Despicable Roommate

I was the type of person who never set an alarm unless they had something really urgent to do the next day. I always woke up naturally and was a little bit too happy when I woke up at seven. It was a Monday, so I didn’t waste any more time in bed but jumped out of bed as soon as I got out of the semi-conscious state of sleep.

My first lecture that day was at ten a. m. but I had many things to do. I had not cleaned the room over the weekend so it was the first thing I did after waking up. I started with my bedroom, then living room and finished with the kitchen. I didn’t dare go to Alec’s room.

Was he even back? I remembered that I had slept before he came so I knocked his door to know if he was in. No one answered so I tried the door handle, it turned out that he wasn’t back.

And I didn’t have his number. Seriously? What type of roommate was I? What if something bad had happened to him? I didn’t know any of his friends. I was really worried but I’d think of that later since I was running out of time. Besides, I wasn’t his baby sitter or anything. We were both adults.

After cleaning and organizing everywhere, I went to the bathroom and got ready for the new day, or should I say new week since it was a Monday. Monday is the worst day of the week.

By 9:30, I was locking the main door of the apartment and moving out. Campus wasn’t very far so I had to walk. I hadn’t yet thought of repairing my car. Walking was more fun, anyways.

***

Walking out of the lecture hall with Carrie, a course mate of mine I spotted a person I never wanted to see. There she was, standing with Kari who’d just gotten out of the same room as I.

Correction: I didn’t want to see both of them.

They’d forgotten that I existed. Jen took a course different from Kari and I.

“Goodbye Lynn,” Carrie said as she rushed towards her boyfriend. I wondered how they managed. Dating a person who’s with you in the same class didn’t sound appealing to me. I’d never done such so I thought it was weird and hard. I had always dated only guys in classes above me or those from different schools.

I realized I was still in the same position that Carrie had left me when I snapped out of my thoughts. To make it worse, I was staring right at her and her boyfriend and so they were giving me questioning looks. I awkwardly turned away only to see my ex-best friends laughing so hard. I missed being with them so much. They always made me happy even in my saddest moments.

They were near the pavement so I had to pass by them. I walked with my head high looking very confident yet I wasn’t. I realized I had to greet them no matter what had happened between us.

“Hello,” I forced a smile and resumed my walk.

“LYNN!” Kari rushed to hug me. Why hadn’t she thought about me before? She didn’t even sit with me that day yet we’d always been sitting together. What a nice best friend.

“I MISSED YOU SO MUCH,” she screamed holding me tight. Damn, could she be more annoying? I felt like I hated her so much, and I couldn’t understand myself.

“Let go,” I said as calmly as I could.

“What’s wrong with you, today?” She asked. “What’s the problem?”

You’re the problem, I wanted to say but I couldn’t hurt her feelings just like that. I just looked at her.

“Nothing,” I said coolly casting a glance at the worried looking Jen. She was the one who used to love me more.

“I’m sorry,” Jen said as if by looking at her, I’d been asking her to speak.

I looked at her. Kari was busy texting on her phone. Rude. I even wondered why she stopped me in the first place.

“Oh my gosh Ron!” She smiled as she typed in a speed I’d never seen her use before. There was a wide grin on her face. She was really in love. I turned and Jen was looking at me like she was about to cry.

I linked my arm with hers and we moved away from Kari who kept on telling us to wait. I had just realized that the only one I could lean on was Jen. Kari loved her boyfriend more and I really hated him. I didn’t trust him, he was a wrong guy.

In the end we found where to sit and since Kari neither appeared nor communicated to us, I knew she was going to see Ron. I guess they even had sex a thousand times daily considering that Ron could be as horny as his cousin, Alec.

After two hours, Jen and I had settled our differences. There was nothing that could ever come between us again. We’d be best friends forever. Jen had a class at two so I let her go and walked home since I was free.

I loved walking because it did miracles to me. It cleared my mind even in my most stressful moments. It was amazing to walk around listening to music and looking at the people around me. I always tried to imagine what was running in their minds and that brought some very interesting ideas to my head. Another reason was that I never walked without candy in my bag. Eating sweets while walking is great, it’s like the sweets just become tastier.

After a long walk, I reached my destination. When I reached the second floor landing, I rested, leaning on the railings. I was very tired but when I saw Ross entering the building, all the exhaustion vanished causing me to rush to my room.

I don’t know why I was surprised to find Alec making out with a girl on the couch.

This time I didn’t say anything but walked into my room to patiently wait for the girl to go.

I was going to talk to Alec.

He was already my ex-friend. I thought we had agreed that making out was to be exclusively done in the bedrooms, not the living room.