed averts towards his phone as it buzzed indicating that he had just received a text message. "Hold on chat." He said, grabbing his phone and opened the message box.
Without noticing, the corner of the teen's lip started lifting unconsciously as the teen's eyes stared at the message with a fond gaze.
Midget Innit
hi bubba! sorry i wasn't able to answer your call earlier, had a busy day walking around france with mum. i'm currently watching your stream right now at the hotel. i hope you win in today's MCC match! i'm sure you'll do great today. Win or lose, i will always be proud of you :D
also p.s. turn that frown upside down! it doesn't suit you at all, king! (did i do dat right?) anyway, miss you already! love you and good luck (♡˙︶˙♡)
He lets outa chuckle before looking up at his stream. "Just got a text message from smols. She's currently watching the stream." he said, playfully rolling his eyes at the spamming of 'awws' from the chat.
"Enough with that 'AWWW' farming— that's disgusting! Anyway, let's get this MCC GOLD COIN YEAH??? Tori if you're watching this, I'm winning this for you." He exclaimed with a huge smile on his face as he looked at the camera with pure determination. He's definetely going to win this match. For Tori.
ANGEL SPEAKS !
hello everyone! i know it has been a year since i've last updated this book. actually, this chapter has been on the drafts for a very long time, i didn't really had the guts to publish it yet after the techno special chapter that i've posted before. but now, i'm finally back to writing this book:) a lot has happened in the fandom for the past year so i'll try my best to make this book still enjoyable for you guys.
the only reason why i keep coming back is because i really do miss writing tori and tommy's story, and it would be too bad to not share to all of you the plans that i've wanted to write for this book. i'm srsly doing this all for you guys. once again, thank you all for the love and support<333