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?"
From the looks on our faces, and at each other, Anna realised she needed to add more. "Listen, both of you, neither of you are to blame. Katie, Issy thought he'd split up with you. Issy, Katie didn't even know you existed. He's the one in the wrong, and if he's hurt two of my friends I want him to hurt too." Isabelle and I looked at each other and nodded. "Excellent," said a clearly pleased with herself Anna, "let's make a plan."
Over the course of the next couple of hours the three of us chatted away about the crazy situation. Anna could never have guessed that two parts of her life would come crashing together in this way and as Isabelle and I got to know each other I found that I liked her a lot. This wasn't that surprising since we were both good friends with Anna, but still felt weird after the way we had met the day before. We even laughed about how ridiculous it must have looked as we each left his room; her with unbuttoned jeans and only a bra, running past people to get away, and me in even less, just my boots and coat, marching past a group of onlookers.
It was getting on well with Isabelle that made me really want to have some revenge. Between us we came up with a plan. I wasn't sure quite how comfortable I was with it at first, but as we talked it through I became convinced it was what I wanted. Isabelle and I both wanted to have a shower before we left, so I went back to my room and Isabelle went to Anna's, while Anna cleared up the mess in the kitchen.
As I threw off my hoody and peeled off my leggings and knickers I suddenly felt vulnerable, even in my own room. Determined not to let him make me feel like that I fought that feeling and concentrated on making him feel the embarrassment and humiliation he had made me feel. As I got in the shower I could feel some of the frustration melting away with the hot water, strengthening my resolve. Even though I had only done so the day before, I shaved my legs, and even tidied up my bush a little. I normally left it natural as it was so light and fine, but I wanted to look the part. When I had finished washing I turned the shower as cold as it would go. I always did this, as my older sister told me years ago it was good for pale skin like ours. The cold water really woke me up, and, as usual, I felt the pleasure of my nipples hardening and areolae tightening. After a few seconds I turned off the shower and stepped out of the wet room still wrapping my towel around me. I was shocked to see Anna rifling through my wardrobe. Instinctively pulling the towel tight around me I snapped, "bloody hell, Anna, don't you think I've had enough surprises?"
"Sorry, Katie, but I just want to make sure you wear the right thing." I almost said something, but I saw that she had already laid out a matching set of underwear on the bed, along with a skirt that was too short for winter and a fairly low-cut top. "That's what I'm thinking so far, but if I find anything more suitable I'll get it out. Come on, get dressed."
It was more effort than I normally went to on a night out, but I dressed as Anna directed. Black knickers and bra with white polka dots, a short black skirt, a navy blue low cut top, and black boots. I even wore a bit of make-up, which I hardly ever did. I felt underdressed, but once I had a long coat on, not the one from the day before, it was ok. Isabelle had borrowed a dress from Anna. A dark green, knee length number that hugged her figure and hardly held in her boobs. She too looked out of place, but a coat again made all the difference. She borrowed a pair of brown boots from me, as Anna's were too small, which further complemented her olive skin, dark hair and brown eyes.