Linsey & TJ: "Don't Start"

“Don’t start,” he said.

“I didn’t.”

There was silence.

She lit another cigarette.

“What are we going to do?” she asked, exhaling.

“About what?” He wasn’t facing her.

“About us.”

He turned around.

“I don’t think now is the time.”

“I think it is,” she said.

“Linsey.”

“TJ just be honest with yourself and with me. You know you can talk to me any time about anything. So if you think we should just keep this as a friend thing, you gotta let me know. ‘Cause it’s driving me crazy how you’re being. You hardly look at me and when you do I get the eye roll. And when you talk to me its either, ‘don’t start’ or ‘shut up.’ Just give it to me straight.” 

“Straight?” he asked her.

She nodded.

“Straight is, I don’t know what we’re going to do. I know I love you. Can’t that be enough?” He ran his hand over his head. “Why can’t it be enough that I don’t hold any of this against you? And that I love you? That should be enough, because it’s all I have.”

“But I…” she started.

He cut her off.

“No, Linsey, no buts.” He reached for her. “That’s all I can give you now. I love you and that’s that.”

“Then that’s enough,” she said.