Collide / David Dobrik

26 / When The Party's Over (pt. 1)

Two weeks had gone by since the VMAs, and despite Caroline's 2 attempts to speak to David, he had completely ignored her. It wasn't until David pulled his usual ritual of showing up unannounced one evening that she saw him again.

"Hey I..." He started his sentence and didn't finish it. Caroline simply stared at him as he stood outside of her apartment. "Can I come in?" He asked.

Caroline allowed David to enter.

"I'm sorry I didn't text you back"

"Ok"

"I didn't... I... Caroline, I don't think we should talk anymore"

Caroline narrowed her eyes at David.

"Care to elaborate?"

"It's too messy. I'm sorry, I know I initiated the hookup but we shouldn't keep doing that and I just-"

"You... David Dobrik.... are saying that it's too messy to be hooking up with me? And that somehow correlates to speaking to me?"

"It's not like that, it's just that with Liza-"

"Oh, I see, ok, you're still bending over backwards for Liza"

"Caroline-"

"No, no, I get it"

"You have no idea-"

"Oh I have no idea? That you fucking came to supposedly apologize to me, what, when Liza didn't want to fuck you anymore? And now that you pissed her off you're gonna throw me aside again so you can get her back? Get out"

But this time, David wasn't leaving.

"Can I explain myself?"

"What's there to explain, David?"

"I didn't mean we can't fucking speak to each other, I meant that we can't talk romantically. I get I initiated that, but I'm already in such a deep fucking hole that I don't think us being together is at all a good idea. Imagine explaining that to Liza, it's going to ruin BOTH of our relationships with her"

Caroline nodded.

"I listened, you can leave now"

"Why-"

"BECAUSE, David, you fucking came up to me in the bar seconds after making out with a random girl acting like you wanted me so badly, so I fucking go home with you, fair enough, I guess that was my mistake, and have sex with you even though I have literally not had sex with ANYBODY since I became a skeleton in your closet. THEN you tell me you don't regret it, and we go out and have some fucking indie movie whirlwind romance night and hook up AGAIN. THEN you decide you're over it because it's "too messy" after YOU initiated it. How do you think that fucking feels, David? All of that? To have someone you never got closure with and start feeling something for again toss you to the side again? After you said all these fucking... beautiful things about wishing you had never left? Things that I literally never thought I would hear? On top of the 3 years of fucking watching you through a goddamn window thinking you literally forgot I existed?"

"I... I can't do this" David said.

Caroline was immediately transported back to the day that David initially left, and felt her vision start to blur with tears as she sat on the couch and put her head in her hands, ready for her world to shatter again.

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I've learned to lose you can't afford to... tore my shirt to stop you bleeding... but nothing ever stops you leaving

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The drama never stops!