As I woke up from my bed this morning I checked my phone and realized that I had five missed calls from my dad last night. And I noticed the splitting headache that I have from the hangover.

'Shit. He's gonna be pissed.'

I checked the time and saw that it was already 1 PM. I probably shouldn't have drunk an entire bottle of vodka by myself last night. But what else could I do? 

Elise broke up with me.

It was out of the blue. I thought things were going great. We've been in a relationship for eight months already. We were childhood friends and I've had a crush on her since sophomore year in high school, when she started to look smoking hot.

She wouldn't tell me the reason why she broke up with me. But I had my suspicious that I was either getting cucked or she just really didn't like me anymore.

I took off my clothes and went into take a cold shower. 

I shivered as the icy cold water hit my skin and it jolted me awake from my stupor. 

'I have three more months of school left before I graduate. Three more months of seeing Elise in all of my classes before I never see her again and I move on with my life and work as a lawyer... where I'll probably see her everyday also, because she's going to be working in the same firm as I am... shit...'

I finished the shower and got cleaned up and began to cook some breakfast. I decided to go with something greasy so I cooked a lot of bacon and eggs and decided to give my dad a call.

[Hello?]

"Hey dad. Sorry I missed your calls, I just woke up and have a killer hangover right now."

[Oh, it's not that big of a deal, one of my guys got caught laundering some 'important goods' and he's gonna be in court next week. I have a couple lawyers that are handling the case and I managed to convince them to have you as an assistant so that you get some experience for your job, if you're interested.]

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"Oh, sure, that doesn't sound too bad."

My dad's point of view is that you can never have too many lawyers. And being in his type of business, he needs lots of good lawyers. So he was quite happy that I decided to get a law degree, which I didn't really mind, because law was quite interesting in my opinion.

[Why do you have a hangover? You never drink.]

"Elise broke up with me."

[What? What happened? Do you want me to talk to her father? Your uncle Frank and I are good friends. We expected you guys to get married!]

Uncle Frank isn't actually my uncle. He's just a really close family friend that help out with the 'business' and is a trusted aide for my dad who's been working for him for years now.

"No! Don't worry about it... I'll figure it out."

[Are you sure? Just call me if you need anything.]

"Kay dad. Bye. Love you."

[Love you too kiddo. Study hard. You're almost there.]

We hung up and I began to eat my breakfast.

I tried really hard not to think about Elise but I couldn't help it. My stupid mind kept on going back to her and my heart ached as I recalled how she broke up with me. 

As I finished eating breakfast I got a text from my best friend Jonathan, who I call Jonny. 

[Yo dude, I saw Elise with this good-looking douche bag. Wtf is going on?]

[Where is she?]

I replied back. 

My mind was filled with nothing but burning anger.

'She broke up with me? For some other guy?'

[I saw her just now at the cafe and she seemed to be having a good time laughing with the dude.]

I rushed and just put jeans and a shirt on and ran out my apartment and rushed over to the cafe where Elise and i always hung out and had mini coffee dates.

It was a short one minute run as I ran as fast as I could.

And to my disbelieving eyes, I saw Elise laughing happily with a tall, blonde, more muscular, guy than me who had one of those beards that said 'Oh look I forgot to shave today and I still look hot.'

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not that bad looking in the looks department. I'm six foot tall and work out frequently and have some nice abs if I do say so myself but this guy kind of looked like he was either on steroids or a gym nut.

How could she do this to me? 

She literally broke up with me last night and the next day she's flirting with some other guy? 

I walked into the cafe and walked toward their table.

Elise saw me and gave me a startled look.

"James! What are you doing here?"

*Smack*

I punched the random dude that was chatting with Elise with all of my strength and he fell off the chair to the ground.

"James! What are you doing? That's my cousin!"

"..."

Oh.