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What do you need?
Ex boyfriend
His new flame (only if available)
Pasta with meat sauce
Secret ingredient (read below)

Important notice: I changed a few names for obvious reasons!

When a relationship ends, most of us are mourning for a while, but sooner or later, life goes on and we find a way back to our daily routines. A very good friend, Isabelle, is usually just like that. About two years ago, when she was studying in the United States, she fell in love with a guy, whom I will call Jake. They had a wonderful romance, but ultimately, he dumped her because he was of a different cultural background and did not want to raise a family with her (that’s his version). The break up wasn’t very nice, but Isabelle carried on with her life. Still, there would always be a little bit of anger, deep inside her. A secret urge for revenge. Well, recently, an opportunity for payback turned up, and Isabelle was sure she would take it.

Many times, the one who breaks up is determined to secure a certain level of friendship. Maybe to make themselves not look too cruel after all. Jake, the ex-boyfriend and “ra*ist piece of s****” as Isabelle likes to call him, makes no exception. So when he decided to visit Europe with his new girlfriend (again, not his own cultural background) earlier this year, he thought it would be a nice idea to stop by his old flame and say hello. Time had passed by, wounds heal and bad words are forgotten he probably assumed. Boy, he was so wrong! Isabelle agreed after some thinking, but, you might have guessed it, it wasn’t because she is such a generous and forgiving person.

The three of them did a sight seeing tour in a city in Germany, and when it came to dinner Isabelle offered to prepare an Italian specialty… Pasta with meat sauce… Well, you see, she did serve them pasta with meat sauce, but the meat wasn’t bought at a butcher shop. For the main ingredient, Isabelle went to a supermarket, to be precise to the cat food shelves…

I wonder if she will ever tell him why he liked that sauce so much, or that she only became a vegetarian for that specific evening. Or that it was more expensive to buy enough cat food to prepare the dinner then it would have cost to buy the meat at the butcher shop.

Revenge can be bitter sweet, but sometimes, it just smells like ordinary cat food.