Chapter 7

I was turning down Jared’s road when I seen someone in the distance. Walking down from his driveway. It was a woman. She had on high heels and one of those bodycon pink dresses on. It was hard to miss since it was barely noon. I slowed my driving to see where she was headed. When she kept walking down the road, I pulled up to her and put my window down.

“Hey, do you need a lift somewhere? Those heels look super uncomfortable to be walking anywhere.” I said with as friendly of a smile I could put on. The curiosity in me just couldn’t handle knowing if this was the girl Jared had cheated on me with.

“Uhm, actually I would LOVE a drive to the end of the road. There’s a little parking lot there. My boy toy makes me park down there so no one sees my car in his drive.”

Boy toy? A rush of anger filled my body. But I had to know more, so I kept my cool.

“Does he live up there? It’s such a nice house. I think I went to a party there once.”

She had no idea who I was. “Yeah, he produces music or something. Super hot.”

“How long have you been seeing each other?”

“Well I’ve been to a few parties and we had an awesome night a couple weeks back. But apparently he has a girlfriend. BUT she found my panties or something, and told me to come get them.” She then grinned. “But he must have not been able to resist me again because he couldn’t keep his hands off me. I don’t think that girlfriend is doing it for him.”

The rage was back. But I decided that it wasn’t her who deserved my anger. It was most definitely Jared.

I drove back around to Jared’s drive. His camera’s must have caught my car because he was already outside in the drive. He also realized I had picked up his “one nighter” and chatted with her.

I have never slammed a car door in my life, but this was the exact moment where is was necessary. He couldn’t get any words out before I pulled the ring off my finger and threw it at him from the remaining distance. I yelled “We are so over.” Then got back into my car and sped off.

It’s not like I was planning staying with him after he cheated on me. But this was an entire new feeling of sadness and rage. It wasn’t just the one time. Thankfully I got to my place before I fully broke down. I opened the door and just sat on the floor. I couldn’t even make it to my bed. Everything hurt. I felt so betrayed. After about an hour of feeling horrible and awful about myself, I decided to make a bad decision. If he could party so hard to forget about me, maybe I could do the same. I put on a sexy black dress and heels that have never been out of the box. I did my makeup and hung on to that rage feeling. It was the only thing that was going to keep me from crying.

I called an Uber- because I’m not stupid- and had him drop me off at one of the college bars downtown. I turned my phone off, and started a tab.