“I just want to focus on the movie. I’m just worried this will overshadow the premiere.” When Helen said this Dave felt he could relate to her because he cared about the movie too. He focused more on the movie than on the relationship, but then again so has everybody. Dave didn’t unserstand why Tommy thought it was a good idea to have this fake relationship when both of them are amateurs and neither had nearly enough experience acting on screen to do it full time off screen.
When he told her that having to act and pretend even when she’s off camera is a job, s he sighed as if he had insulted her. He should’ve known better than to suggest her precious Tommy did anything wrong. But he swallowed the feelings that reaction awoke and when he calmly asked her why she lied in order to find out if she and Tommy had the affair, she became defensive again.
“What do you mean I lied to you? You honstly think this is all my fault?” She had the nerve to get angry when being confronted at lying. That in turn made Dave angry. “I know you lied! Don’t play innocent with me!” He didn’t manage to properly say everything he wanted before she cut in and said “You’re right. I wasn’t just changing. I was coming down from dissociating, confinding in a friend … I was playing Uno.” Dave would’ve accepted this answer, and would’ve even considered apologizing for overreacting, but then … Tommy cut in. “Will, I must say… I don’t think y’all are really accomplishing much at this moment.” At this point Dave felt guilty and he was now second guessing his opinion on the matter and paying half of his attention to Tommy’s words. When Tommy directed his speech at him Dave paid full attention. “Look Dave, I know you might have been upset over messages or whatever. Yes, I read your messages. No, I didn’t respond.” This made Dave’s blood boil. Him not responding might’ve just been confirmation that he tried to keep him at arm’s lenght so he could have alone time with Helen, except Dave didn’t get that from his message. The only thing he got was that his so called friend ignored him on purpose. But then he continued. "The first one I was holding all the bags so I couldn’t really type. Well technically Siri read me your messages. I said open and read. So, she did. I guess I could have spoken to text you back, but I really don’t like doing that because Siri always seems to misunderstand my words. When I finally got to my room I forgot to respond. The second message I was unpacking my bags. Then got distracted with card games.” And Dave remembered that might be true. But that doesn’t explain why Helen never responded and that didn’t account why both of them forgot for hours that they were supposed to be there with him. At first Dave didn’t understand why they had to fly separate and why Tommy had to go with Helen, but he trusted Tommy. He always had such a way with words to make everything make sense … But he reconsidered this when Rowan said this “Dave, I hope you know how wrong you were for what you said to Helen. I can’t believe you were that rude because of a text.” Which confused Dave. He wanted to turn to Helen and aplogoize instantly, and say Helen I’m sorry for saying … But he couldn’t remember what part of what he said to Helen was rude. Dave then thought that either Tommy was talking himself out of being wrong because he made such long speeches that he could make everything seem believable or he was siding with Helen because he likes her as well. Then Dave thought back … Tommy always seemed less friendly and more angry with him since the whole fake relationship started. He then remembered the plane and when at first he believed Tommy knew best … He realized there was no reason why they couldn’t be together in that plane and whatever Tommy told him was just bull that would get him closer to Helen.
“Dave, you are not just my client but my friend dude.” When Tommy said this, Dave felt actual heartbreak, realizing this was no longer true. What’s worse he felt used, because he knew Tommy used the friend card to get him to stop questioning and letting him use him to get to Helen. “However, I will always be the one to tell you when you are wrong.” To which Dave immediately said a sarcastic "Oh really? And continuing in the same matter “Why not be my friend now and tell me exactly what I said that was so rude to Helen?”
Later on when Tommy said “I know this relationship with y’all is fake. However, I do believe y’all were friends before this.” Dave got confused. He shook his head. “Tommy, if you’re reffering to the first movie, we never made a connection there. We were always just colleagues until you got the idea that a fake relationship would be a good way to make the movie good. We were never friends.”
Tommy then suggested they apologized to each other and Dave frowned. He didn’t feel like he should apologize for anything he said because nothing he said to her tonight was that bad. The only thing he would aplogoize for is the kiss, but he will NO LONGER apologize for something just because Tommy managed to convince him it was bad. Because he now feels Tommy’s motivations in this fight are against him, no matter what he does. Tommy will always find some reason to validate his resentment towards the fact Dave is dating the woman he loves, even if it’s fake and he knows it. The exception is that Dave doesn’t know this, and doesn’t understand why suddenly Tommy is so unreasonably angry with his words when nothing he said was hurtful or mean. When Tommy suggested one of them would take his bed and one of them would stay here, Dave remebered his goal in asking Helen why she lied. He asked her this question to figure out if Tommy liked her back and if they knew and ignored him on purpose to be with each other, alone. He looked at Tommy when he made that suggestion and noticed he gazed at Helen. Dave then knew Tommy was in love with her and he assumed they were sleeping with each other when ignoring him.
“Also, Dave. I think that you should never talk to Helen so ugly again.” Dave finally figured out why Tommy thought his words were mean, he loved her and decided to take her side. Helen is too nice of a person to be treated the way you have been treating her." Dave didn’t see it that way. She might’ve been nice to Tommy, but he never saw her nice side. Dave didn’t really know Helen well enough to say she’s not nice just because she wasn’t really ever nice to him and he can’t say she is nice just because she wasn’t really ever mean to him.
Tommy then shared the good news about the photos not making it online and stopping it from reaching anybody, but Dave didn’t care about that. Maybe it was a saving grace for them, but Dave would rather if the whole fake relationship never existed in the first place and he was free to make out with Ravi all night, if he wanted to.
Then Tommy started again. “I am both of y’all’s manager. I want what’s best for y’all’s careers. However, I support y’all with whatever y’all both decide to do. Y’all both need to think this over.” Tommy kept on talking but Dave tried hard not to listen. He couldn’t stomach another speech made by Tommy knowing it would be against him, so he just shut off, so he isn’t manipulated by his convincing words that he is the one in the wrong, when he knows he’s not. He was like the Ulyssess when he tied himself up to not be able to jump after the sirens’ calls. He only tuned back in at the end.“Y’all really need to try to understand where each other is coming from before we can resolve any issues guys.” Look who’s talking Dave thought to himself. That sentence was followed by silence and Dave realized it was the end of the speech. Dave turned to Tommy and said. “No need for that Tommy … No need to think it over, at least not on my side. I know what I want and I’ll go for nothing less. And I want nothing to do with this fake relationship anymore. I don’t know if I really ever wanted this, but not it’s a crystal clear no for me.” He then turned to Helen. “Helen, I don’t know what disingenious means so I can’t answer that question for you, even if it’s the type that isn’t meant to be answered. But if you wanted to be away from me you could have always told me that you didn’t want me around, because I didn’t want to be around you either. Hell you could’ve told me before I flew to Brazil in order to have a fake date with you, if you said that before it could’ve saved me a trip.” Then he got a bit more angry at her words “An escape from this ridiculus anxiety of having to pretend to feel something for you when I barely felt anything at all.” Because in those words she basically said she felt this fake relationship was just like a job, when she got angry at him saying the very same thing. He didn’t even acknowledge her saying she felt nothing for him, because he thought that was a given.
Dave quickly glanced at Tommy, remembering he told them to apologize to each other, before turning back to Helen and saying. “When it comes to apologizing, I’ll apologize for kissing Ravi, because it hurt you and it made you worry about the fake relationship and the press … But I don’t regret doing it … And I won’t apologize for anything else because I don’t see what’s so wrong with it, and I can’t apologize for something if I think it’s not wrong.” He took a few steps back so he could see them both withouth turning his head. Assuming they weren’t playing UNO but ‘DUO’ he said his next words. “Now … Considering the two of you were so eager to spent the time together, you can spend it together all you wish.” He threw his passkey underhand to Tommy. “You guys enjoy the room. No reason for you to be coy, Tommy. Since you already had your little date, why not give it a happy ending as well. Assuming you didn’t already do that.” He looked at Helen and said. “I haven’t even said it and already I feel like a huge amount of stress just washed over me. The fake relationship is over, and you don’t have to worry about me anymore.” He put his hands on his hips and chuckled. Looking up, inhaling and exhaling as if he’s somewhere in nature he says “I’ve been wanting to do that for sooo long.” He looked back at Tommy and with a smile of relief he said “You know Tommy, during tonight’s fight you kept calling yourself my friend and manager … But I’m starting to rethink that. See, when I was a child, if I had a friend that would hang around me only to get to my brother … Well I would drop that friend as soon as I found out. So you probably understand why I wouldn’t want to be your friend anymore. I don’t even care that I never even liked Helen, or she never liked me … You still used me to get to what you want, and it feels awful. I don’t want to feel like this again. I’m getting my own room tonight, and tomorrow I’ll stick around. We can talk about you keeping your job tomorrow morning.” He then turned to Helen with tears in his eyes. The heartbreak of losing a friend wasn’t nearly as big as the relief he felt of that awful feeling going away. With the most nonchalant voice he had, he said “Goodbye Helen, I’ll see you in California.” He didn’t want to look at Tommy or say goodbye to him to risk tearing up again. He just walked into the room where his luggage was placed by a courier. Without saying a word, he grabbed the luggage and left the room.
@ChayChay05 - Tommy
@eunoia - Helen
@Jass - mentioned Ravi (Hope you heal soon)
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