You checked the time, 3:30 am. You laid awake in bed waiting for Jude to come home, He had been coming home late and has been very distant with you for over a month, you put it down to stress from football but it's been going on for far too long. Your train of thought was interrupted by the sound of Jude walking into your shared bedroom.
"You're awake. Sorry I'm late." He said as he disappeared into the bathroom. You felt a pain in your chest because you knew something wasn't right. Jude normally showered you with affection but he barely even looked at you.
"It's fine" you reply quietly, just loud enough for him to hear you. "Where were you?" You ask as Jude re-emerges into the room.
"Just out with the lads." He says getting into bed and placing a kiss on your cheek. "I'm shattered though babe, goodnight." He said as he turned away and went to sleep.
You laid awake for majority of the night, your mind racing and your heart hurting. You finally drift off to sleep.
The next morning you wake up to an empty bed, Jude had probably left for training, you let out a big sigh and pick up your phone, scrolling through it as you usually do.
While you were scrolling you saw videos and pictures of Jude and his friends out in a club, you continued scrolling through the pictures when you see Jude kissing another girl, your heart sank the moment you saw the pictures, confirming all your worst fears.
You put your phone down shut your eyes tightly as you attempted to compose yourself. You pick the phone back up your hands shaking with sadness, you continue to scroll and you see a picture of Jude getting into a car with the same girl from the club. You couldn't help the tears that flooded out of your eyes.
You spent the next hour or so in tears, this was enough time for all the tabloids to get ahold of the pictures and start writing articles about Jude's affair.
Your phone was blowing up with texts and calls from people, it was bad enough that Jude had cheated on you but he was so careless to do it where people would take pictures allowing reports to be made and publicised, embarrassing you even further.
You put your phone down, you clutched your chest as you felt the physical pain along with the emotional pain. You felt your throat tighten up making it hard to breathe, the ache in your heart felt like a stab wound to the chest. You clutched at your throat desperate for air but it felt like you couldn't get enough in.
You felt yourself begin to spiral and you knew you needed to calm down. You shakily reached out for your water on your bedside table, you took a few sips which steadied your breathing. You took deep breaths to calm yourself down because you knew you needed to pack a bag and get out of there as soon as possible.
Once you had calmed down enough you stood up and gathered your essential items, you packed a small bag of clothes and toiletries and you wanted to leave as soon as possible. You pick up your phone seeing all the missed calls and texts from Jude.
You looked away as you couldn't bare to look at his messages. You felt your phone begin to vibrate again, it was Denise, you knew you couldn't ignore her so you picked up the phone.
"Hello" you croaked out, the emotional distress clear in your throat causing you to slap your hand over your mouth.
"Darling, I'm so sorry." You hear Denise say as she sniffles lightly.
Unable to respond your eyes fill with tears again and you begin to sob down the phone. You hear Denise join in and you both stay on the phone crying. You slide down the wall and sit down on the floor as you let out your emotion.
"Do you want to come over." Denise asks through her tears.
"He'll find me there." You force out.
"I won't let him in I swear, he won't do anything to you, I'll make sure of it." Denise responds seriously.
