Living Situation

I think my roommates are afraid of me. No really. They are afraid of me and it makes me sad.

My best friend and I moved to Rexburg last year just to stay locked in our room all winter contemplating how and when we should escape this town. But after careful thought and prayer, we came to the conclusion that it wasn’t as much the town, as it was our living situation.

Our roommates never talked to us. In fact, if any of them read this, I bet $2 they don’t even remember they lived with me. We were cool people too, that’s why I couldn’t figure out why they distanced themselves from us all the time.

As the semester progressed, I tried my darnedest to get them to like me, like sometimes leaving dishes for them to do so they felt needed, or sitting garbage around the trash can so I wasn’t leaving it on the counter, or even sometimes I would leave food in the fridge for them but they would just let it spoil for months.

I really thought I was doing everything I could to win them over, but for some reason, it wasn’t working.

Currently, this semester seems to be going rather well…only 1 roommate afraid of me, maybe. I think the other one likes Veronica and I, that, or either she’s just not dumb enough to get on our bad side. But I’d like to think she actually likes us. We like her, at least.

The other one doesn’t speak to us. Not a word. All day long, all night, nothing. I hear her grunting in the kitchen sometimes when she doesn’t appreciate the evenly stacked dishes in the sink, but other than that, not a word. But the reason I know she is afraid of us is because she never says anything to us. I also got word that she actually said she doesn’t like us. But her reason was absurd. However, she still hasn’t approached me, so I guess she will have to keep living in fear. Not that we are actually scary, because we aren’t. My best friend even cries in church sometimes, so I know we are good people.

But I am determined to make this apartment a whole, where love is near and we all like each other. It will happen…or else! Ha.