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and I whirled around and yanked the door open. To my astonishment, there stood Sandy, who was also fully nude. Her ruffled hair and smeared eyeliner revealed more than I cared to know about my former boss.
              “What the hell? What the hell, you guys! Seriously?” Tim was seriously cheating on me with Sandy ? Sandy from work? Sandy who couldn’t stand me and who was constantly ripping on me for being a slut? Sandy? I tried to catch my breath but I couldn’t. The room began to spin and I grabbed onto the dresser to steady myself. Was this really happening?
              “I can explain,” Tim started. “You don’t understand, you’ve been gone so much and, I just didn’t expect to, uh, I just…” That was his excuse? I was working too much and he couldn’t control himself enough not to fuck Sandy?
              “I work more hours and suddenly you can’t keep it in your pants? Seriously? What’s your problem, Tim? I thought we had something special.” I was not going to let him see me cry. This was Tim. This was me and Tim. We were supposed to be something fantastic, something beautiful. We were supposed to have a relationship that was going to last, that was going to be magical. I had imagined growing old with Tim. I had imagined walking down the aisle and becoming his wife. Apparently I had gotten a few years too far ahead of myself because this most definitely was crashing down on me in the middle of the day, in the middle of my room, in the middle of what felt like the worst moment of my life.
              I was so angry and crushed at the same time that I didn’t know what to do, especially with Sandy standing naked in my bathroom, staring at me. Her slender body was gorgeous, her breasts perky and alert. Even her rumpled hair looked beautiful, but at this moment, I thought I had never seen anyone so ugly.
              “Oh, please, Liz,” she said suddenly. “You’re never here. What did you expect was going to happen?”
              “Sandy, get the hell out of my house before I punch you in the face.”
              I must have looked as angry as I felt because Sandy grabbed her clothes and left without a word. Tim stood, still naked, in the center of the room and continued trying to cough up an explanation.
              “You don’t know how hard I’ve been working,” Tim finally sputtered out.
              “Okay?”
              “I work really hard and you’re never here. I never get to see you anymore. All you do is go to work and class and when you’re home, it’s like you barely have time for me.”
              “You do realize I’ve been at my job less than a month, right? I’m still learning the ropes. So what, anytime I get a new job you’re going to cheat on me because I get busy?”
              “That’s not it. We’ve been drifting apart for a long time now.”
              “Well, apparently somebody forgot to tell me!” I spat out the words angrily. My stomach felt sick. I couldn’t believe this was happening. Me and Tim. Tim and me. We were supposed to be together forever. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Not for us. Finally, the tears came and I couldn’t hold them back any longer. They burned as each individual tear slid from my eyes and down my cheeks.
              “It’s not you,” Tim started, but I cut him off before he could feed me the cliché I didn’t need.              “I really loved you,” I whispered to Tim.
              “I know you did.”
              “I’ll come back later for my stuff,” I said.
              “You don’t have to move out, Liz.”
              “Oh, so what, you’re going to leave? Your name’s on the lease,” I