Angela stood off to the side leaning against the wall looking incredibly bored by her own standards she couldn't imagine what everyone else at this party thought if she thought she looked this bored. She was wondering how she could make her escape when she saw him walk into the room. Like the fucking poster child for the Carly Simon song "You're So Vain". Damn him. Why did he have to show up here tonight? He didn't even like the bitch they were here to honor tonight. She was only here because her girlfriends had dragged her to this stupid party, "free booze" had been their refrain and, well she really didn't want to spend another Friday night in the bar.
Now came the fun part trying to be invisible, which shouldn't have been that hard except, oh fuck he was heading straight for her. She tried to merge with the tacky floral wallpaper, but apparently that wasn't working for her because he stopped right in front of her.
"Hello Ange? How are you doing this evening?" he asked.
She thought to herself I'd be a whole fucking lot better if you weren't here, but she didn't say it out loud instead she said "I'm fine Ted how are you?" I'm wishing you would get struck down by twelve bolts of lightning right now that's all.
He laughed, "I somehow don't think you're sincere in wanting to talk to me."
She smiled sweetly at him "Whatever gave you that idea you vain, self serving man whore." She fumed as she stomped away from him only to be stopped when he grabbed her arm.
"Do you really want to do this here?" he asked from between clenched teeth "because damn it I told you that never happened and that she made it up but you just couldn't fucking believe me."
"You're right," she told him with acid in her voice "I don't want to do it at all. I'm leaving now. You can do me a favor and never speak to me again."
Fuck, fuck, fuck what was wrong with her? She swore that it would not degrade into this. She was better than this. So what if she found his very redheaded, very slutty secretary's underpants in his couch, because they had to be hers because God knows you could see them when she bent over at the office. She had to stop this because this was not helping her in the revenge fuck arena if she was this bitter. She got in her car and sat there trying not to cry, damn him.
Ted stared down into his drink, even more morose than when he got to the party. Patty had called him and told him Angela would be here tonight and that she was pretty sure she was miserable without him. Of course she'd also told him that if he was really was a lying, cheating, son of a bitch she'd cut his balls off for hurting her best friend. That was enough to make any man want to tell the truth.
Angela had never believed him. She'd always sworn that a pair of panties in his office couch was gospel. Never mind the fact that he'd fired Ginger the next day for pulling that shit. Fuck it he couldn't do this anymore, he was pretty damn sure she was going home and he was sick of it. Sick of not having her, not being able to come home and fuck her anymore, and it wasn't just that she turned on his mind too. The idea of someone else having her made him want to slam his fist into the wall. He couldn't live like this; he was going to turn into a fucking lunatic at this rate. Someone tried to stop him on his way out, but he just brushed her off and went to find his car. He was ending this one-way or the other tonight.
Angela was curled up on her couch in her robe and slippers bawling her eyes out...again. God she needed help or Valium...that might work. But she'd always hated pills they made her feel worse in the morning than the temporary fix they gave her. She was just starting to fade into blissful tear induced oblivion when someone started beating on her door. If I ignore them they'll go away she thought. Not that she wanted to see anyone period she was sure she looked like shit now, she hadn't even bothered to take off her makeup. This was wonderful they wouldn't go away. She got up and looked through the peephole onto her doorstep and "What the fuck?" she said aloud. What was Ted doing here?
"I know you're in there Angie. Open the damn door so I can talk to you. Please." Ted said from the other side of the door.
She opened the door slowly. "It was the please that got the door open, but I'm not letting you in the house." She told him with her arms crossed tightly over her chest. She wouldn't look him in the eye, God because then he'd know she'd been crying...over him. Was there no justice in the world? And just when she wasn't paying attention he kissed her and she really couldn't think anymore. He didn't taste like the liar she accused him of being. He tasted wonderful and his tongue was doing all sorts of nice things to her mouth, especially once she opened it and his tongue slipped in to meet hers. Fuck, no, no, no, lying, cheating son of a bitch and she pushed him away fuming and defiant beneath the haze of pure lust.