CHAPTER ONE

The entire room suddenly stared towards the door when a nerdy looking young man that would pass for an uncommon denominator in a party of glamor came inside. He was holding in his hand a flower bouquet as he nervously closed the door behind him. His glasses bent as one side had slipped out. Nervously he pushed back his glasses as he glanced around the room to find the lots of pairs of eyes staring at him. He was scanning for one person in particular and had not seen her yet.

"Kevin? Why are you so late." the feminine voice called as she emerged from a doorway and into the sitting area. She walked up to him while he shook nervously.

Dressed in his light brown jeans, a checkered shirt with weird looking sneakers whose shoe laces were undone, Kevin was no match for the beauty approaching him. He totally did not belong here in this world but he would rather affirm himself lucky that Melinda had even been kind enough to consider dating him through these months. He was sweating profusely now.

"Hey babe." he said to her nervously shifting from one leg to another.

"Care to offer up an explanation as to why you are late to my freaking birthday party?" she demanded angrily.

"I'm really sorry. We had lots to do at the laboratory and then I spent time trying to get you something for your birthday." he said and gave a weird smile as he really was scared.

She looked around him and even behind him like she was looking for something.

"Well, where is it then?" she asked.

"Where's what babe?" he asked.

"You said you got me something for my birthday. I want to see it." she said.

"Here." he said, pushing the flower bouquet into her hand. "Happy birthday babe. And oh, I had them put a card in it to show how much I love you. They're your favorite, roses."

He was even nervously pointing at the card in the midst of the flowers while she glared at him. She said nothing for a while and slowly he caught a whiff that he had upset her. He stopped talking now.

"Flowers? You got me flowers Kevin on my birthday. What should I do with them, open a florist shop?" she demanded angrily.

"I thought... I... I'm sorry. I could get your something else if you want." he said.

"Perhaps more flowers!!!" someone shouted from among the guests they were watching them and everyone burst into a fit of laughter.

"You could get me something else? Like you can even afford it? Look there..." she said pointing as she spoke.

"That's Mickey and he got me a Rolex watch for my birthday,"

"Over there is James and he bloody hell got me a really cool channel handbag. Legit one."

"Those trio sitting there are this snazzy girls, they got me the complete Kylie Jenner makeup kit and if you want I could go on and on."

He could no longer take the pain.

"I'm sorry babe. How can I fix this please?" he asked her.

She suddenly let go of the flower and it fell to the ground and then turned to face the rest of the party.

"Who's thirsty for more drinks?" she asked them and everyone said that they sure needed more. The waiter was just coming in to take their orders when she stopped him and took the towel from his shoulders, patting him in the most seductive way possible.

"How about you take a break my dear, Kevin here would serve us the drinks. Right Kevin?" she asked him, batting her eyelashes as her fingers traced lines seductively on the waiter's chest.

Kevin swallowed as he held onto the towel. It was really painful seeing his girlfriend do this with someone random, not to mention a mere waiter. Well, this was certainly what he deserved for not pleasing her like he should. He might as well as do whatever she says before things gets out of hand.

"Su-sure." he said in a near whisper.

"Good." she said and turned to the rest of the party excitedly. They all went back to what they had been doing before he had come, totally forgetting that he existed there. She did not even turn to look at him again.

Kevin made his way around and was about starting his task of humiliation when he tripped on his shoe laces and fell with his face to the ground. He sat up and realized he had hurt his nose but they all simply turned to look at him only for a moment and went on with what they were doing earlier. Clearly, he did not exist in their world. She too; she just stared at him with a disapproving frown and continued with what she was doing. Kevin sat down on the floor and fastened the laces hoping they would not come off again as he started to head for the kitchen area.

"Oh Kevin, could you throw that flower in the trash. It does not look right there at the entrance." she said to him and refocused on her discussion with her friends. 

Sadly, he returned to pick it up and some persons giggled. He felt really bad that it was his own job to trash the flowers he had bought for her himself. He finished up eventually and then started serving the drinks to the guests. They made sport of him as some of them even had complaints up their sleeves as they tried their best to make it all frustrating for him. It was way after two hours later that he was done with his task of servitude. His girlfriend was nowhere to be seen and so he decided to look for her so he could apologize to her properly.

He went into the bedroom area and just as he would happen on her bedroom, he discovered the door was slightly open and he heard giggles. They were sounds from she and someone else that was within the room enclosure too. He walked quickly and found her in the most compromising position with someone. It was the guy that had bought her a Rolex. He laid on the bed while she straddled his waist as she lent over kissing him.

"Vanessa? What are you doing?" Kevin asked feeling broken.

She looked up to see him standing at the doorway.

"What does it look like I'm doing? Give us space please and shut the door behind you." she said and tried to return to what she was doing.

"Give you space? Damnit Vanessa, you're my girlfriend." he said.

She sat up now and came down from the guy onto the ground. Vanessa started walking towards him and he was already hoping she had come back to her senses. However, just when she stood in front of him, Vanessa dealt him a heavy slap across the face.