[ CW ] Write a creative story using only dialogue .

`` What do you mean you ’ re not sure?'' 
 
 `` I mean I ’ m not sure if I ’ m ready for something like this, Angela, at least not so serious this soon.'' 
 
 `` You ’ ve been saying this for almost a month, Nick. What is it with you? Don ’ t you love me?'' 
 
 `` I do love you. I think.'' 
 
 `` You think? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Are you screwing someone else or something?'' 
 
 `` I have issues. You know that. Jesus. Y ’ know, this is exactly why I keep avoiding this talk with you. Every time I bring something up that ’ s slightly uncomfortable, you throw a fit and I just have to drop it. But when I want to drop something, you lose your god damn mind, and that ’ s hardly fair.'' 
 
 `` Okay, fine. You ’ ve got me there; I have my faults, and all that. But you ’ re so affectionate with me. In bed, out shopping, wherever. We ’ ve been doing everything together. Remember when we just stayed in bed for three days straight? Three days! We didn ’ t even bother to get up to shower, but we did for the Domino ’ s guy. We fucked, we ate, we watched Netflix. For three days in a row. And you ’ re still telling me it ’ d give you cancer if we got together? Jesus, Nick. Give me a fucking break.'' 
 
 `` They always say that you should never bring up any of your exes on the first date. Or any date, really. And I was doing my best to avoid any of that as long as I could. It really isn ’ t that big of a deal, now that I think about it. I think I ’ m just a drama queen. The last few girlfriends were just... cunts.'' 
 
 `` Alright, but can you not use that word?'' 
 
 `` Sorry, I know you hate that. But my point still stands. I just remember the first girl I ever starting seeing seriously was, like, three years ago. When I told her I didn ’ t love her about three weeks into the whole thing,, she lost her mind and reported me to campus police, saying that I tried to beat the shit out of her. You know, the sort of unreasonable fear that turns stupid men into misogynists on the internet, except it actually happened.'' 
 
 `` Wait, that thing in the blotter was you?'' 
 
 ``... Yeah. Apparently, when it comes to domestic violence, they have to make an arrest, so they arrested me, but I guess it was fine when she did that to someone else about a week and a half later, and then one more time after that. They let me go and everything, and when I started seeing Lena last year, it ’ s like she did her very best to make me feel guilty about every little thing that went wrong in her life. I knew she was a little awkward, but when I was with the guys, she always complained,'I ’ ll never be as good as you, so why don ’ t you just break up with me already?''' 
 
 `` Y ’ know, I was just about ready to tell you I didn ’ t believe you, but I remember hearing about the first thing and... Jesus. And Lena Edelston?'' 
 
 `` Yeah, actually.'' 
 
 `` Pssh. Fuck Lena. I know her, she ’ s a scumbag. And a drama queen, way worse than you.'' 
 
 `` Hah. Maybe she rubbed off on me.'' 
 
 `` Maybe she did... and I ’ m really sorry you had to deal with all that. I had no idea. Now I just feel bad.'' 
 
 ``... It's okay. Really.'' 
 
 `` I love y—'' 
 
 `` Can you not?'' 
 
 `` What the fuck else am I supposed to say?'' 
 
 `` Just cool it with the lovey shit. Both of them said that.'' 
 
 `` Nick, it ’ s not like I haven ’ t had shitty relationships, either. My last boyfriend sent out the pictures of my tits I gave him to his fraternity brothers, and he didn ’ t understand why I didn ’ t think it was funny. And the one before that had a really bad habit of trying to punch me when he was piss drunk, no matter what mood he was in before he started chugging. This isn ’ t all about you, y ’ know.'' 
 
 `` Sorry. Now I just feel bad.'' 
 
 `` Don ’ t. We ’ re all fucked up in our own way.'' 
 
 `` I know. It was really nice to get that all out, actually. Even if we both are... expressive.'' 
 
 `` Hah. That ’ s putting it lightly.'' 
 
 `` I ’ ll get over myself, promise.'' 
 
 `` You ’ d fuckin ’ better.'' 
 
 `` I will. With time. And sorry for being a dick. And my place is starting to smell like a rump, so let ’ s get out of here. `` 
 
 `` Talk more over Thai?'' 
 
 `` Yes ’ m.'' 
 
 `` Awesome. I'll drive. Think of it as a token of... something, you lazy-ass.'' 
 
 `` God, I love you.'' 
 
 `` Oh, shaddup.'' 

