The year is 2011, Rich is living in Oxford with his family. He has a small network of friends, goes to pub quizzes each week and is pretty much leading a dull life, he is on a few dating sites, Plenty of Fish and Match.Com being the main ones.
He would go on the odd date here and there, but ultimately was not very successful with women, he did find a play partner who he was with for a few months...but is was complicated, she had a main boyfriend and Rich...well he never saw a future with this girl because of that, eventually they drifted apart.
He was out with friends one evening, looking on his phone...he messaged this girl Claire on Match.com...bizarrely she seemed to message him at the same time, their messages were both little introductions...it seemed fated, and such a crazy coincidence that they would both send these messages almost simultaneously...
They met up and seemed to get on, Rich happily bought her drinks, she was an attractive blonde with medium length hair and a rather slim figure, she had an amazing arse!
However things seemed to go bad fairly early on...for one thing, Rich couldn't eat in front of her, he had this very bad feeling in his gut, then she revealed she had tried to kill an ex-boyfriend, that was a good tell for what would happen...
She would get drunk and would yell at him, even becoming physically abusive, he felt controlled by her, but he didn't try to end things...
One night she destroyed a calendar in his room that featured Megan Fox, she was angry that he would own something like this, she ripped it to shreds.
However, when they finally did sleep together, she was amazing in bed, using her hands alone she could make him cum in moments...something no other girl had been that successful with...and God that ass...it was like a sculptors work of art!
There came a time for him to introduce her to some friends, he took her to a beer festival with a few, she seemed to get along with them...but afterwards began telling Rich who they could and couldn't hang out with...now Rich wasn't about to abandon any friends of his, but he humoured her on this point, hoping things would change.
Another meeting with friends took place, this time it was at his Friend Andy's house, the night started well, they played games and got along, Rich would sneak outside to have a smoke with his friend Stewart...and they were smoking more than just cigarettes
Rich was in fact quite a weed smoker back then, something he hid from his family and from Claire.
However some other stuff happened that night, it turned out that while Rich was outside Claire started insulting Andy's house, who he lived in with his wife Dawn.
Not only that, but Claire was quite dismissive to his friend Stewart.
Rich knew, that if he kept this girl in his life...he would lose his friends, already he was afraid of her temper...but now she had the capacity to isolate him.
The next day they met for a walk, she was scouting out a new house to move to, at the end of the date he ended things.
He gave her a speech about how she didn't seem to like him, hated all of his interests, and how she was rude to his friends and how they couldn't be together...
They never spoke again...
You may ask, well that's as bad as things could get right?
Sadly you would be wrong...a few months later Rich would meet a girl called Laura