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LONG DISTANCE
❝ CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS LATER? ❞

' imessage '

' miss fkin daya ❣ '

miss fkin daya ❣
we're landed !! tom's sleeping
and jacob REALLY wants to take
photos of him !!

mrs fkin scar 🌩
encourage it !! i'm looking for a
new lockscreen on my phone

miss fkin daya ❣
i accidentally woke him up oops

mrs fkin scar 🌩
aCcIdEntAlLy you just didn't want
him to get grumpy on you

miss fkin daya ❣
yes ma'am he sulks like my nieces
n they're twenty years younger than
him thank u

miss fkin daya ❣
how are you tho? i kept trying to tell
your hubby that it wasn't a good idea
to film right up until the due date but
he would not listen to me or ollie at
dinner

miss fkin scar 🌩
he told me in bed, and i said to him
it would help if he was home a few
days earlier at the least so if i did go
into labour a few days early there'd
be no panic

miss fkin scar 🌩
of course he went on a tangent about
his career and how he can't force the
crew to fit their schedules around him

miss fkin scar 🌩
it pissed me off but i was exhausted
and too tired for an argument so i just
went to bed n woke up when he said
bye

miss fkin daya ❣
i just punched him very hard and
shouted at him very loud

miss fkin daya ❣
TYPICAL white boy behaviour and
i let him know that he's being a
shitty husband and dad

miss fkin scar 🌩
you did NOT

miss fkin scar 🌩
now he's calling me jesus christ

miss fkin daya ❣
dw i'm .5 meters away from
him if he starts being a dick
i'll punch him again

miss fkin scar 🌩
LMAOOOOO k deal cya

"ARE YOU PISSED OFF AT ME?" WAS THE FIRST THING THAT WAS PRESSED ON SCARLETT THE VERY SECOND SHE ANSWERED HER PHONE, AND SHE WAS ALMOST TAKEN BACK FROM IT. She knew Tom was stressed the last few weeks from preparing his lines and his working visa as well as buying baby things and painting the nursery he said he would paint the day they moved in, and it was showing in his increasingly irritable manner.

It doesn't give him an excuse to talk to Scarlett like that, though.

She scoffs, not believing her ears. "If you're going to talk to me like that, I don't want to talk to you at all."

"Ow! Fuck, no, I didn't mean that. I just, I wanna know if you're okay, darling." Tom changes his tune, and Scarlett knows if Zendaya wasn't probably glaring at Tom ready to give him bruises, it would have escalated into an argument.

As far as Scarlett was concerned, being six months pregnant didn't mean she was bone stupid. "No, you did. Listen, I meant what I said last night in bed. Coming home a few days earlier would just help me out loads, and you know the doctor is always telling me to keep my stress down." She frowns, acting a little. Yes, she didn't like it when Tom took her being pregnant for bein thick, but pulling the pregnant card on him was always fun.

Scarlett hears Tom let go a long and drawn out sigh, and the line was completely silent for a minute before she realised Tom put her on mute. It beyond infuriated her how rude Tom decided to get recently, but she was positive Zendaya was telling him off, so she wasn't all too mad.

He returns to the phone, and Scarlett hears him utter a whispered; "No, you can't tell me what to say," before clearing his throat, his attention to Scarlett.

"Well? I have got things to do, you know." Scarlett asks, her patience officially running thinner than ever.

Tom takes a short and sharp breath, something he does when he's nervous, which only seemed to make Scarlett nervous herself. "Listen, this is a conversation...just for us two. Can we talk about this later?"

Scarlett could not believe her ears. Is he seriously putting this conversation on hold?

"I tried talking to you last night, but you didn't listen." Scarlett replies through gritted teeth, her anger translating internally into stress that straight away turned into heartburn, something she had a lot during her pregnancy.

Tom, who was still very aware of Zendaya sitting opposite him in the car going to their hotel for shooting, turned his talk into more of a hushed tone. "Well, I told you why I couldn't, and you seemed to just agree and go to sleep."

Scarlett rolls her eyes, "Because I was tired of your shit, Tom. You managed to turn an adult discussion between a husband and wife about the birth of their children, supposedly the most important of their life, about you and your career. If you remember, I'm not just your best friend, anymore. I'm your wife, and your family is inside me."

There was silence once more, the kind of silence were tension did the talking, though there were no voices active on the call. It has turned into just a live phone line.

Eyes now brimmed with tears, Scarlett sucks her teeth, which was immature for her, but she was so allowed compared to the way Tom was moving. "Forget it, call me when you actually want to have a family." And hung up abruptly.

Scarlett exhaled shakily when she threw her phone onto the bed she shared with Tom from her position standing against the door of her ensuite bathroom. The release of breath also released her tears, and Scarlett screwed her eyes shut, letting herself cry, cradling her ever growing stomach.

Once again, she was alone. Only this time, a lot more was on the line from when her and Tom broke up last Christmas. There were children involved.

Long distance was going to prove the hardest challenge in Scarlett's pregnancy.

INDIA TALKS !

i absolutely love the angst, i love building up towards this BANGER of a finale (which is in 4 chapters time bc its 5 parts long wtf seriously)

don't forget to keep investing a few minutes every day towards to blm movement, even more so now the "trend" is wearing off on social media. this is still a long fight to live.

soz to tom for making him a dickhead but oh the drama love xx