MidReal Story

Cuddles with My Hot Roommate

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Scenario:Tina and I have lived together in the same dorm room for almost a year. We don't get along very well due to Tina's very complex character. She never watches her words, calls me names, and finds ways to quarrel with me over everything. It’s 2 a.m. now, hours since our last fight. I’m lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, but insomnia keeps me awake. Suddenly, an awkward but quite loud knock is heard on the door. Here the door opens a little and the top of Tina's head appears from there. "Are you sleeping? No? I knew you weren't sleeping." She walks into the room, closing the door behind her, her pillow in her hands, her hair disheveled as if she had been wrestling with someone in the bed. "Look... Just don't laugh, okay, idiot. But can I sleep here tonight? I... I just can't. I need company, maybe a little cuddle, I feel calmer this way." Her face is slightly red, she looks at me with a calm and tired face. "Just don't think that I'm a small and helpless girl, got it, nerd?" She shifts awkwardly from one foot to the other and then adds "Well then...can I?"

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Tina and I have lived together in the same dorm room for almost a year. We don't get along very well due to Tina's very complex character. She never watches her words, calls me names, and finds ways to quarrel with me over everything. It’s 2 a.m. now, hours since our last fight. I’m lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, but insomnia keeps me awake. Suddenly, an awkward but quite loud knock is heard on the door. Here the door opens a little and the top of Tina's head appears from there. "Are you sleeping? No? I knew you weren't sleeping." She walks into the room, closing the door behind her, her pillow in her hands, her hair disheveled as if she had been wrestling with someone in the bed. "Look... Just don't laugh, okay, idiot. But can I sleep here tonight? I... I just can't. I need company, maybe a little cuddle, I feel calmer this way." Her face is slightly red, she looks at me with a calm and tired face. "Just don't think that I'm a small and helpless girl, got it, nerd?" She shifts awkwardly from one foot to the other and then adds "Well then...can I?"

Chanel Windsor

college student, roommate to Tina, average height with curly brown hair, introverted and analytical

Neil Jensen

mutual friend of Chanel and Tina, tall with glasses and a friendly smile

Tina Rodriguez

college student, roommate to Chanel, petite with straight black hair, outspoken and complex

I hated my roommate.

There, I said it.

The feeling of hatred was foreign and uncomfortable to me.

I didn’t like to hate anyone or anything.

But I could no longer deny my feelings toward Tina Rodriguez, my college roommate for the past two years.

We needed to find a new place to live come fall, and I wanted out of our current living arrangements.

I didn’t want to deal with Tina and all her drama anymore.

I didn’t want to come home every night to fear what I’d find, but mostly I didn’t want to be held responsible for what she did when she snuck a guy into our room.

It wasn’t the first time, and I knew it wouldn’t be the last.

We were complete opposites in every way.

I had curly brown hair while she had straight black hair.

I was average height, and she was petite.

I was shy and quiet, and she was outgoing and loud.

She was a total flirt and loved to party, while I was a bookworm and preferred to stay in.

I was a senior majoring in accounting, while she was a junior majoring in dance.

We were complete opposites, and I knew it would be easy to find someone else to live with.

I just needed to convince my parents that I needed to move out of the dorms.

They thought Tina and I got along great, but that was far from the truth.

We fought all the time, and she often called me names.

The worst part was that she never watched what she said or did.

She never thought about how her words or actions affected anyone else.

She was a selfish bitch, and I wanted nothing more than to get away from her. I had been looking for a new place for weeks, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.

I couldn’t afford to live on my own, so I needed to find someone who wanted a roommate.

It also had to be somewhere on campus because I didn’t have a car.

I had been checking the school’s website every day for new listings, but there hadn’t been anything good yet.

I had also been checking Craigslist every day, but there wasn’t anything good there either.

I had been looking for weeks now, and I was starting to lose hope.

Maybe I would have to live off campus after all.

The sound of a knock at our door pulled me from my thoughts.

I looked over at the clock on my nightstand and saw that it was two in the morning.

Who could that be?

I sat up in bed and waited for another knock. The door opened a little, and the top of Tina’s head appeared from there.

"Are you sleeping? No? I knew you weren’t sleeping."

She walked into the room, closing the door behind her, her pillow in her hands, her hair disheveled as if she had been wrestling with someone in the bed.

Her eyes were red like she had been crying or drinking too much.

She stood by the door awkwardly for a few minutes before speaking again.

"Look... Just don’t laugh, okay, idiot. But can I sleep here tonight? I... I just can’t. I need company, maybe a little cuddle, I feel calmer this way."

I stared at her in the dim light, trying to process what she was saying.

She looked smaller than usual, standing there clutching her pillow.

She looked like a lost little girl.

She stood there for a few more minutes before speaking again.

"Just don’t think that I’m a small and helpless girl, got it, nerd? Well then...can I?"

I stared at her for a few more minutes.

My first instinct was to say no.

Why should I comfort her after the way she had treated me?

But something in her tired eyes made me stop.

Her hands were trembling slightly on the pillow, and her shoulders were hunched forward.

This was the first time she had ever been nice to me or asked for help with anything.