Lipstick On Your Collar (AU Earth-1)

Central City, Kansas
14:21 P.M.

Artemis Crock has a day off from teaching at Central City University and decided to do both Wally and her laundry. As she was putting clothes into the washer and seeing something red. The blonde Vietnamese woman sees a red stain on the collar of her boyfriend's t-shirts and dress shirts.

“What the hell? This isn’t mine?” She out loud to herself and grabbed his shirt walking over to their bathroom. Artemis opens the mirror cabinet to see only four lipstick tubes. She opens the second to the left opening it to see if those red matches the shirt. Her gray hues studied both Wally’s shirt and her shade of lipstick, it wasn’t a match. ‘Wally wouldn’t cheat, he would be stupid if he did,’ The blonde Vietnamese woman commented to herself and closed her lipstick tube and mirror. Artemis walks back to the laundry room and puts both her hands on the edge of the washer. Now paranoia came creeping in her mind and held onto his shirt for the question.

Artemis decides to ditch laundry and dressed up to her brown leather jacket, brown shirt, dark wash jeans, and black ankle-high heel boots. Her signature golden locks are now being shoved into a black baseball cap, grabs her black sunglasses, car keys, and leaves the apartment locking the door behind her.

In Downtown Central City,
Central City Police Department

The blonde Vietnamese woman walked a few blocks making sure she wasn’t spotted by anyone by the police department since most of everyone knew that she and Wally were together. While she was walking, a pair of laughter chines in the air. Artemis stops in her tracks as she walks backward. Her ears perked up hearing a familiar deep male laugh, that was no other than her ‘boyfriend’ and another female.  Artemis hid on the opposite brick wall and takes out her phone to her camera in the alleyway. She zooms in, her heart felt like it broke into two. Wally was kissing an ebony-haired woman and seeing it was Linda Park, her so-called best friend. The blonde woman takes photos of the two kissing each other and seeing Linda kissing on her boyfriend’s clean white-collar shirt.

‘You son of a bitch,’ Artemis commented in her mind with tears running down her face and taking three more pictures before turning the other way.

She walked as fast as she can with a hand on her stomach and couldn’t believe Wally, the first boy she opened up to was cheating on her with Linda Park. Artemis had to compose herself by pinching her wrist to calm down and clearing her throat. She still has her phone and calls him.

“Hey, Hi Wally,” “Hey Babe, everything alright?” “Yeah, I figure that I could come to visit you at work. You know for a lunch break that you have…” “I’m working through lunch beautiful; I’ll see you when I get home tonight.” “Yeah, of course. I’ll see you later.”

Artemis hangs up the phone and starts walking towards her car to head back home to pack up her belongings. This is the last thing she needed on top of another thing as well.

Several hours later…

Crock-West Apartment
20:17 P.M.

The blonde Vietnamese woman finished putting the last of her things into her car and going back to the apartment to grab a couple of things. Artemis walked back to the apartment to make sure everything was in place.

The doorknob opens seeing a distraught Wally closing the door behind him and running up to his girlfriend, “Artemis, what’s wrong? What happened? I tried calling and texting you to see if you were okay.” The redheaded Speedster said being sincere.

She just had her arms folded in front of her. Eyes looking away from him with the shirt grasp.

“Artemis, talk to me, please! Who died? Please tell me what’s wrong? I’m freaking out here!” He pleaded with her as he pulls her into his arms.

She pulled away from him and handed him the shirt that had Linda’s lipstick collar, “I can’t believe you would do this…” Artemis starts off as she looks at him with sadness.

“Do what beautiful?” Wally asked being confused. “That’s your lipstick Art, it is.” He said lying to her.

“YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH MY SO-CALLED BEST FRIEND LINA PARK! I CAN’T BELIEVE THE TWO OF YOU!” The blonde Vietnamese woman yelled being pissed off for words and showing him the photos of the two kissings.

The redheaded Speedster was lost, stunned for words as he was being caught red-handed of cheating on Artemis.

“Since your busy with Linda, let her be your girlfriend from now on. Oh, by the way, I found out that I’m pregnant. We won’t be together. Goodbye Wallace,” She bid farewell to him by pulling his tie towards him giving Wally one last passionate kiss, and pulling away giving her key to him. Artemis grabs her purse and leaves the apartment she once shared with him.

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