After Evie left, his thoughts shifted from the memory of her form when wearing something more revealing to the realization how he left Helen when she knew nobody beyond … The man that is stomping his way towards him. Behind Tommy Ryder who was marching his way to Dave, he could see Helen looking ailenated sitting alone at the bar, not knowing how to talk to anybody because she knows nobody. When Tommy reached him, he shouted so loud almost anybody could hear. Dave has done many stupid things in his life, and he was often been shouted at, but that wasn’t the case since he was still a snarky teenager, who although was big for his age, shrunk form embarrasement when his mother told him off. Tommy gave him the same tretment and Dave knew he was right, so again, he felt small and contritely he looked over at Helen at the bar, looking as isolated and as betrayed as she must feel, all because of him. With guilt in his eyes Dave turned his gaze from Helen and to Tommy and said “You’re right, I’ll go apologize right now and see if I can make it up to her.” Withouth saying anything more, for a not so smart boy he knew more words wouldn’t help him any longer and that he must leap into action. Dave slowly walks away from Tommy and sits next to Helen at the bar. Not knowing how to start because just saying ‘I’m sorry’ won’t cut it. The bartender came over and asked Dave “What’ll you have sir?” Not thinking about getting anything he said “I don’t know. YOu wouldn’t have an apology there? It needs to be a good one though, since I really messed up.” Not ordering anything, he turned around on his chair and focused only on Helen. “Helen … I know I shouldn’t have done it in the first place, and I can’t even find a good reason for why I did it to … explain myself.” He softly takes her hand in his and says “I guess I thought when such a beautiful and charming stranger as you comes to a party nobody would wait to get introduced to you … But now I realized that when an individual is like that, most men would be too scared at first to approach and need to build up confidence. Or they would never approach becuase they would think she’s out of their league and they would just embarras themselves by doing it … Will you forgive me? I promise that I won’t leave you alone for a moment longer.” He took the hand he was holding and left a soft kiss on the knuckles. “What do you say WE join Tommy TOGETHER and forget I was ever so stupid to leave such a cool and beautiful woman behind?”