Fenny looked at her reflection in the mirror. She looked awful. She was too short, only 5'6", her tits were too big at 36D, and now her ass was starting to look fat β no wonder since the scales were now close to hitting 130 lbs. Pretty soon she was bound to have huge thighs, floppy arms and a fat belly. No wonder she was still single at the age of 26. She brushed her shoulder length blonde hair and applied some makeup to bring out her emerald green eyes. Were those wrinkles that she was starting to get? She was doomed to stay single for the rest of her life.
Maybe she shouldn't have left Ian. Sure, he'd been a complete asshole and he'd abused her, but at least she'd had a man. She'd been Ian's fiancΓ©e. She hadn't been Fenny-she's-single-don't-you-know. Now it felt as though the whole world looked at her as if she were some kind of a freak. What was wrong with this girl who was still single at the ripe old age of 26?
A knock on the door woke Fenny from her daydreams.
"Are you ready, Fen?" called her brother. "People will start arriving any minute now."
At the age of 30 Fenny's brother Phil was a playboy. He owned a fantastic apartment, he'd made a small fortune in banking and he had a different girlfriend every week. Nobody ever questioned why he was still single. It was different for guys. They weren't seen as failures or over-the-hill if they hadn't nailed themselves a wife by the time they were 25. Almost every weekend he threw lavish parties and this was the first time he'd managed to persuade Fenny to come since she walked out on Ian. She slipped into a little black dress that showed off every curve in her body and prayed that Phil would turn the lights down low so that nobody could see how fat her ass was getting, or her big tits. She was dreading this. Why had she agreed to come tonight? It was going to be Phil's single friends, who all knew that she was no longer engaged, and a lot of women who were probably both younger and prettier than she was.
The party started as badly as she'd expected. People came up to her and commiserated with her on her broken engagement. They all assumed that she'd been the one who was dumped. After all, why would she β a mere teacher β dump a successful corporate lawyer? A lawyer who'd been seen with several new girls since their break-up two months earlier. Fenny on the other hand had retreated into her own shell and bought herself a rundown property to renovate. Only her brothers knew the full story. Only her brothers knew how Ian had raped her and forced her to fuck other men. Only her brothers knew that the baby she'd lost after Ian had beaten her had not been Ian's, but the product of her fiancΓ© making another guy fuck her without a condom. Only Ian knew whether there'd been any permanent damage when Fenny's brothers beat him to a pulp the night after they helped her move all her stuff out of his house. This thought made Fenny smile and she looked straight into the eyes of Andy.
"It's good to see you smile, Fen," said Andy and kissed her cheek before sitting down next to her.
"Hi Andy! I didn't know you were coming tonight!" Fenny's face lit up as she started talking with Phil's best friend. Phil and Andy had been best friends as long as Fenny could remember and when she was a teenager she'd had a massive crush on him. Unfortunately they'd never been single at the same time, not that Andy had ever shown any interest in her. Now he was living with his girlfriend. "Is Celeste here tonight?"
"No," was Andy's short answer.
"Is something the matter," asked Fenny, feeling the tension in the body next to hers on the couch.
Andy sighed. "I guess you'll find out sooner or later. Celeste dumped me."
The stupid bitch! She didn't know what a good thing she had in Andy. "Oh, I'm so sorry. When did that happen?"
"Last weekend. It was the second anniversary of our first date and the first anniversary of her moving in with me. I thought it would be romantic as hell to propose to her. She took one look at the engagement ring, laughed in my face and took off. Monday night when I came home from work, she'd cleared out all her stuff. I guess I wasn't good enough for her."
"Not good enough for her?" Fenny couldn't believe her ears. "You're tall, fit and good-looking. You run your own company and last time I heard you were really successful. How can you not be good enough for her?"
Andy smiled and his blue eyes beamed into Fenny's green. "I need to hire you as my personal PR assistant."
"I'm only telling the truth."
"Oh, sweet innocent Fenny. Love, devotion and a promise to provide for her to the best of my abilities isn't enough for every woman. Celeste's sister is married to Lord Something-or-other. Celeste herself used to date the heir of some billionaire businessman before she met me. She was just slumming it with me and I was foolish enough to think that she would actually consider spending the rest of her life with me."
Fenny and Andy spent the next few hours on the couch, talking about everything under the sun. The topics of Ian and Celeste were off limits, but other than that they shared everything. Despite having known each other for over 20 years they realised that they hadn't known each other all that well, but now they discovered how much they had in common. They loved the same movies, they read the same books, they even listened to the same music (apart from Andy's fascination with 70's pop music, which was a bit embarrassing, but he didn't hold the fact that Fenny was quite happy to relax with a bowl of popcorn in front of a mushy romantic movie against her). He made her laugh like she hadn't laughed for a long time and he was genuinely interested when she told him little anecdotes from her life as a third grade teacher.
Before she knew what had happened the apartment seemed empty and she was feeling rather tipsy. She looked around and all the guests seemed gone, apart from the redhead her brother was making out with in the corner.
"Do you want another drink?" Andy asked and Fenny realised that she'd had far too much already. Andy had kept topping up her glass and she'd lost count of how much she'd had.
"No, thanks," she replied. "I think I've had enough. What time is it?"
"It's just after 2 a.m." Andy replied. "I guess that's why the place is so empty. I totally lost track of time."
"Me too," Fenny smiled at him. "I've really enjoyed myself tonight. I'm glad I came."
"So am I," Andy said. "I wasn't going to, but Phil talked me into it."
"Same here."