They were whispering in the hallway about what had happened the night before. It wasn't much of a whisper though. I could hear the anger and annoyance in their voices as every word slipped out. Her door was only two feet away but they didn't care if she heard them. They wanted her to because they wanted the confrontation. Me? I don't like confrontation so I sat and listened from my bed. However, they tried to involve me. They told me that she let some boy try and kick our door open. How'd that turn out? well the whole door frame broke and needed to be replaced. They wanted me to react but I still stayed neutral. I knew we'd figure it out. Anyway, that's what they had been whispering about.
They continued to talk about the situation throughout the morning as we got ready for the day. The two of them were out eating breakfast in the kitchen when quiet, Roommate B comes flying out of her room and boy was she angry.
"If you have something to say, say it to my ******* face! I've told you that before!" She yelled at them.
"I was drunk and wasn't thinking. It will get fixed. You don't need to sit here and talk about it without me when I can hear every word you're saying!".
I couldn't believe it. She was always so passive and then all of a sudden she found her voice. I was glad that she was standing up for herself. They should've just confronted her in the first place instead of talking bad about her within ear shot, and she definitely let them know that.
Not sure where week 13 really kicks in but this is a fine slice of life, roommates version. The first half of the first graf is a particularly fine set-up, immediately dropping the reader into the thick of the thing, the whispers, the anger, the backstabbing. Nice! (FWIW, I hated having roommates.)
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