"You are just fucking stupid, you know that? You really are the dumbest human being that I have ever met. You live in my apartment and you think you have rights to your own fuckin' privacy and thoughts. No! You do what I say when I say to do it! Got it?"
This wasn't the first time that Ben Gardener had heard this and, unfortunately, probably wouldn't be the last time that he heard it if her stuck around. He had thought about leaving, but this was starting to be the last straw... But, he had no where to go. He couldn't just leave... Or could he?
Ben stood up from his seat as he was getting berated by his girlfriend, Brittany, "I think we might need to let emotions calm before we talk anymore."
As he would try to shuffle around her, she would push him in his chest. Being 6'2", 200 pounds, it really didn't register as he continued to try and get around her, but when she would smack him across his cheek, that would be the motion that set our story into motion.
"You hit me..." Ben would say, almost a shocked and appalled expression crossing his face, "I am leaving, Brittany..."
Brittany would step forward, smacking him again, "Yeah, go ahead and leave big man! Don't come back either, you little bitch..."
Ben would scoot around her and hastily move to the door of the apartment. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, he would walk as quickly as he could out the door and down to the street from the apartment complex. The moment playing over a thousand times in his head. She had never gotten physical with him before, never ever... He walked for about five or six blocks before he realized the cold winter air was nipping at his unclothed body. He couldn't go back now... He couldn't...
The University campus was something that was very compact, but the time he was going through the campus, he realized he was now in the residential area of the campus.