It's 7 am and you are listening to Channel 97! What's up on this beautiful and sunny mor…

Yeah sure, the sunny morning was trickling against the window in heavy drops when I slammed down on my alarm clock. The weather was perfectly reflecting my mood. I sighed heavily. Why on earth did I have to get up this early, since I would not have to head to work until the late afternoon? Max… My dickhead of an ex-boyfriend was going to show up around 8 am to pick up his stuff. Not that the idiot couldn't have done that while I was out of town, since he had the bright idea of fucking my neighbour.

There was nothing to be done about it. I climbed out of bed reluctantly. Today there was no one whacking their tale for my dog had a sleepover at my colleagues' house. I didn't want to have him around together with Max, just not to tempt him into biting my ex. On second thoughts… No!

I quickly brushed my teeth and threw on a pair of old pants and a worn out shirt. It didn't take me long to throw all of his clothes from the closet onto a forming pile on the floor. I didn't care if his dress shirts got messed or his perfect white socks got dirty in the process. How did I manage to endure this for so long?

It was not like we didn't have good times. We had those. In the beginning. Two years ago. I had suspected him cheating for quite some time, but was not able to prove it. I found out by mere coincidence. I just got home from my seminar lecture in Seattle two hours early (yeah, like in those stupid movies). And now guess who just walked out of my neighbours' apartment to get the newspaper, covered only by a towel? I fought throwing up just thinking about it.

"Honey?! I can explain that! The shower was…" I stared at him in utter disbelief after recovering from the first shock.

"The shower was broken? Did you want to tell me that? The. Shower. Was. Broken? You could not have come up with something better? You're screwing my neighbour and try to sell me our shower was broken?! You lying bastard!"

I changed the locks the same day. I cast a look to the clock and my phone told me that the idiot would have to pick up his stuff from the pavement in a few minutes. 7:58 and no cheating ex-boyfriend to be seen. At least it stopped raining, so I opened the window. Maybe it would be a good day after all. Five – four – three – two – one. Time's up asshole.

So his dress shirts started flying out through the open window, it was such a satisfying feeling. It took not much more than ten minutes and nearly all of his clothes were gone. I walked over to the window for the last time when I heard a car stopping with screeching tires.

"Are you insane?" The last pieces of cloth were followed by my response. "I said 8 am not 8:15!" He looked up to me with disbelief.

"You have completely lost it! I hope you bitch didn't dare to touch my notebook or I…" I just had enough of it. With a smug grin I was holding up the device.

"Oh you mean this useless paperweight, honey?" My voice was dripping with poison. Max turned white in an instance.

"I dare you. I promise I'll come for you if you drop it!"

"Whoops!" I watched the notebook fall down onto the pavement.

A passer-by with brown hair and a base cap managed to dodge the notebook just in time to not get bruised by it.

"I'm going to kill you, you bitch! I'll beat the shit…" I don't recall who was more surprised and shocked when the man suddenly grabbed Max by the throat and pushed him up against a lamp post. I did not understand everything he said for my apartment was located on the third storey. What I understood was something about honour and that the cops would show up any minute.

For a second he looked up at me, those were the most amazing blue eyes I had ever seen. Without another word he just vanished.

Back then I had no idea that I would see the stranger again very soon. Max threw his stuff and the broken notebook into his car, all the while never stopping cursing. At 11 am he was finally gone.

I had more than another five hours of time to kill before I had to head to work. Welcome to a nurses' life.

What to do with the early day? I could always visit my brother at the office. Some distraction would be nice.

Next issue, what to wear? Finally I decided it would be black pants, my military boots and my favourite but old AC/DC shirt. Good to go.