Chapter 1

Cercei walked away from the door of her room in slow steps, holding onto the stair rails with both of her hands as tears pooled in her eyes.

As she walked down, she could still hear the quiet laughter of her roommate and some of their shared course mates as they discussed about her mockingly. Telling the story of how Cercei's boyfriend had been cheating on her for more than three months, one third of the time they'd spent together. She wiped across her cheeks with the back of her hand, and shook her head. To think these were the same people she ate with sometimes and joked with, yet they were celebrating her misfortune and egging her roommate on to continue with her wicked deeds.

As Cercei walked down the stairs, her expression suddenly changed and she balled her hands into fists as she stomped out of the hostel building and out into the parking space. They had also mentioned that the cheat wanted to break up with her soon, in front of the whole department of Pharmacy, and she'd be damned if she let that happen. She might be a lot of things, but she prided herself on the fact that she could deliver first blows before the other party knew what was going on.

She glanced at her wristwatch and the time was three pm, which meant that her no good boyfriend would surely be on break and most likely hanging around the hostel areas or restautants. She put on her medicated glasses and scanned around where she stood, putting a hand over her eyes to protect them from the harsh rays of the summer sun, but there was no sign of him nor his friends. That left only one place. The cafeteria near their department.

She slowly stalked towards the newly painted building, practicing her words for when she met him. Cercei had never been one to let a guy step all over her, yet she allowed this one to suck out all her energy, her time, and her resources only for him to cheat on her. Had she been too good of a girlfriend?

No, she answered herself. All she had done was play the dutiful, loving and loyal partner to him, helping him out with everything including domestic duties and financial burdens. What more could a guy want? Yet, he still cheated on her with her roommate who was more self centered than anyone else she knew. After everything. She didn't know the part that shocked her the most, the fact that her boyfriend had played a fast one on her, or the fact that her roommate had lied to her face for three months and wasn't even sorry about it.

She sniffed and wiped a stray tear out of her eyes, blinking rapidly to ensure that no one escaped again. There was no way she was going to let him pull another fast one on her again. Finally, she got to the cafeteria and she stared at the bold words written across its signboard before she sighed and went inside.

The first thing that greeted her was the sweet smell of freshly baked bread, and her stomach grumbled loudly in protest, but she ignored it and glanced around the brightly lit space looking for her soon to be ex-boyfriend.

Her eyes eventually caught his lithe form, sitting at the end of the cafeteria with his back turned to the entrance door and she watched for some seconds as he laughed with his best friends, munching away on chips. He didn't deserve to be so carefree and happy, while she felt like shit. Frowning at his bulging head, she loosened her finger hair from the tight scrunchie and ran her hands through it.

Cercei knew she looked sexy when she let her hair down and to accentuate it, she unbuttoned the first two buttons of her blue shirt and smoothed it down, feeling thankful that she paired it with a pencil skirt which showed off her curves. For once, she would make him know what he was missing.

She took in a deep breath and matched forward towards him with a frown.on her face. His friends sitting opposite him noticed her first, and they tapped his arm which caused him to turn and face her. As soon as he did, Cercei added a bounce to her step and watched with just a little bit of satisfaction as his gaze turned from bored to interested. Very interested.

When she got to him, she looked down at him and said, "I'm breaking up with you."

His eyes bulged out for a second before he matched her gaze, "Why?"

She nearly raised her hand to smack his head, but instead she moved forward to him and thinned her lips in a frown. "I'm not longer interested in you, dude. I've met someone else." That was a total lie, but she liked how his eyes left her face and quickly swept across her body before his features turned angry.

Too bad for him. He would never know what being with her felt like, and Cercei was proud of the fact that she had saved her body for their one year anniversary.

"You can't leave me, Cercei," he spat and stood up from his chair abruptly, which caused her to move back awkwardly. "That's not possible. You're lying, there's no one else."

He had shouted out the last part, and heads were beginning to turn their way. She felt like running away form the scene to go and cry, but she held her ground and shrugged. "Fine, don't believe me. I don't care," she said and started to turn away but his next words stopped her.

"Fine then. I've been with your roommate for a while now, so it doesn't matter. Do whatever you want." He sat back down, and Cercei nearly buckled over. So the girl was actually right in saying that they had been sleeping together for some months. She noticed how he said 'her roommate', and didn't even bother to call the name, maybe he didn't even remember it.

She glared at him and bent down to his eye level, watching with the side of her eyes as his friends stared at her for a second before they averted their eyes. Her boyfriend on the other hand openly ogled her chest, and she whispered, "Well, so have I. You think you're the only one who's been cheating, think again." She straightened her body suddenly and turned to the side, where a guy was beginning to walk past them.

In a moment of panic that he didn't believe her words, she grabbed the guy's hand and leaned into him. Cercei noticed that the guy was about to protest, so she pressed her lips to his and kept them there for some seconds. She noted with glee as her boyfriend and his friends matched away in anger away from where she stood. As soon as they were out of sight, she drew back from the mystery man and peered into his face.

It was an unfamiliar face and what hit her first was how polished and well dressed he looked. She quickly scanned through his outfit and made up her mind that he was neither a student nor a professor. The men in her school were either shabby looking or had grey hair and a show of pot bellies. The guy was very attractive, and she shivered slightly and felt ashamed under his sharp gaze. She had basically assaulted the guy, and it was a wonder that the police hadn't been called yer. Instead he stood there with her, his mouth slightly open.

"I'm so sorry for kissing you suddenly," she began, wringing her hands together as she shifted further away from him and out distance between them. "That was so inappropriate of me and I shouldn't have done that, but you see, that was my boyfriend, well ex-boyfriend now…" she trailed off at that, noticing that she was rambling and people were still looking at her .

The man kept looking at her with a blank stare like he hadn't heard her, so she opened her mouth again to apologize for the second time. As soon as she started, the man raised an eyebrow and walked away from her, placing a phone on his ear as he strode out of the cafeteria.

Cercei shook her head and smoothed down her dress again as she walked out as well, whipeing an apology to the lady behind the menu counter for disrupting the easy flow of business. The woman gave her a small smile, and she felt that the woman had certainly enjoyed the show they put on.

By the time she got out of the cafeteria, the man was gone and she hit a hand on her head. That had certainly not been how she had planned it, but she couldn't be happier than the outcome. Breaking up with the chest first. Check. Now it was time to deal with her no good roommate.