After We Collided

Tessa rushes past Hardin and storms up to some guy, kissing him. Hardin grabs the guy and punches him. Tessa pulls him off, and Hardin angrily rushes out to his car. Tessa accuses Hardin of sleeping with the girl who had his phone. Hardin explains that the girl was Dan’s sister; he was apologizing to her for taking a video of a sexual encounter between the two of them and sending screenshots to Dan. Tessa apologizes, but Hardin is enraged and leaves her there.

Tessa can’t believe Hardin would just leave her at the party. She tells Zed what happened, and he offers her a ride home. When they are nearly at the apartment, Tessa realizes that Hardin has her phone and her keys. Zed’s phone battery is dead. Zed insists on walking Tessa to her door. When Hardin finally opens the door, he’s drunk. Hardin invites them in and pours everyone drinks. Hardin accuses Zed of attempting to seduce Tessa based on some things Zed told Molly. Tessa asks Zed to leave, and he does, reluctantly. Hardin accuses Tessa of being promiscuous. Tessa goes to the bedroom and hears Hardin break the glasses and the liquor bottle.

Hardin continues to destroy the living room, breaking furnishings as Tessa begs him to stop. Hardin yells that her actions have hurt him and that everyone in a relationship hurts their significant other. Hardin accuses Tessa of only going out with him to hurt her mother. Tessa throws accusations about Molly back at Hardin. He moves to leave, but Tessa takes his keys. As they struggle, Tessa momentarily thinks Hardin might hurt her. This sobers him. Tessa accuses him of being like his dad, and he accuses her of being like her mom. Tessa locks herself in the bedroom and reads Hardin’s letter, clinging to that version of him. In the middle of the night, she finds him sleeping in the hallway.

Hardin is gone when Tessa wakes the next morning, but the living room has been cleaned. He arrives home sometime later with a new lamp to replace the one he broke. They apologize to each other. Hardin expresses frustration with Tessa’s actions and calls her out for bringing Zed to their apartment. She says Zed is her friend even though Hardin clearly has an issue with their friendship after Zed’s part in the bet over Tessa. She asks him to stop drinking and he agrees.

Hardin takes Tessa into the bedroom and teaches her how to pleasure herself.

On Monday, the new semester starts. Tessa and Landon share several classes, but she and Hardin do not, something he complains about. Tessa and Hardin take a shower together as she tells him her new schedule.

Hardin drives Tessa to school. Landon joins them, and Tessa bids Hardin goodbye. Landon and Tessa’s first class is World Religion, where they learn that most of their grade will be based on a journal they are required to keep. After her classes, Tessa heads to the gym for yoga. As Tessa walks to class, a boy stops her and flirts with her until Hardin shows up and chases him away.

Hardin has signed up for the yoga class too. They practice yoga, with Hardin distracted by Tessa even as he distracts the other students with his good looks.

Hardin teases Tessa about being attracted to one of the girls in the yoga class. When they arrive back at the apartment, they discover the heat is off. Hardin calls maintenance. They take advantage of the 15-minute window to have sex.

After Hardin and Tessa have sex in the living room, Hardin becomes annoyed when the maintenance man leers at Tessa. He sends Tessa to the bedroom, where she gets a call from Kimberly asking if she and Hardin can babysit Smith while Kimberly takes an ill Christian to the hospital. Hardin refuses, but Tessa agrees anyway.

Tessa is excited to babysit, but Smith refuses to speak to her from the moment he arrives. Hardin sits with the boy while Tessa makes dinner. Smith asks if Hardin and Tessa are married, to which Hardin emphatically says no. When Smith asks if they have children, Hardin is again emphatic in his reply. Hardin goes into the kitchen to find Tessa crying, but she blames it on the onions.

They eat dinner. While Tessa cleans up, Smith asks if his father is going to die from his illness like his mother did. Hardin assures him Christian will be fine.

Tessa is upset to learn that Hardin has no intention of ever getting married or having kids. She wonders what the point of their relationship is, then.

Kimberly calls to check on Smith and is surprised to hear Smith has hit it off with Hardin so well. As Smith and Hardin discuss a television show, Tessa leaves them to go to bed. Hardin comes to say goodnight, aware she is upset but assuming it’s because Smith didn’t want to hang out with her.

At work the following day, Tessa reads a particularly sad manuscript. She goes home to find Hardin complaining about being too tired to do anything. He jokes that he will skip the hockey game with Landon, but then admits he’s still going. Landon arrives and Tessa wishes him luck.

Landon and Hardin are awkward together, but they enjoy the game. Afterward, Landon accidentally bumps into a man who is drunk whose friend attempts to start a fight. Hardin comes to his rescue.

As they drive home, Hardin and Landon talk about Landon’s plan to move to New York to be closer to his girlfriend, since her career will keep her in New York for the unforeseeable future. Landon cautiously chastises Hardin for assuming Tessa will want to move to London with him, when everyone knows Tessa wants to move to Seattle. At home, Hardin watches Tessa sleep on the couch.

Hardin carries Tessa to bed, shocked to hear her say Zed’s name in her sleep. Hardin writes a note for Tessa and leaves to go to a local bar.

Tessa wakes to find Hardin gone, but finds a note telling her he went to have breakfast with Ken. Tessa meets Landon for coffee. She realizes Hardin’s note wasn’t truthful when Landon has no knowledge of this breakfast plan. In World Religion, Tessa is given the assignment of writing in her journal about faith. All through the day, Hardin fails to respond to Tessa’s texts, and she wonders if he’s out cheating on her with Molly.

Hardin had too much to drink the night before and Carly, an old acquaintance, took him home with her to sleep it off. Carly drives Hardin back to his car while he checks Tessa’s text messages. He gets a bad feeling and when he looks up, he sees a car accident. Hardin recognizes Tessa’s car. Hardin finds Tessa in the back of an ambulance with some minor injuries. She ran into the other car. As Hardin attempts to take her away, they run into Carly, who lets it slip that Hardin went to a bar the night before and spent the day at Carly’s. Tessa becomes angry and goes in the ambulance to the hospital.

Landon arrives at Hardin’s apartment to find him drinking. Landon accuses Hardin of causing Tessa’s accident—it was his text message that distracted Tessa from the road. Hardin admits he was drinking because Tessa said Zed’s name in her sleep. Tessa arrives with Zed, causing Hardin to explode at Zed. Tessa goes into the bedroom to pack her things, accusing Hardin of cheating on her. Hardin insists he didn’t, but Tessa isn’t interested in listening and leaves.

Tessa moves into Hardin’s old room at Karen and Ken’s, spending the first week there crying. Hardin never calls or texts. Tessa calls him twice, but he doesn’t answer or call back. Tessa slowly begins returning to her regular routine and even eats a little. Karen reminds Tessa about a party Christian is throwing before moving to Seattle. Tessa agrees to go with Ken and Karen, but Landon will be in New York helping his girlfriend Dakota move into her new apartment. Tessa is a little put off by her new World Religion journal topic: pain. Before yoga, she seeks Zed out in the environmental sciences building.

Hardin flies to London and begins drinking excessively and having nightmares again, but this time it is Tessa who is being attacked, not his mother. Hardin intentionally ignores Tessa’s first phone call, misses the second accidentally because he is passed out from drinking, and then breaks his phone after using it to look at pictures of Tessa.

At the grocery store, Hardin runs into Natalie, who is doing well: She found a new church, met a new man, and is now engaged and very pregnant.

Hardin realizes the way he feels must be the way Tessa feels when he hurts her. Trish tells Hardin about Christian moving to Seattle and the party he’s throwing. Although Hardin knows Tessa will be at the party, he rejects his mother’s suggestion he go.