I woke up with an absolutely pounding headache, and it took me a few moments to remember that just yesterday my life had been completely turned upside down. I grabbed my phone to check the time - nearly midday - and saw another five texts and nine missed calls from the guy who had been my boyfriend until the previous evening. Glad I had managed to switch my phone to silent when I went to bed despite the amount of Jack Daniels I had drunk, I ignored them and dragged myself out from under my warm and cosy duvet to use the toilet in the en-suite wet room. Afterwards I threw on a hoody and some leggings and headed to the communal kitchen to make a cup of tea.
As I waited for the kettle to boil I was staring out of the window just thinking about the past twenty-four hours. I had been so excited to visit my boyfriend, having not seen him for weeks. I thought everything was great, so much so that when I got there I was so fired up he gave me an orgasm with his fingers in just a couple of minutes, and I then sucked and swallowed a load out of him. All the while he had another girl hiding in his wardrobe. I could feel anger and humiliation rising up in me in equal measure when I heard the front door of the flat being opened.
I turned to see one of my flatmates, Anna, walking in through the door, looking remarkably sprightly considering how drunk she had been the night before. I called a greeting and turned back to the kettle.
"Hi, Katie." She called back. "I hope you don't mind but my friend Isabelle is going to stay here tonight; she's having some boy trouble."
"Oh, I hear that." I replied as the kettle clicked and I poured water into my mug. "I'm not having the best of it either."
"Oh shit." Anna replied. "Make us a couple of cups of tea and we'll be right in to talk about it."
I heard Anna and her friend unzipping coats, dropping bags and chatting as I grabbed a couple more mugs, threw a tea bag in each of them, and filled them up with water. I wasn't sure how much I really wanted to talk about it, but I had blurted it out now and Anna, the most outgoing and chatty of the girls in our flat, wouldn't be about to let me get away with sparing any detail.
I had just poured the milk into the tea when I heard Anna and Isabelle come into the kitchen behind me. I turned with a mug in each hand to pass to them, but as soon as I set eyes on Isabelle they both slipped from my grasp and went crashing to the floor. The mugs shattered into what seemed like thousands of pieces and the hot tea splashed over my feet. The confusion I was feeling made my head feel like it too had shattered into thousands of pieces. Standing before me, completely open mouthed and in a similar state of astonishment, was the girl who just yesterday evening had been hiding in my boyfriend's wardrobe.
I could feel the tea burning my feet, but I was frozen in place by the shock. I couldn't stop staring, and she just stared back. I don't know how long we stayed like that but Anna was suddenly beside me, trying to move me away from the hot tea and sharp fragments of china from the mugs. A sharp dig in my ribs snapped me out of my trance, and on breaking eye contact with Isabelle she too suddenly got over the shock. The room was immediately filled by the pair of us screaming at the top of our lungs. I have no idea what I said, nor what I heard, but I do know that we were both extremely loud, and within seconds had tears cascading down our cheeks. Anna, completely befuddled by this, shouted at us both to stop, at first only adding to the level of noise but, eventually, getting through to us. We stopped screaming, but had again locked eyes on each other, and were breathing extremely heavily. Surprisingly calmly Anna managed to talk us into the living area and into a soft chair each. Somehow this was enough to make me feel a little better.
Ignoring the chaos in the kitchen Anna asked what on earth had happened. I looked at Isabelle and she shrugged, so I told Anna the story from my perspective. The planned surprise, going to his door wearing only my boots and coat, the fact that I was so horny I came within a couple of minutes (something I wouldn't normally share), the blowjob and swallowing his load (again, not normally a topic on conversation for me), and the girl in the wardrobe: Isabelle.
Anna listened intently, and then turned to Isabelle. She added some detail that I wasn't aware of. He had told her that we had split up, and they were pretty much an item. When I arrived he told her I had gone a bit crazy and he'd get rid of me, but it would be best if I didn't know about her. From inside the wardrobe she couldn't see what was happening, and when he let her out he told her I had been crying, and that was what she had heard from her hiding place. She realised that was wrong when I came back into the room and appeared to be naked but for a coat.
Anna listened again and summed the whole thing up, "so Katie, you went to visit him, and found him cheating on you?" I nodded. "And Issy, you thought he and Katie had split up, but when she arrived you discovered he was cheating on you?" Isabelle nodded too. "Well... how are we going to make that bastard pay then?"