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"natalie" he says knocking on the door

"yeah come in" she says wiping her tears

"hey hey what's wrong" he says walking toward her to comfort her

"nothing i'm fine really"

"nat it's me you can tell me what's wrong"

"nothing i'm just stressed"

"about what"

"nothing dave i'm fine"

"natalie it's me it's  david we've been best friends since middle school and we tell eachother everything it's me nat you can tell me anything and i won't judge you,you know that"

"i'm just scared"

"of what"

"you"

"what natalie i'm so sorry if i did anything to scare you or hurt you" he says getting off the bed in fear and worry

"no dave you didn't do anything" she says pulling him back on her bed

"it's just i look at you and i see a future i see us having 2 kids but i'm pregnant and i see us eating brunch that i just cooked and your helping the kids with spelling or whatever and i see standing up at an alter with me in my beautiful dress and you in your handsome tux and we're saying our vowels and expressing the love i have for you but i just can't because words can't explain how much i love you so i'll some cheesy and stupid love stuff and you'll cry and i'll cry to anyways it's stupid but i'm just scared that you don't see a future either like i see it"

he sits there smiling and admiring her

"what"

"nothing it's just i do i see us having 2 kids and you pregnant and we're on a boat at a lake and your teaching our little girl how to swim while i'm teaching our little boy how to fish and once and a while me and you share those little looks across the boat that's like everything's okay but also the i love you look but it only last for 2 seconds but it's like the world stops just for 2 seconds"

"you think about that stuff" she says smiling at him

"yeah all the time"

"really and you never tell me"

"i didn't know i was supposed to i'm sorry i don't really know how to be a boyfriend"

"dave it's fine your not doing anything wrong"

"i love you"

"i love you too"

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ilya and david were sitting in the living room just having a conversation

"natalie told me she had the same picture expect hers is us having 2 kids and she's pregnant but we're eating brunch that she just made and im helping the kids with spelling or whatever"

"good man i'm glad you guys picture the same future"

"il i'm sorry"

"no dave really it's ok"

"if it makes you feel any better i never slept with her yet"

"what"

"yeah we just never did it"

"it don't make me feel better that just makes me feel bad"

"you know when it gets like this i tend to run"

"david i have no words to express how disappointed and embarrassed i am of you"

"what are you talking about"

"david you said natalie is the love of you life your soulmate your 1 great love you never even slept with her this is just not processing in my head right now are you like scarred"

"i mean yeah"

"of what dave are a virgin did you lie to me all these years"

"no no i just what if the sex is horrible but the relationship is perfect what if it messes it all up"

"talk to her about it not me"

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