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Marie had been in Paris the past week for Fashion Week and she had gotten back early. Her boyfriend Jackson hadn't been able to come with her to fashion week because he had football training.

Jackson Corey was the quarterback for the A famous team. Jackson and Marie had been dating for two years now and she was happy in their relationship.

She metJackson at a club and he had asked for her number and she had denied him. But Jackson was persistent and messaged her on instagram and somehow convinced her to give him her number and well the rest was history.

Marie jumped into her car and drove to Jackson's building.

She kept her head down and walked into his penthouse building, she didn't want to be harassed by papparazzi or anyone really. She got into the elevator and she was feeling anxious something was nagging her, she hadn't told Jackson she was coming and she was starting to rethink coming to his apartment unannounced.

The elevator doors opened and Marie stepped out and walked down the corridor and stood in front of his door. She stared at the door and something in her did not feel right,she seemed hesitant to open the door or knock.

She took a deep breathe and opened the door, she stepped into the living room of his penthouse and saw his clothes on the floor.

Marie smiled as she thought to herself how messy Jackson was and walked up his stairs to where Jackson's bedroom was, she felt that hesitant sensation again and decided to shake it off and keep walking.

Marie reached the door and paused when she heard moans and panting. She waited for a bit as if to make sure what she had heard was correct, and there it was again.

Her heart was pounding as she thought about what to do next and how to handle herself if she was correct.

After a deep breathe she very slowly opened the door and sure enough there Jackson was on his bed on top of another woman, Marie's breathing became even faster as she waited to see if he would feel someone behind him as he betrayed her.

As she thought it couldn't get worse, it did, she heard him call one of the last names she would have ever guessed.

Jackson called one of her best friends name, Jackson had just moaned Kimberly.

All Marie could think as her eyes became cloudy was no way, she had heard wrong or it was a different Kimberly. She desperately wanted anything else to be the case as she stood in her bboyfriend'sroom hearing him moan one of her best friends name.

Marie took a deep breath and whispered Jackson's name.

Jackson froze and turned and saw Marie standing by his bedroom door looking crestfallen.

Jackson jumped off of the girl and as Marie looked she could see that it was indeed one of her best friends Kimberly Marie couldn't take it anymore and began walking away from both of them.

She walked down the stairs and went towards his front door prepared to leave and never ever come here again, prepared to never see any of them ever again.

Jackson was calling out Marie's name running after her with shorts on but Marie was determined to keep walking.

She was Marie - Angelica Coast and her parents had taught her that no one especially no man was to disrespect her because her parent's always insisted that self respect was everything.

Jackson caught Marie's arm as she was crossing the threshold to his apartment to go outside. She halted and waited for him to speak because she did not want to cause a scene.

Marie had never been one to be dramatic she somehow always managed to keep her cool and she was determined that right now wasn't going to be any different.

Jackson sighed and said, "Marie please, let me explain."

She kept quiet and he continued saying "It was a mistake but it's because you've been so busy lately."

Marie pulled her arm away and continued on her way to the elevator and she could hear Jackson swearing as he walked behind her.

She stepped onto the elevator and kept her face stoic as Jackson stood by the elevator doors begging her with his eyes and then the doors closed and she took a deep breath trying to steady her breathing.

Marie got into her car and started it up and drove towards her penthouse.

She parked her car in the garage and then took the elevator to her penthouse. Marie got into her apartment, took off her shoes by the door, took her cap off and threw it onto the couch and followed suit as she threw herself onto the couch in her living room.

Marie looked at the ceiling and found herself thinking of all people it could have been with it was her best friend. She felt like someone had been plotting how to hurt her and had come up with the idea, it just seemed very unreal to her.

Her heart was in pain, she could feel a squeezing in her chest area and she took deep breaths. She could not decide what was hurting her more, the fact that Jackson had cheated or the fact that Kimberly had been the girl.

Everyone had known that Jackson and Marie were dating so there was no excuse at all. Her phone hadn't stopped vibrating ever since she left Jackson's building.

She waited for it to stop and she picked it up and saw missed calls from Jackson and not even one from Kimberly at this thought a tear slipped out of her eye and her phone started vibrating again.

Marie screamed and threw her phone somewhere towards the wall in frustration, she heard her phone a flower vase then clatter and much to her frustration it started vibrating again.

Marie had the thickest clear cover on her phone and she wasn't surprised her phone survived the throw.

She was quite clumsy with her phone and so she had gotten and very thick cover and a very thick screen guard for her phone to avoid damaging this one and having to buy another one.

Marie laid on her couch staring at her ceiling and her phone vibrated and vibrated till it finally stopped. It got dark and she was still laying in the same position, at some point she had run out of tears and stopped crying.

Marie decided it was time to get up and do something that wasn't moping or at least get up from where she was.

She had gone through multiple stages, she had been numb, then she was sad and cried and then she got angry and now she was in a state of indifference.

Marie walked to her bedroom and took a very long shower.

She always found that after long showers things seemed to seem better but as she stepped out of her long shower she realised not even a shower somwthing that always helped was going to make her feel better about her supposed best friend and what had happened.

Marie put on her pyjamas, plugged her phone in so it could charge and crawled into her huge bed.

She got comfortable and snuggled with her huge teddybear, Mister Fluffy.

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