"No" David stated. Ian knew this would happen, of course David wouldn't want to come, David seemed to want nothing to do with any of them, and after a long text message conversation Ian decided he will have to convince him face to face, and so he waited for the next Game Bang to be filmed, so he can confront David and get everyone else to help him do so.
Well, apparently nobody else wanted to help him in the task of encouraging David so he had to do it himself.
"Look, Ian" David said, "I'm really not in the mood to hang out"
"C'mon! You know you need to chill a bit" Ian said.
"No thanks, I'd rather spend my night at home" David protested.
Ian takes a breath and Sais "Look, David, I just want what's best for you and I think one night of forgetting your problems will help. I don't know what's going on in your mind but you got to let go, just for one night, for your own good, for all of Smosh Games." Ian did his best at convincing David.
No answer.
He started walking away in loss of hope when he heard David say finally a quiet "OK".
Ian was surprised, he didn't believe he managed to make David loosen up after months of being to himself.
"See you at nine then" Ian said with a smile.
David nodded, possibly regretting his decision.
David kept his promise and showed up, Ian was glad to see so and continued talking to sohinki about video games, he found it hard to concentrate and saw how David was talking to Anthony and Kalel, he saw how he was more relaxed and open. At some point Sohinki left to talk to Joven as he just arrived. Ian still focused on David noticed how his mouth was moving, and how his lips curled into a slight smile, one he hasn't seen in a while, and he found himself staring at David for a while till he was interrupted by Mari suggesting they watch a movie.
They all watched the avengers (Joven's 7th time!), ate popcorn, drank sodas and had an overall good time, it seemed everything was back to normal-ish.
Around midnight the movie ended and they started chatting until Anthony suggested they play the game they got in the mail.
They all agreed which worried Ian, he didn't trust the game and it creped him, he had never heard of this game before and the company was unknown to them all, it seemed the game was haunted, no, wait, what was he thinking, a haunted game? He was just freaking out, he calmed himself down and started playing.
The graphics of the game were spectacular! He couldn't believe his eyes. But other than that it pretty much sucked, all you do is shoot zombies which is the same as so many other games. But they played anyway for a few hours taking turns and laughing when David shot a zombie in the balls.
But Ian was still skeptical, the game just had an eerie feeling to it, but he kept that to himself and blamed it on the perfect graphics.
All Ian remembers was hearing a loud bang and then nothing.