Lizzie looked up at the two of them as they entered.
"Did you?"
"Yes" Chris said, standing in the door. Her eyes unreadable. "It didn't..."
Lizzie held her hand up turning to David. "It doesn't matter." She said her voice thick.
David moved over to her, sitting in front of the couch. "Why?"
"If you can promise me" Lizzie said "looking into my eyes, that you never ever want to sleep with her again." She gulped.
David rose up looking her in the eyes, his hand gently stroking her chin. "I never want to have sex with Chris again." He said looking at her.
"Why did you?"
"It had to happen."
"What?" Lizzie asked looking at him.
"You know in a movie, where two people have some spark?"
Lizzie gulped "But then they end up getting together!"
"At the end of the movie, in some passionate moment." david nodded. "But then the movie ends. And you know what. You realize that it hasn't been as long as it feels. That while we've been so wrapped up in the movie only two three weeks have passed in the time it spans, and you realize. That couldn't mean as much as you thought it did." He whispered. "And you realize that they needed that moment, that connection."
Lizzie gulped. "Me and Chris needed that so bad." He said.
"Why?"
"When you saw her, you though we were sleeping together."
"Yeah" Lizzie nodded.
"Everyone did." He said, his world had narrowed down to Lizzie, he didn't notice Ethan sitting across from them, or Chris, staring out the window.
"If I had taken a lie detector, would you have believed the results?"
"No"
"Now?"
Lizzie looked up at Chris, who was reclining against the door frame. Her eyes staring out at the starry sky. She looked at David, she remembered what they had looked like coming in. The lack of touching. The only thing clueing her in was that. They seemed different.
"I wouldn't even think it was a possibility."
David sat up. Looking over at her he kneeled so he was slightly over her. "Me and Chris, we know we're over. I'm hoping I'll come, stay in your guest room, just enjoy being with you. And she'll go back to LA, she probably won't come back here. I might never see her again. You, you Lizzie, I want to spend so much more time with. I want to know everything about you. You Lizzie, you and I are just beginning."
Lizzie gulped, lurching forward and wrapping her arms around him.
Ethan suddenly stood up, taking Chris by the arm, leading her upstairs, out to the balcony again.
"You aren't coming back?" He asked
"I doubt it" Chris whispered looking back at him. "I mean, I only came this time because David insisted." She said looking up at him. "I don't have a way back and forth."
Ethan stroked the faint scar on her face. "I'll miss you." He said.
Chris gulped back tears. She hadn't felt the need to cry when she was saying goodbye to David. But Ethan, she gulped. She had seen the possibility, the spark like the movie David was talking about. But she knew, this weekend, with this guy, this attractive, funny, sweet guy. Was only that, this weekend.
Ethan hugged her to him lightly, pulling her close.
"You slept with Gordon?" He asked
"Right here" She whispered.
"You wanted to?"
"It was inevitable" She echoed. "Neither of us enjoyed it"
"Why'd you do it then?"
She looked up at him. "Remember this morning. When we slept together?"
"Yeah"
"Remember that it was fun, and we laughed, that when I fell off the couch it didn't matter?"
"Yeah."
"Because everything me and David have done together has lacked that. And we needed to get something across. That pain, the fact that we were the only two people in the world who got each other. And we had to let that go. Because its not going to stick. Because I'm going to miss him. Because he won't miss me after a few weeks. We needed something so final that it wouldn't hurt so much."
Ethan nodded stroking her hair. "Yeah."
"In short, we needed to fuck it up so we wouldn't cry" She gulped resting her forehead on his chest, crying into his shirt.
Disclaimer: Me no own. I own chris though
Author's notes: Here we go, that passable for everyone as to an explanation? And yes this is very speedy. This is what reviews get you. And if you couldn't tell. this story is ending soon.
