His Assistant | David Dobrik x Natalie

Chapter 8

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I dial Shawn's number, and as it rings I try to tell myself I'm overreacting, as per usual. However, I just hate getting in fights, and I have a feeling this may bring up a fight.

For some reason, I feel like we've been getting in a lot more fights lately, and it's been over the stupidest things. We got in a fight last week because I texted him goodnight and then actually went to bed and didn't respond to his texts.

Is that as stupid to you as it is to me?

"Hello?" He answers.
"Hey,"
"So when do you come back?" He jumps straight to the chase.

"Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about," I start.

"You know how I've been struggling to find a job?" I ask.

"Yes," He says slowly as if he could see the direction this is going.

"Well David asked for me to be his assistant," I brace as though his answer is going to hit hard, but there's silence.

"Shawn?" I ask, checking to see if the call was still connected. That'd be an ironic time for the call to get disconnected.

"Where are you living?" He asks, which is the part I was actually most worried about. He's been convinced for years that David and I were going to end up together, even though I've assured him each time that I don't have any feelings for David and he doesn't have any for me.

"Well, he offered for me to take his guest room at least until I can afford my own place," I sort of lie on the last part, just to help calm the wrath that I know is about to happen.

"Absolutely not," He says sternly, just as I expected.

"Shawn," I warn, not wanting it to go in this direction.

"No Natalie. You are absolutely not staying with that douchebag," He insults, which causes my blood to start boiling.
"You have literally no right to call him that. You have avoided for years getting to know him, so I don't want to hear your opinion that you have no right to have," I throw back.

"If you move in with him, I may just have to break up with you," He says, which shocked me more than ever.

"Don't be ridiculous,"
"You're staying in a house, with a guy who thinks he can get anyone he wants. You think I'm being ridiculous?" He asks, and for a second I see his point. I mean, David is a huge youtube and just about anyone would do anything for him that knows who he is. However, David also has a girlfriend, I'm not interested in him, and I've been in a relationship for a long time.

"Shawn, he has a girlfriend, of 2 years. I have literally 0 feelings for him, he's like a brother to me. So yes you are being ridiculous," I throw back at him, with tears starting to spring in my eyes. I hate fighting and yelling and I always start crying when it happens. I like to blame my birth control for making me so emotional but let's be real, I was like this before I went on it.

"Call me when you move out," He says, and as I go to answer him, I hear the phone click off, indicating he hung up.
I huff out of frustration, and at this point, tears are steadily coming down my face.

You would think he would be happy for me. I'm now surrounded by my best friends from high school, with a job, living in the dream city. Really it couldn't be better.

However, I now have no idea where I stand with Shawn. Are we together? That's what hurts most. The fact that he was so quick to leave a very happy relationship of 3 years just because one person found a job somewhere else.

I hear a small knock on my door before David's head peaks around the door.
"Are you okay?" He asks stepping in. His hesitant behavior makes it obvious he's slightly scared of dealing with people crying, just like he always has been.

"I'm sorry I didn't know you were home," I attempt to wipe my tears away, but they're still coming, so it was no use.
"Nat come here," He sits down on my bed, pulling me into a hug. I rest my head on his chest, and I instantly feel better. There's nothing like a David hug, literally. I always loved when he would comfort me over stupid high school drama just because of his hugs.

"What happened?" He finally asks when I calm down a little. I pull away from his hug and lay down on my bed, wrapping a blanket around myself, and he does the same, facing me.
"I called Shawn to tell him you offered me a job and I think he just broke up with me over it," I say unsurely, and he immediately looks sympathetic.
"Tallie I'm sorry. This is my fault," He says, which immediately puts a small smile on my face.
That was the nickname he gave me when we were in early middle school because he thought I didn't look like a Natalie. So instead, he called me Tallie for about 3 years straight, and then it just became a nickname he used every once in a while.

"It's not your fault are you serious? He's just being stupid," Somehow it's turned to me comforting him instead of him comforting me.
"Well if he broke up over you finding a job in a different city than he wasn't worth it. If he really loved you, he'd be happy for you," He says and I smile.

"Thanks, David," I said rolling onto my back.
"So I see you went shopping," He points to my bags, and before I know it, I'm being forced to give him a fashion show of all my new clothes.

He's blaring Ariana Grande, and I can't stop laughing and smiling the entire time.

"Yes work it girl!!" He yells, faking being a paparazzi and taking pictures of me, and its moments like these that I wonder if David's secretly gay. But it's also moments like these, that David helps me forget all the things that are making me upset, and for that, I'm forever grateful. 

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