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Green Eyed Monster - "The Boyfriend Trap"
Prelude
"If you wanted to fuck her in the first place, why the hell did you hook up with me?" Robin yelled at Sam, her boyfriend, as she began packing her belongings into her suitcase. She had just returned to their apartment to find him in bed with Brandy, the apartment complex's resident slut and her next-door neighbor.
"It just happened, Robin!" Sam tried to explain.
"What do you mean 'IT JUST HAPPENED'?" she said to him. "Tell me how you 'JUST HAPPENED' to end up on our bed with your dick in her ass. Let me guess, Brandy 'JUST HAPPENED' to come over while I was gone and said to you innocently, 'Sam, would you please give me a proctologic exam with your dick?'"
Busted, Sam just stood there in silent resignation to the fact that nothing he could say was going to help.
She didn't even wait for his response. She just picked up her bag and walked out of the apartment, slamming the door on her way out.
Chapter One
With nowhere else to go, she went to the apartment of her friend Jack and knocked on the door.
When Jack opened the door, it was to find Robin standing there crying with suitcase in hand.
"What's wrong? Are you OK? You're not hurt are you?" Jack asked in rapid succession.
Robin dropped the bag and wrapped her arms around her friend. Crying into his shoulder as she said, "He was fucking her!"
Puzzled, Jack enquired, "Who was fucking whom?"
Robin cried some more and then choked out, "Sam! I came home early from work and he was fucking Brandy right there in our bedroom."
Having never been this close to his friend, Jack awkwardly put his arms around Robin and held her as he muttered to himself, "God, I hope he used a condom."
After a few minutes, when she had stopped crying he picked up her bag and brought it inside closing the door after him. Not being able to think of anything else to say, he asked her, "Have you had dinner yet? You might feel a little better if you have something to eat?"
"Eat, I can't eat at a time like this. I don't even have a place to stay." She said to him.
Wanting to help his friend, he told her, "If you want, you can use the hide-a-bed couch until you can find an apartment of your own."
"You'd do that for me?" she asked and she could tell from the look in his eyes that he had no intention of taking advantage of the situation.
With a hurt look on his face, he said, "Of course! What are friends for?"
Forgetting her pain for a second, Robin felt embarrassed for having questioned her friend and she began to wonder why she had never noticed before how genuinely Jack cared about her.
He ordered pizza, they ate and they spent the rest of the night talking. Whenever she would bring up Sam, Jack would always manage to steer the conversation away to some other subject.
When they weren't working, they actually spent quite a bit of time together. He seemed to be going out of his way to keep her busy. After she realized that Jack wasn't making a play for her, it dawned on her what he had been doing, He had simply been trying to keep her mind occupied so she wouldn't dwell on the breakup. It had worked! She hadn't thought about Sam or Brandy in days.
Chapter Two
It had been three months since the breakup and she was still sleeping on the couch in his apartment. He had never asked her about finding a place of her own and she had become quite comfortable living there.
She had begun to see a side of her friend that she had never really noticed before. She had started noticing things about him that she had not seen before, like the fact that he would always put whatever spare change he had into a collection jar for one charity or another when he could.
Once, she was really surprised when, late one night, they went to Wal-mart to buy a DVD that was on sale. It had been almost freezing outside when they got there and standing in front of the store, smoking a cigarette, was one of the store's employees. The woman had no jacket on and was obviously cold. As he walked to the store entrance, he detoured over to her, took off his jacket, handed it to the woman and said, "I'm getting cold just looking at you, just leave it at the register when you're done with it." Then, he walked away before the woman could say anything.
Robin asked him if he knew the woman and he said, "Nope, never seen her before."
She knew he didn't smoke and said to him, "Aren't you worried about the cigarette smell?"
He had simply responded, "Nobody should ever go cold; besides, the jacket can be washed."
Sure enough, his jacket was waiting for him at the register on the way out. The woman he had loaned it to had made the cashier promise to thank him for her.
She lay awake one night unable to sleep. Her mind was trying to make since out of his behavior. He was kind to her; but then, he was kind to everyone. He had been generous with her; but then, he was also generous with everyone else. While he had never said it, his actions showed his genuine affection for her.