The Ocean Between Us (Leo/Kate fanfic)

Chapter 2

"Well hello to you too," Kate said, semi-chuckling but also semi-annoyed. "Um, how are you?"

"I don't know, why don't you tell everyone about how we never go on vacation together and we were together less than a day," Leo said in a quiet but seething voice, barely hiding his disgust.

"Darling what the bloody hell are you talking about?" Kate asked, still perplexed.

"I saw the goddamn interview with E! News and how you were so dismissive of those pictures of us together in St-Tropez," Leo said, his voice getting ever the slightest bit louder.

"Leo, please, what the hell else was I supposed to say?" Kate replied sternly. "They gave me no heads up that they were going to ask the question...."

"That's a lie!" Leo cut her off. "You knew it and you had time to cook up some bullshit story or excuse to make it sound or look like we had nothing going on!"

"OK, why are you freaking out?" she asked. "Are you jealous of me and Idris doing promotional stuff for the movie and how well we get on?"

"I'm just another one of your tools, is that it Kate? Am I just another one of your boy toys? Huh?!" Leo was now yelling.

"Oh don't even go there!" Kate was now yelling to match Leo.

"Oh I am..." he cut her off before she could say anything. "All you've done the last 20 years is lead me around like a dog on a leash, dragged me on the ground like a security blanket, while running off to marry some other guy! I'm starting to really wonder how you view our relationship!"

"Leo I don't need this right now....." Kate's voice shook with anger. "I can't believe the rubbish you are spewing right now....I don't NEED this right now, I don't! I mean trying to promote two movies, mum's passing earlier this year, Ned and me having problems...."

"You're having problems because you're afraid to tell the world you love me!!" Leo practically screamed, while subconsciously worrying his neighbors would hear the conversation. " That I'M Bear's father or that you only married Jim and Sam and now Ned because you were running away from me!!!"

Leo caught his breath as he waited and listened, then heard Kate starting to sob.

"What now you're going to fucking cry because I called you out?!!" Leo shouted, pushing her into a corner. "You're goddamn right I called you out and I'm glad!"
"Leo please don't...." Kate begged through her tears. "We had a very very special time in St-Tropez and I'll never forget it....."

"Oh but it's not a vacation, it was all business, right? Us making love three times in one day is just business to you I suppose?"

"It was just as important to me for my fundraiser as yours...." was all Kate could muster through her sniffling and choking sobs.

"Jesus Christ......really? Really? That's all you can say?" Leo said. All he could hear was Kate continuing to sniffle and he could almost picture her grabbing a box of Kleenex to wipe the tears streaming down her face.

"Look unless it's an emergency with Bear, just don't call me for a while.....just.....leave me alone," Leo said, quietly. As he pulled the phone receiver away from his ear he could barely hear Kate say "Leo please......" through the speaker but he hit the red hang up phone icon and put the phone down.

"GODDAMNIT!!!!!" he yelled and hurled his phone across the room. It crashed against the wall and luckily, the $50 titanium Otter Box case Leo had paid for absorbed the shock and only the screen protector flew off.

Leo caught his breath and realized he was sweating. He brushed his hand over his face to wipe the sweat off and realized it was mingled with a tear streaming down his cheek. He grabbed the phone, took a deep breath and turned it on vibrate. Immediately it began to ring. It was Kate. He willed himself not to pick up. He could not deal with this and her right now. He let it ring out. Then it rang again and again. He paced the living room floor, debating and beating himself up inside. It rang a fourth time and again he refused to pick up. He could not talk to her right now, he told himself. They're both too emotional. Just go for a walk, DiCaprio, go for a walk he said.

Leo left the phone sitting on the kitchen counter as it buzzed a couple of more times to indicate that Kate was still trying to call him. He grabbed his keys and wallet, checking to make sure he had a fresh condom tucked inside, and rushed out of the apartment, leaving the phone to buzz all night for all he cared. He prowled a couple of night clubs, got slightly buzzed, knowing he could not be fully drunk to sexually perform, and left a bar with a young brunette college student and her blonde friend. They went back to one of the girl's apartments and had a threesome. Even as both women moaned and gasped with ecstasy as Leo pleasured one orally and the other bounced up and down on his massive manhood, the only thing he kept hearing was Kate's sobs.

Leo returned to his apartment in a daze. It was the forlorn hour of 3 a.m. and he was spent emotionally and physically. He walked straight past the counter but managed to look at his phone and saw Kate had tried calling a total of six times. She sent a lone text message with three crying emoji faces that read "PLS CALL ME....I LUV U" followed by a broken heart icon. Leo rolled his eyes and exhaustively willed himself to the bedroom and collapsed asleep without even changing his clothes.