Writing Prompt

“Y-you? My god why is it you that I have as my new roommate.” I said out loud inside the dorm.

“Damn, I’d say the same thing, your the most annoying people I’ve ever met.” He replied. Then we started having a long quarrel. He slammed the door and left. Then the other two roommates came back from buying groceries.

“Whoa, what was going on with you two, I saw Ivan left the dorm, Dan did you know h...

Room 106, I think.

I step in, immediately greeted with the acrid smell of Axe Body Spray.

_Oh no._

I feel my heart drop.

A guy?

I simply kept walking, trying to justify how I felt about this stupid situation.

Yet the more I walked into the room, the more my nose burned with the smell of testosterone and other cologne smelling scents.

I just walked into my room, which I then procceeded to cover my ...

Before I could think any further I could hear the dorm door slam open and heard a couple new voices say, “Yo Dude you actually got her can WE PLAY WITH HER!” The voices plead. “Sure Marcus sneers.

Marcus roughly pulls of my mask and I then saw about five boys. One of them were holding toothpaste which wasn’t a good sign, the other was holding a box of sharpies, the other was holding a makeup kit ...

Marcus was looking through MY suitcase and he was trying to rip my pants in half! “How’d you get out.” Marcus growls.

He stalks towards me and slammed me against the wall, he then pushed me on the ground and started to slam my head against the ground,again,again, and again.

Eventually blackness took over me.

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My eyes fluttered open and I saw Marcus leaning against the bed post smirkin...

There was MARCUS! Out of ALL PEOPLE MARCUS. As Marcus turned around his grin kept getting bigger.

“Ahhhhh Freak it’s about time you join the party.” Marcus sneers pouncing on me and dragging me by the hair into the bathroom.

“You look a little cold lemme help you.” Marcus sneers as he pours boiling hot water into the TOILET!

Marcus then grabs my ear and shoved me in…..you know what. I felt Marc...

My hands shook uncontrollably and my heart thundered in my chest as I stared at the building that would soon be my future college.

I gripped my luggage so hard that my knuckles were white. The bustling crowd of new first years like me and others that were returning for their next year.

But that’s when I noticed my high school bully..Marcus the guy who was always playing cruel jokes on me.

I qui...

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Moving in with Alex felt like the sta...

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The first thing I sense when I open the door to my new home for the next few years was the smell. It was the smell of someone who went on the longest run known to man kind, for fun and then proceeded to do one hundred pushups with the windows closed so the stink can be sucked up from the walls. Then do it all over again.

I plug my nose and kick the door open. Inside its a whole mess. Beside the...

College.

The sound of freedom. I finally get to leave the house, finally get to get away from the girl who has been insistent on sticking to me since the third grade. And she didn’t stick to me in the way glue does, but tape. Duct tape. The type that won’t let go and is isistent on making life painful, and leaving a mark.

I get to leave. I’m getting thrown into the deepest part of the pool, t...