This story is posted on the Literotica website. Do not repost anywhere else without the author's consent. For fans of my stories, they know what kinds of things to expect. This story deals with similar themes as the stories by wannabeboytoy, seducedHylas, and Dark Betrayal, namely cheating, betrayal, and heartbreak. If stuff like that isn't your cup of tea, then you probably shouldn't bother reading it. I do not condone any of these actions in real life. This is just a story. Enjoy.
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Pictures of Tyler and Janie were flashing across the screen as their favorite song played in the background. You could see that picture of them when they first met at a party, years prior, arms around each others' shoulders, looking young and fresh faced, their whole lives in front of them.
The pictures told the story of their courtship, from high school into college. The first few pictures showed the early days of their relationship, showing the tentativeness and nervousness in their eyes, but the love as well. Then sitting next to each other at a football game, happy to be together. Pictures of them hanging out at her house with some of their friends, young and in love. Them curled up together at a ski lodge, cheeks red from the freezing cold, but so happy to be together.
The pictures showed them growing up together, filling out and becoming young adults. For Tyler, gone was the gawkiness of youth as he became a handsome, fit, athletic young man. And for Janie, these pictures tracked the growth from a lanky teenager to the stylish, pretty young woman she had become. It showed them in their graduation gowns, so excited to have escaped high school and move on to the next stage of their lives together. The peak of their happiness was showing them at college, freshly moved into their respective dorms, so happy, so excited, so ready for the future. From the first few months of college the pictures maintained this happiness, pictures of them in the dorms, with new friends at a party. All of them showed the young couple and they looked so happy together. So in love.
But then the pictures changed.
Her happy, excited smiles lessened. The lightness behind her angelic face dimmed. And he sensed the change in their relationship's tone, as his smiles and posture seemed more unsure, as if he didn't know what was wrong. And for her, the pictures showed her discomfort, as if she wasn't sure this is what she wanted. In the last picture of Tyler and Janie, she was barely putting in the effort to pretend to look content. The discomfort in her was obvious looking at it now. Something was worrying her. And whereas before the happy romantic song playing in the background seemed to match the excited tone of the young couple in the photos, now, it seemed sad, singing out for a relationship on the rocks. Something had gotten to her, something that was changing their relationship forever.
"I hate this fucking song," Carlos said, changing stations on the radio.
Tyler was shaken out of his reverie by his friend doing this. He pulled his eyes from his phone to look at the road. He had been, once again like he had the last few nights, looking at pictures of him and Janie together. What once was, but was no longer.
He and Janie had broken up.
He studied the last picture again. Was this the point where she had already decided to do it? To break it off with him. Even there, in that last picture, he could see the hurt in her eyes. It was as if she didn't even know if she wanted to break up with him. As if she was being pressured into doing something she herself didn't want to do and break it off with him. Tyler kept studying these pictures, looking for hidden meaning.
"Dude, I am ready to pass out," Carlos said, rubbing his eyes, trying to keep them open as he drove through the repetitive darkness of Florida highways.
"Dude, I appreciate the help, but... we don't have to make the whole drive in one day," Tyler said. "Let's just find the first hotel we can and crash for the night. Start fresh in the morning."
"Yeah, sounds like a good idea," Carlos relented, veering onto the off ramp. Tyler glanced over from the passenger seat at his friend behind the wheel. Even though he could see his exhaustion, Tyler appreciated what he was doing for him. How he was helping him out. How he was helping Tyler in his quest to win Janie back. A few minutes later, the two friends were pulling into the parking lot of a hotel. They stepped out and stretched, having been cooped up in the car all day. As they got a room, got settled and began to finally relax, Tyler reflected on what brought him here.
Tyler had never been this spontaneous before.
A few days prior, the 19-year-old was at school, ready to head home to meet up with some friends for his first ever College Spring Break alongside his girlfriend. But now, after having driven almost 1000 miles with his buddy, Carlos, he found himself in the middle of nowhere, at a crappy hotel in Florida, sitting in a gurgling outdoor hot tub, planning out what he would do to win his girlfriend back.
It had been a crazy few days. It seemed like out of nowhere his longtime girlfriend, Janie, just dumped him. They had been together since high school, and things had been going well even as they both went to college together. But her new group of friends never really seemed to like him and Tyler had no doubt that this sudden decision was spurred by them. He just knew they were always in her ear, trying to get her to dump him, for whatever reason, and they must have finally just wore Janie down and convinced her that she should be single, like all of them were. Tyler had been absolutely shocked and heartbroken by this, because he loved Janie. He was already imagining marrying her. But these new friends of hers were a rougher, worldlier crowd than their friends from their Midwest home.