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No dramatic slap.
I got into my car. My hands shook so hard it took me three tries to get the key into the ignition.
I drove.
My phone buzzed nonstop. Daniel. Kara. Mom.
I called my best friend, Hannah.
I ended up in a drugstore parking lot, staring at the windshield, breathing in these short, panicked bursts.
She picked up on the first ring.
“I caught Daniel,” I said. “With Kara. In our bed.”
She was silent for half a second.
Then she said very calmly, “Text me where you are. Don’t move.”
Twenty minutes later, she slid into the passenger seat.
“Okay,” she said. “Tell me exactly what you saw.”
By the time I was done, she looked like she wanted to burn my house down herself.
“You want me to tell him to get lost?”
“You’re not going back there tonight,” she said.
“I have nowhere else,” I whispered.
“You have my guest room,” she said. “Let’s go.”
Of course, Daniel showed up.
Hannah and I were on her couch when there was a knock like the police at the door.