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1. Prompt… In all my twenty-five years I had never been so confused as I was at that moment. Not quite the reaction a man hopes to see in a woman’s face when he professes his love but what is a girl to think when the guy she grew up with and thought she knew suddenly talks about love when he should be…..
   groveling in the dirt for my forgiveness. I never thought that our relationship would come to be where it is at today. Yesterday I received a phone call from my best friend telling me that she saw my boyfriend at the mall. Okay no biggie. So? Well the thing is, my friend had sputtered. She had been on the second floor of the mall with some other friends when she glanced down over the railing to the first floor. There she saw my boyfriend talking to another girl. I didn’t really see an issue with that. My boyfriend and I are both very social and talkative people. He has never given me an issue to not trust him. But my friend insisted this was different. The way he was talking to her, she hesitated. It was quite obvious there was more to what she wasn’t telling me. Then a seed of worry started to sprout. I asked her exactly what she meant. He was leaning in getting closer to her with a big sheepish grin on his face, she said. The girl was playing into it, smiling and laughing, she continued. When the girl had tried to pull back and turned around to walk away , he had grabbed her hand and had pulled her back closer to him. That is when my heart starting sinking. At that point, my friend said, she called out my boyfriends name. He looked up towards where my friend and the other girls were standing looking at him. He had immediately dropped the other girls hand and stepped back away from her. Guilty actions is what that sounds like to me. I chose not to believe it, there must be something to it, I refused to believe what she was implying but in the pit of my stomach I felt something wrong. She then explained that she really didn’t want to call me with this news but she knew she couldn’t let him deceive me. She also told me she had taken a picture before she had called out his name because she knew I would doubt her. I asked her if she could forward me the picture and I thanked her for calling me. I knew the picture would show me something other than what she believed she saw. It just had to. Several minutes after our phone call had ended, the picture came through. I decided to retrieve the photo from my computer instead of the phone. The screen would be bigger and the picture clearer. My world stopped, everything I had believed would be, all my dreams, fell around me like shattered glass. The look on his face as he leaned in on her told me more than my friend could have ever told me. I couldn’t recall the last time I saw him look at me with those eyes. He had come over this morning. At first he was nervous, I didn’t tell him about the phone call though and I acted as if nothing was wrong. I casually asked him what he had done yesterday. I was still trying to deny what I had seen. Playing basketball with the guys, he had said. That is when he starting laying it on thick about how much he loved me. Really? I suddenly turned on him . My face had scrunched up with anger and accusation. He stepped back and looked like a hurt dog. Before he could explain his lie away. I turned on the computer screen. I had the photo pulled up and waiting for this. Who is this? I asked. He opened and shut his mouth several times. He knew the jig was up This love story had come to .. the end.

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