My Roommate & I
After an exhausting night at the hospital watching the unshakable devotion of Drey’s parents as they hovered over him with visible anguish, I felt something in me quietly fracture.
I slipped away to the restroom and allowed myself a rare moment of weakness, weeping in silence where no one could witness it.
When I finally left for home, my mind felt distant and clouded, as though I had momentarily forgotten the existence of my arrogant, persistently intrusive, and unsettlingly obsessed roommate.
Only when I stepped into the apartment did it hit me again , this wasn’t an escape.
I walked through the door still smelling like antiseptic and hospital sheets, my head pounding from the whole mess w