Chapter 1:

This is what it must feel like to be in prison. Every day the officers of 15th division worked on putting people behind bars, making the streets safe for the community but now it felt like work was now fully being taken home.

These thoughts ran through Andy's head as she slowly packed as many contents as she could into the backpack and duffel bag lying on the double bed. 'Our bed' thought Andy as she stuffed in another t-shirt and pair of jeans, she had never been one to share a bed with a man carefully slipping out before they woke up in the morning but that all changed with Luke. She has taken the plunge, gone against every instinct in her body telling her to run the other direction and moved in with him telling herself he was a good guy different from the guys she had dated in the past he was safe.

'Safe' she scoffs, the noise echoing in the darkening room.

Yeah he was safe alright. He safely broke the little bit of her heart she had given him.

'Trust you gut' that's what Sam said. Well she should have listened to it when she watched them through the window in the viewing room chatting happily like it was a normal day, chatting like old friends forgetting your girlfriend had got shot in the vest that day.

So now she was that girl the girl who would get the pitying looks from her co-workers and even sadder looks from her friends. From less than a day she had gone from planning a wedding to planning where she would now live.

He cheated on her plain and simple. He had cheated with his ex no less a fellow detective who she now had to work with day after day. A detective who treated her like a stupid idiot and gave bitchy comments like it was her at fault. Whatever happened to girl code as in doesn't sleep with somebody else's fiancée. Obviously it didn't exist in Jo's world.

Well to hell with that pulling the zip closed on both her bags she slowly walked down stairs looking around for any stuff she could still take with her in one trip.

No way was she willing to come back here if she had to all she kept thinking was maybe it wasn't a one night stand it could have easily been more than once, it could easily have been here and looking around the house that she shared with Luke it would be a constant reminder of his betrayal.

Walking the remainder of the steps to the front door she was glad she could grab her stuff without having to talk to Luke. That would eventually come but today she was just emotionally exhausted.

The keys had been left on the counter and she would talk about removing the rest of her things but now all she need was a friend. Silently thanking Traci for lending her car to her without asking question Andy threw her bags in the backseat and slipped in behind the wheel heading off to the penny to find her best friend.

It felt like a prison living in that house but now was her time to escape, Luke had given her a way out and while she wiped the tears from her eyes pulling out into the road the house getting smaller in the wing mirror she knew she was going to take it.