My roommate that is.
She might be dead.
I only say this because I haven’t seen her since Friday night.
I’m not even sure she still lives with me.
If it weren’t for a room full of her stuff, I wouldn’t know I had a roommate at all.
And it’s been like this pretty much since she moved in.
The girl goes to classes, works 2 jobs, and has a boyfriend who I can only assume she has been spending the night with at least 5 nights a week.
She doesn’t cook, so there are never messes in the kitchen. In fact, from what I can tell – she doesn’t eat at all. I cleared an entire pantry area out for her, but there is still not an ounce of food in the house that has belonged to her.
She is as unobtrusive as you could possibly imagine.
Basically, the perfect roommate.
Except, since she moved in almost a month ago, I’ve only seen her for like 10 minutes.
Total.
And as much as I love having my peace and quiet, it’s also a little weird.
I mean, do I smell?
I think I’ve figured out what’s going on though. New roommate was living with her boyfriend before she moved in with me. They’ve been together for 3 years, and as far as I could tell – had no real intentions of breaking up. So I couldn’t figure out why the heck she was moving out in the first place. Especially since she only has 2 more months before the semester is over and she is going home for the summer. And now that she is still spending so much time over there, I really don’t understand.
The only thing I can figure, is that her parents didn’t like her living with the boyfriend. Her dad pays her rent to me, and so I can’t help but think that he had something to do with the move.
Which really, I’m totally OK with, because like I said – she is the perfect roommate.
Assuming of course that she isn’t dead.
Because that would definitely not be good.
I figure I’ll give her another day or two, and then I’ll shoot her a text to see if she’s still alive.
I don’t want it to seem like I’m keeping tabs on her or anything. She’s 20 years old, and probably has better things to do than to hang out with her old lady roommate.
When I was 20 years old, I had a fast and exciting life too.
But then again, if ever I would have disappeared for 5 days in a row, it probably wouldn’t have been a good sign.
The truth is – I kind of miss her. Even though she’s never here. Even though I don't really know her at all.
I kind of wish she was hanging out from time to time.
Of course, if she were here more, I would probably wish that she wasn’t.
Because I'm complicated like that.
So for now, I’m going to enjoy my quiet home and be grateful for the extra money that really seems wholly unearned.
She really is the perfect roommate.
Let’s just hope that she isn’t dead.
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