Issues

IV.IV

I feel unsteady
Where's my love?

Setting: Kris's House, Calabasas, CA

Demi hit the 'recents' tab on her phone, glancing at the nibbled down nub that was the nail on her thumb before clicking on Cristo's contact, putting it on speaker as soon as the call went through then whimpering in disappointment when he sent her to voicemail...again. But this time his voicemail box was actually full so she couldn't leave a message pleading with him to at least return one of her calls. Demi let her phone drop to the ground before rolling over and burying her face into her silky purple pillows.

Filming had been put on hold. Anything that had to do with the wedding had been pushed back after Demi had dragged herself – and her dogs – to Kris's house after Cristo left her. Ever since then she had tried but failed at trying to reach him and he had made it clear that he didn't want to talk to her. Everyone was trying their best to make her feel better but Demi didn't deserve their comfort or their pity because she had done this to herself. She just couldn't stop crying. She really wanted to marry Cristo and now he was gone and Demi really wasn't sure how she was supposed to get him back. Was she supposed to give him space? What if she gave him space and that just made him realize that going through this with her really wasn't worth it, and that they were just better off going their separate ways?

Demi released another strangled cry at the thought of it. The worst part was that Demi had been so busy hiding out that she hadn't even gotten to tell Cristo about the whole marriage thing herself. He found out from someone else. If he hadn't heard Kris talking about the divorce papers and if he hadn't gotten those rings from Trey, then she would've been able to calmly sit down with him and explain that at one point in her relationship with Trey, they had loved each other enough to get married. She could explain how she had every intention of filing the papers but she got caught up in life and she never got the chance to. She could explain how she wasn't still married to Trey because she still had feelings for him; that she was still married to him because she had been stupid and not filed those stupid papers.

After wallowing in self-pity for about thirty more minutes, Demi rolled off of the bed, grabbing her phone off of the floor before snatching her wallet and car keys off of her night stand. She needed to get Cristo back and that started off with confronting Trey for giving Cristo those stupid rings in the first place. He hadn't given them back to her when they were sleeping together or when they found out that she was pregnant, so why did he decide to give them back all of the sudden, and to Cristo of all people? She was sure that it had something to do with him confessing that he was still in love with her. Demi's sadness slowly turned into anger as she jogged down the spiral staircase, walking out into the fresh air for the first time in days and getting into her car.

Setting: Trey's House, Hidden Hills, CA