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Part 3:

When my birthday came around, the surprise was great; she’d booked a fancy venue with some mixology sessions going on, a poker table, a balcony come cigar lounge (i’m not a smoker, but who doesn’t like the occasional cigar?), good food, all our friends and family, all my favourite things. I was genuinely inpressed, she’d out done herself.
I was having a great time, until i saw Ellie and Josh having what looked like a heated conversation across the room. I tried to get over there, but was blocked by another of our friends (let’s go with ‘Becky’). The way she tried to get me to talk was really obviously clumsy, she asked really random small talky questions. I just tried to brush her off and get to Ellie, but she started to get a bit more forceful, even grabbing my arm.
When i asked her what she was doing, she sort of gave the game away by trying to make it seem ordinary for Ellie and Josh to be chatting so much. When i pressed her on it, she didn’t say anything specific, but it was obvious.

I tried to enjoy the rest of my night. By the time Becky fucked off, Josh had disappeared and Ellie was chatting happily to someone else and shot me a happy grin and wave across the room. I didnt want to cause a scene, and part of me didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but my brain raved the rest of the night.
When we got back to my flat (she’d sort of almost moved in, basically, by that point) i confronted her over it, and all her attempts at explaining it were bollocks. Nothing made sense, except for the stufff that just made it worse, like she’d tried to use half-truths and just picked all the wrong bits. Eventually i told her it was time for the truth, or she could leave right then.

As it turned out, she’d lost her virginity to Josh a little while before her birthday. She hadn’t been drunk, he hadn’t forced himself on her, it “just happened” one night when all the friends had been at a house party but i’d had to work.
They’d then carried on a bit behind the scenes, all that ‘practice’ she’d been having. That’s why he’d sent that message, he knew exactly what she’d surprised me with, because he’d gotten the same thing more than a few times beforehand.
I asked about Josh’s birthday, because bits and pieces were falling in to place. They’d planned the whole thing because he wanted to spend the night with her as a “birthday present”. She tried to make it sound like she hadn’t been as into it, and he persuaded or guilted her, but… come on…

We broke up immediately. On the spot. She didn’t want to, but, i was done. If it’d been a one off, or a mistake, or over for a good while and she was really remorseful now, i might have stuck with it, i really loved her, but it had been going on for nearly a year, all in secret, the whole time, and her ‘sorries’ felt genuine, but.. tainted? Like, don’t be sorry, just don’t DO IT. They’d been together two nights earlier, while i’d been working at the bar.

They didn’t get together in the end. I was still friends with Maria (we hooked up a few times again a while after all of this actually, but still nothing serious) and she told me that they sort of still saw each other for a little bit until Ellie called it off; felt really guilty about the whole thing and just needed to cut it out of her life. We never really hung out properly again, though we still had the same circles of friends and would see each other across a bar or something from time to time, nod genially. We did hook up a couple of times a few years later, maybe nearly looked like we were gonna get back together, but we’d both changed in the meantime, so it didn’t feel right.
I saw Josh once more, about a month after the break up. Remember i said i grew up on combat sports? Well, he didn’t say anything directly to me about Ellie or that whole situation or anything, but was mouthing off in general about the same sort of thing, and i just saw red. Not my finest or proudest moment, had sore knuckles for a while (i didn’t control the punch very well) and he had two black eyes for several weeks.

This was fun, sort of cathartic, a bit less “just porny” style description than i’d originally intended it to be… might do that later though. Plenty of other stories i want to distribute as well anyway.
Thanks for reading!

NSFW: yes

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