The Quarterback's Roommate
Promise not to break anything.
The RA had taken one look at our rings, our graying temples, the laugh lines that hadn’t been there ten years ago, and just sighed, “Twenty minutes. Don’t break anything. And don’t scare the freshmen.”
We closed the door.
Locked it.
The dorm room smelled exactly the same stale carpet, faint bleach from last summer’s cleaning, the stubborn undercurrent of teenage boy sweat that never quite leaves cinder-block walls no matter how many air fresheners get sprayed. The current occupants were out probably at the dining hall or the library and the space looked both eerily familiar and completely foreign. New posters on the walls. Different bedding. A mini-fridge hummi