A quiet night in

The image below is from Aleksandar Nakic@Getty Images.
For the visually challenged writer, the photo shows a young woman lying on her stomach and facing the foot of her bed. She’s eating something with chopsticks and appears to be engrossed in watching something on television.

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He’d cancelled again but she was actually relieved as she was going to kick him into touch anyway.

This evening she was going to have a girly night in, long hot soak in the tub with lashings of bubbles and scented candles, relaxing music, a good book, then pluck the eyebrows, wax her legs and lounge around in PJs watching her favourite video with a take out.

Sprawled on her bed, she raised the chopsticks towards her mouth and stopped.
The noodles dropped onto the plate which then fell on the floor as she scrambled off the bed to look closer at the screen.
She could not believe what she was seeing.
This was HER bedroom, and that was HER boyfriend on HER bed, but it certainly wasn’t her under the sheets, but the blonde bimbo from upstairs.
The lying scumbag! Little things began to fall into place and she was so glad she’d held off on him moving in. Well, the BB could have him.

Having lost her appetite, she threw her dinner in the bin and cleared up the mess.
It wasn’t what was on the screen that had upset her, but the fact that they’d taped over her copy of Titanic!

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