You and Tom had known each other all your lives, you were best friends as children and now you are much more... Even if he couldn't say it out loud, he did ask and it was official. He swore up and down he wouldn't ever be into that "lovey dovey nonsense" as he liked to say, but here he was- holding you gently against his chest after you had been crying, reading a book to you in his calming and hushed tone.