Blog 6

Long Essay 2 Draft

            I had always dreamed of meeting the guy that I would spend the rest of my life with. I would meet him, we would have a whirlwind romance, fall madly in love, get married, and have a family. However, it didn’t happen like that. Not even one bit. My “whirlwind romance”? A drunk Halloween night partying at Temple University in which I don’t remember meeting my boyfriend, or giving him my number, or telling him to call me.

            We had so many plans, my best friend Jackie and I. We had graduated from community college together and were starting our next journey in life. This meant being roommates at Kean University. The first two month were awesome. We had been having the time of our lives, as well as both doing very well in school. However, around the middle of October I had met a group of girls from class. We began hanging out with them all the time. I soon realized that I did not get along with them as well as Jackie did. They always wanted to go out partying, whereas I was more interested on doing well in school. This had caused some distance between Jackie and I. However, we had a talk that week about how we would always be best friends and just because we had other friends nothing would change. This is why what happened next is something I never could have imagined.      

            I was sitting in class when I got a text from Jackie saying she needed to tell me something. “What’s up?” I asked her. She told me that she felt as though living together had ruined our friendship. She also told me that she had moved her stuff out of our room and that she was going to be living with the other girls from now on. I was dumfounded. I never imagined that she would do something like that. However, I understood why she could have felt the way she did. When I got back to the room I knew I would find an empty side. However, I never imagined that I would find half of MY stuff gone also. This infuriated me. I texted her asking where my stuff was. She replied, “Oops must have accidentally taken it.” I instantaneously knew that she had done this to get a rise out of me. I calmly asked her to return my stuff. I also said that I was incredibly upset and did not want to speak to her again for a while.

            The next day I was not going to be home. So I asked my suitemate to let Jackie in so that she could return my stuff. She said it was no problem. Now, my suitemate and I had never really been friends. She was a huge pot head who liked to get high and go to parties till all hours of the night. I didn't bother her and she didn't bother me, we just stayed out of each other’s way. However, she and Jackie had hated each other. They had an altercation the day we moved in and had never gotten along ever since. When I returned home that day I was surprised to see her moving her stuff out as well. Just then I got a call from my Residence Hall Director asking me to come down to his office. As I did this I was completely confused about was going on. He brought me into his office and shut the door. He then told me that Jackie had told my suitemate I was spreading rumors about her and that I was making people hate her. I instantly started crying. He said he knew that one of this was true but that he had to respect their wishes to be put in different rooms. I could not figure out why Jackie had made up something like that? Was it because I told her I didn't want to speak to her for a while? Whatever the reason, I burst out into tears. My RHD then told me that he made the girls sign no contract orders so that they would not be allowed to have any contact with me and that if they did try to contact me they would be reported to the dean of residence life. I was so confused how my whole world had changed so much in the matter of two days. All the plans that I had and that Jackie and I had made together were completely destroyed.

 I didn't think that there was anyway the week could get any possible worse. But it did, the moment I remembered it was Halloween that weekend and that I was supposed to be going to party with my ex best friend. However, my  other friend, Luke, had other plans for us. He sent me a text that he was coming over. When he got there, he was very surprised by what he saw. The room that was once so cluttered and full was now empty. The bed that had housed ten blankets at a time was completely bare down to the mattress and frame. When Luke had gotten over his initial shock he decided it was time to fill me in on what the weekend’s plan was going to be. His plan? Let’s go to Temple University for Halloween. All of his friends from home went there so we had a place to stay and Temple was known for their insane parties. Due to recent events I didn't have any other plans, so I figured, why not?