“ You’re a complete…, complete…” I screamed and couldn’t come up with the word I wanted to describe my boyfriend as tears pricked at the corner of my eyes. “Oh don’t be so melodramatic, Melissa,” Jason replied. “It didn’t mean anything to me.” It was the comment that convinced me that the relationship with the man I was staring at was over. “You fucking slept with her,” I raged as my emotions got the better of me. “That means something to me you lying, cheating bastard.” “It’s not like we’re married or anything,” Jason muttered and shook his head. “And at least I could get my arms around her.” The callous comment was the final straw. “Fuck you,” I shouted and stormed out of his apartment. There was no stopping the tears now although that was as much to do with his cruel parting shot as it was to the fact we just broke up. He probably didn’t even think it was over and more than likely expected me to come crawling back to him when I calmed down. I’d had enough of his games though and knew for sure that wasn’t going to happen. The relationship was always volatile and stormy right from the start, but catching him out in a lie that proved his infidelity was too much for me to take. He could go and fuck the skinny bitch he cheated on me with as much as he wanted for all I cared. “Shit,” I cursed when I got out of the building to find it was pouring with rain. With no umbrella for protection, I was soaked by the time I eventually got to my student accommodation and Bella stared at me when I walked through the door of the room we shared. “Couldn’t you have just waited out the storm?” she asked. The water running down from my soaked hair covered the evidence of the tears that were still rolling down my cheeks. “No,” I replied. ‘”I split up with Jason and just wanted to get away from him, so I stormed out of his apartment into the rain and was soaked in seconds. My mind was all over the place, so I just kept walking.” “I’m sorry to hear about that,” Bella said sympathetically then changed her mind. “Well, no I’m not really. He was an immature prick. I’m surprised you needed so long to notice it.” I was unable to stop the sobs that suddenly came out. “Go and have a shower before you catch your death of cold,” Bella said firmly as she got to her feet. “I’ll buy a bottle of wine and you can tell me all about it.” I nodded my head and moved across to the door in the corner of the room to step in the small bathroom. Stripping off my wet clothes took away some of the chill of a bad evening and I tried to relax after switching on the hot water then getting under it. Jason’s nasty last comment kept running around in my head and I looked down at my naked body. I’d always been chubby since my early teens and never particularly worried about being a bigger girl. During my relationship with Jason, I tried to diet to please him because of his nagging about how it would be better if I was slimmer. In the end I liked my food too much and never lost any weight. Suddenly I was glad that was the case. “Fuck trying to be something I’m not just to please a man,” I let out under my breath. They could take me as they found me from now on and if they didn’t like my big, beautiful curves then they could take a running jump. I tilted my face up to let the jets of water pound down on it and the tears were stopped when I got out of the cubicle. I dried myself then secured the towel in place around my chest before leaving the bathroom to find something comfortable to wear. I was only just finished when Bella walked in through the door. “Feeling better?” she asked. “Yeah, a bit,” I replied. She walked to the small closet in the corner of the room and opened it to find a couple of big plastic tumblers. Opening the bottle, she poured the wine then came to sit beside me on the sofa. “Get that down you,” she said