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...

When I found out I’d be sharing a dorm room with Alex, I was thrilled. Alex and I had hit it off pretty quickly during our first year at college. We met in an intro to psychology class and bonded over our shared love of 90s rock music and late-night coffee runs. So when we realized we’d both signed up for the same dorm the following year, it seemed like fate.

Moving in with Alex felt like the sta...

In college, I shared a room with Jordan, someone I had admired from afar during our first year. Jordan was the kind of person who seemed to have everything together—charming, always surrounded by friends, and effortlessly excelling in classes. When I found out we’d be roommates sophomore year, I was excited. I thought that living with Jordan would be the perfect setup: we’d become close friends, a...

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...

Zina’s eyes widened at the large glass buildings which were glistening from the sun.

“Am I- Am I really going to be living here?”

Her mom, who was right beside her grabbed her hand. “Yes, and you are going to love it here.”

“I’m nervous, I mean, am I really good enough to live in a place like this? Everyone who got in here are probably top students who have won millions of awards. I’ve barely wo...

He walked through the door with his backpack and a duffle, and just by his breathing I could tell who it was. Adam. The guy from my high school gym class who bullied me every day. Taunted me during the mile, laughed at my strength gains, and once even knocked me into a puddle during dodge ball in a field. My heart plummeted to my toes. This is who I would be spending the next year with?

Adam thre...