Avenir // tyler joseph

twenty-five // today is gone

I know you guys probably don't like the point of views of David and London since they aren't main characters, but their relationship had to have closure and this is it.

--David's P.O.V--

"Are you seriously still giving me the silent treatment?" I asked as London and I made our way down to the cafeteria. "You haven't spoken a word since the park and I know it's not because of Sêverine. You hardly know the girl."

London crossed her arms over her chest, her hair falling into her face. Her short hair was now almost shoulder length and I could remember when we first met and she had long blonde hair. That seemed like such a long time ago and in reality, it had been three years.

I was surprised we had managed to stay together that long without really being together. I had always been warned by both Pierre and Jeff, who had been in long distance relationships before, that they definitely weren't easy, but then you had to add London and I's age difference into the mix.

I still didn't want anybody else to know other the people that already did. London was afraid of their judgement and it was obvious. She didn't want anybody to look down on her because that's why she came here to Canada; to start a new life away from her old one, where she was ridiculed all the time.

"I'm fine, David," she said, quietly, refusing to turn and meet my eyes.

I reached out to grab onto her shoulder, making her stop in her tracks. I turned her around to face me, my hands never leaving her shoulders. "You aren't fine, London. Something is bothering you and for some reason, you won't tell me why. You can tell me anything, you know that."

My girlfriend shook her head. "I can't tell you what is bothering me because I know what you'll say and it won't help my worrying subside."

I raised my eyebrows. "Is this about your parents again? And the age gap? I told you, London, that you just have to stay here until you're eighteen and everything will be fine. And how many times have I told you that I don't care about the age gap?"

"It doesn't matter if you are seventeen and I'm twenty-four. We are both consenting to be in this relationship and we haven't done anything worse than kiss another. You need just get it through your head that the age gap isn't a terrible thing."

London pulled her body out of my reach and I watched as her hands started shaking. "Isn't a terrible thing, David? Do I need to remind you that we started dating when I was fourteen and you were twenty-one? How bad does that sound to anyone but ourselves? After the prom thing on the cruise, Courtney asked me how old I was and you should have seen her face when I told her."

I opened my mouth to respond, but she quickly cut me off.

"And I know your band members think that I was a lapse in your judgement. They think that I won't last with you; you'll get sick of me some day and when in fact right now, I risked my entire life for you. And you know what? That's what makes me worried and angry. Eventually, you are going to leave me for someone so much more talented and prettier and I'll have to be forced to go back home."

I released a heavy sigh in the hospital hallway, rubbing my hand across my face. "You were never a lapse in my judgement, London. I asked you to go out with me because you weren't like anybody I had ever met before. You aren't afraid to speak your mind even if it costs you friendships, you aren't afraid to make questionable fashion choices, and you are especially aren't afraid to take risks. I was the biggest risk you could ever take on and yet you did it like it was nothing."