Chapter 1
Bright, cheerful and joyful are what come to mind when thinking of a yellow rose. Yellow roses create warm feelings and provide happiness. Giving yellow roses are a way of telling someone how much you value the friendship you share.
(Y/N) woke up to the smell of freshly made pancakes. It wasn't only Sunday morning, but also the day (Y/N) was moving into the "Bitchelor"-House, as she liked to call it. Today was the day the other girls arrived and the first day of Tom meeting them. (Y/N) was familiar with all of them because she went through all the auditions that were sent in and helped Nikki decide on a few of them. They had an agreement with Tom that he was able to pick 5 of them himself and (Y/N) was far from surprised when she saw who he had picked. That was the moment she decided to call it The Bitchelor and not The Bachelor anymore.
Having adopted the habit of stealing Harrison's or Tom's hoodies, she put one on and made her way over to the kitchen where she was greeted by a weird sight: Harrison and Tom cooking breakfast. The girl couldn't remember the last time they were making breakfast. Since she was now finished with her exams and they were both not quite the early birds it was usually her task to make breakfast for the two idiots who would probably eat potato chips for breakfast. Hearing Rihanna's Umbrella in the background, (Y/N) leaned against the wall, watching the two topless dorks try to make pancakes. They hadn't seen her yet because they were facing the other way.
"Harrison! Try it! It's so good!" Tom laughed and shoved a handful of pancake with icing in the blonde boys mouth.
"That's fucking disgusting and you know it." Harrison spit out what was shoved in his mouth. "You div don't know what sugar is do you? That is definitely salt in there, mate."
"Salt, sugar, same thing." Tom shrug his shoulders which made Harrison shake his head.
"It's obviously not, you dumbass, there's no way (Y/N) will survive this breakfast without us poisoning her. Why can't we wake her up and ask her for help?" Harrison laughed.
"Noooo, let her sleep! It's the last night in her own bed. I want to make her some breakfast, I feel bad enough for having my mum drag her into this whole thing." Tom answered before placing the pancake mix where it belonged - in the trash. It always amazed the girl how different Tom was at home. They've been clubbing plenty of times and it always felt like he was a completely different person outside of their shared home. She felt like the reason was that Harrison and herself had known him when he was still growing up, they knew everything about him - and because they would cut off his balls if he acted like an ass around them. That was also the reason they had agreed that Tom was not allowed to bring home girls every night and Tom was cool with keeping the girls out of their sight, especially (Y/N)'s sight.
"You're both idiots." (Y/N) started laughing which made the two boys finally turn around. "Move out of the way and let the pro in the kitchen." She shook her head laughing before pushing the boys towards the living room.
"But I wanted to make breakfast!" Tom pouted.
"Yeah and poison me, thank fuck I woke up. Go take a shower or play ball with Tessa... or Harrison, same thing."
"I HEARD THAT!" Harrison shouted from the bathroom.
"GOOD!" (Y/N) shouted back and made her way back into the kitchen where she managed to save, well, absolutely nothing they tried to make.
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(Y/N) went to the Hollands house an hour early since Paddy had called her and asked her if she could help him with his maths homework. Seeing the boy as her little brother she obviously agreed and was currently helping him do his homework while being all dressed up. The girl loved Paddy and she also loved roasting Tom with him, the kid was an absolute savage. (Y/N) was in the middle of explaining something to the youngest Holland when her phone vibrated.
Tom Holland: Blue or Black Suit?
(Y/N): Black :)
Tom Holland: Thanks. Are you wearing a dress? ;)
(Y/N): No, I'm wearing sweats and one of your shirts. Stop annoying me. I'm trying to help your brother.
Tom Holland: Wow, so this will be the last message I get from you for the next 3 weeks?
They had agreed that it was better to not have (Y/N)s phone lying around somewhere in the house. There was a high chance of Tom and her texting and they didn't want to blow up her cover because of something stupid like that.
(Y/N): No it's going to be: Stop annoying me. Fuck off. xx
Tom Holland: Well, at least I got some kisses. See ya later, Cupcake xx
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(Y/N) was currently standing next to 11 other girls in the foyer of Nikki and Dom's house. The girls were gushing about how handsome Tom is and about how they can't wait for him to live up to his reputation and she tried her best to not roll her eyes at at least half of them. The girl had to constantly remind herself that she had no idea who these people were and what all the rooms in this house were. It was going to be hard for her to pretend to be really interested in Tom to not blow her cover. Acting like she didn't know her best friend at all would be a real challenge but she was never one to back down from a challenge. The contestants were only a few minutes away from meeting Tom who would be greeting everyone in the garden of the house.
"Alright, girls." The voice that made all of the girls shut up was too familiar to (Y/N). Nikki came down the stairs to greet her contestants first. Her eyes fell on (Y/N) who was wearing the beautiful blue dress she had bought her because she knew there was no way (Y/N) would not have showed up wearing black skinny jeans and a casual top. Tom's mother would be lying if she said there wasn't a part of her that hoped the beautiful (Y/H/C) haired girl wasn't only there because of her pleadings.
"So, I'm sure all of you know what's going to happen in a few minutes, but first of all I wanted to introduce myself. I'm Nikki Holland, Tom's mum and I will be your go-to person if you've got any wishes or something to talk about during your stay here. You'll probably be meeting my other sons Harry, Sam and Paddy in the next few days and my husband and Tom's father Dominic will be around as well. I'm pretty sure Tom's best friend Harrison will be dropping by later to meet you all as well. That's all I have to say for now, so you probably just want to meet my son then. He's waiting for you by the entrance of our garden, and I'll be introducing you one after another. First one, is going to be (Y/N). So (Y/N) if you want to step forward and come with me please." Nikki's acting was on point and (Y/N) had to try hard to not start laughing.
"Nice to meet you, Misses Holland" the girl stepped forward and was greeted by Nikki with a sweet hug.
"Call me Nikki, sweetheart. Come on, time for you to meet my son." She smiled and walked towards the entrance of the backyard where Tom was already standing and waiting impatiently.
"Misses Holland, huh?" Nikki laughed once the two of them were out of earshot.
"Your acting was on point." (Y/N) laughed before stopping when she saw Tom standing there in his suit looking like he just stepped out of a photoshoot.
"You clean up well, Thomas." The girl joked and greeted her best friend with a hug.
"You don't look too bad either, Cupcake. Almost didn't recognize you without my clothes and the messy bun." The boy laughed and earned a slap on the shoulder from his mother. "What did I do now?" He asked in a high-pitched voice.
"She looks absolutely stunning and you better be nice to her. I'll be bringing the next one in a minute, so you better start acting." Nikki smiled before walking off.
"She's right, you look gorgeous." Tom turned back to the girl standing in front of him and showed her his signature smile.
"Yeah yeah, stop being such an ass-kisser, I'll be down there, exploring this beautiful garden I've never seen in my whole life." (Y/N) grinned. She said her goodbye's to Tom when Nikki turned up with the first girl. Well, second girl.
Grabbing herself a glass of champagne she sat down on one of their childhood memories - a garden swing Tom's grandfather had built the both of them, because they hated the swings where they couldn't sit down and swing together.
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From her place on the swing (Y/N) had a perfect view of Tom greeting the other girls. He was fully back in his Fuckboy attitude and the girl knew he was doing this stupid lip biting and puppy eyes thing which made even her give in to the most ridiculous things. Her best friend had his ways with women and literally everyone around him. She honestly had no idea how and why Harrison and her were keeping up with him. Speaking of Harrison, he turned up when everyone was introduced and started talking to each other. It had always been hard for (Y/N) to open up to new people, especially now that she had to put on an act, so she stayed behind a bit and tried to observe from the sidelines. Tom was talking to Jessica and Zoe, two beautiful brown haired girls, definitely Tom's type. Not that this guy even had a type, his type was beautiful and female. And the last one was probably also up for discussion.
"You know you have to start talking to them to get to know them." Harrison appeared next to (Y/N) who was still sitting on the swing. He sat down next to the girl and she looked around them to check if they were out of earshot which they definitely were.
"I honestly can't be bothered. I hate people. You know that. They all seem.. fake." She groaned which made Harrison laugh.
"You know you should at least show a bit of interest in him or you'll blow your cover faster than one of them is going to blow -"
"- NO! Stop, oh my god, I can't believe you just said that. Seriously Harrison, what is wrong with you?" (Y/N) laughed and covering her face with her hands. Harrison grinned, silently highfiving himself for that joke.
"Looks like someone's stealing my girl." Tom appeared next to them with three girls following him.
"Just giving them the Harrison approval. This one's approved." He grinned before standing up to make his way over to a group of four girls.
"(Y/N) was it?" Tom smiled before sitting down next to his best friend who just nodded.
"I don't know if you know each other already but these are, Julia" honestly beautiful with her long black hair and dark brown eyes "Vanessa" quite the opposite to Julia, blue eyes and dark blonde hair "and Kim" a bit lighter hair than Vanessa, but the same intense blue eyes.
"We've already met before meeting you." Julia smiled at the girl next to Tom who smiled back, trying her best to not blow her cover already.
"And I believe we're going to be roommates." Kim smiled. Oh just great, (Y/N) thought.
"That seems like a room I'd also want to sleep in - or not sleep at all" Tom grinned and (Y/N) seriously struggled to not make a gagging noise. Tom could sense her wanting to reply something sarcastic. "Well then, time for the roommates to get to know each other, I'll be over there making sure Harrison doesn't steal all my girls. I'll see you later, beautiful." He smiled at (Y/N) before leaving. Tom calling her beautiful was something new and she wasn't sure if this feeling in her stomach was the feeling of her wanting to throw up.
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