Assistance**David Dobrik

Chapter 6

The rest of the night I stay away from David, and I definitely stay away from alcohol. When I realize that I wouldn't have a safe ride home, I call an Uber and go back to my apartment. I wake up at 3 AM to my phone ringing.
"Hello?"
"Corinne where are you?" David practically yells
"I'm at home"
"You didn't tell anyone where you were going? I have been worried- I mean I just couldn't find you" He says the last part more calmly.
"I'm sorry, I was just drunk and I'm tired"
"Yeah I get it, I'm going to Chicago in the morning, so can you just keep up with my emails and I'll see you Thursday?" He asks
"Yeah, goodnight David" I say and hang up the phone and immediately fall back asleep. I sleep until 12:00 the next day and wake up to the smoke alarms going off. I run out of my room in just my shorts and no pants and Cierra is in the kitchen with a guy and she has burned bacon. "Woah, look who decided to reappear," Cierra says and the guy she is with has wide eyes. "Oh this is my boyfriend, Matt," she says and I give him a fake smile and run back upstairs angrily. Throughout the rest of the week I try to get to know my roommates a little better but honestly, I just think we are too different. I find myself checking my phone for texts from David but any time he does, they are only for me to make sure I am answering his stupid emails. Not to mention I'm having trouble finding my way around the new campus since I didn't get a formal orientation. Thursday finally rolls around and I have to pick David and Heath up from the airport at 3:00 PM. My car is kind of messy, and it's old so this is like 10 steps down from David's Tesla, which I hate to admit that I absolutely love. I throw on a Tennessee hoodie and some workout leggings and rush to the airport so I can get there early. As I pull up to David's terminal, I beep the horn and wave excitedly and David seems caught off guard but he gives me a fake smile. I roll my eyes as they both get in the backseat. "What are you two scared of me or something?" I ask and Heath laughs. "I thought David was going to sit up there," Heath replies with his charming smile. I look back at David and he is staring out the window. My heart sinks, but I don't exactly know what's wrong with him either. The whole ride back, Heath tells me about their trip to Chicago and all about how they bought 3 Mercedes with SeatGeek and gave them to David's friends. Heath is nice and all, but I would much rather David be telling me all this. I drop Heath off at his house and David is still being an asshole. "Okay are you gonna tell me what's wrong with you?" I ask and he shrugs like a child. "You're being so immature right now David, honestly I haven't even done anything and if you are mad at me for leaving that night-," I ramble on and he stops me. "Corinne shut the hell up, I don't wanna talk about it," he blurts out and I'm shocked. We pull up to his house and he gets his bags and walks inside without a word. Thinking back to that night that we were both drunk, I don't know what happened that made him act like this. I walk inside and straight to his bedroom and he is changing. "What the fuck?!" He yells and covers up his boxers. "Tell me what I did," I demand and I'm doing my best not to laugh. "Can I at least put some pants on?" He asks angrily. "No," I reply, sitting on his bed. He puts them on anyways and sits down beside me. "I just need to sort through my feelings," he says without making eye contact with me. "So you ignore me? I've missed you," I admit and I feel my cheeks turn bright red. "I can't get you out of my head, and that's so stupid because I met you a week ago, stop blushing, it's too damn adorable," he laughs and I smile. "Well, let me know when you sort through your feelings, David, in the mean time, I'll be bringing someone in to clean this house," I say and walk out of his room and close the door behind me. "So do you wanna see footage from Chicago or not?" David yells from his room. I hurry back into his room and sit beside him, "of course I do." He smiles and that's all I really needed to see. David's smile is contagious, and I can't get enough of it.