The College Life of Todd

The Downturn of Us

Rob answered "Heyy what's up bro! How's the college life?"

"Man, I'm ready to go home already! Alex lives down the hall from me and he like went and put me in an awkward situation and I pulled him aside and I got mad and let my anger get the best of me and I punched him and he got mad and stormed off."

"Aw, bruh wtf! I'm not taking sides but all he was trying to do was help you get over your fear! I would've done the same thing and you know we would have been fighting if you hit me! You're bigger than Alex, remember that, so if you ever fought him he's definitely going to lose and you'd lose everything you have in college cuz you'd face so many consequences and he also would have the option to press charges on you!"

"Well what do I do?"

"Go down to his room and knock on the door, I'll text him it's you and I and you coming to talk." I wiped the eyes and Rob smirked and said "Is that a tear I see? Wait you really were going through some shit, what happened?"

"Nothing, I've never been away from you this long and I don't know when the next time I'll see you because our first break is thanksgiving and that's all the way in November."

"Bro......you alright! I know, I miss yo annoying ass too but I didn't get accepted into OSU because my ACT score wasn't above a 31. You good, just don't think about us, think about yourself! You're going to college to better yourself, not me, so don't worry about me. I'll be fine!" I wiped my tears away and saw the RA walking down the hall, looking concerned. I wiped my face and tried to look normal, but I couldn't. I didn't have in headphones and once the RA was right in front of me, he asked "Hey, you okay? You want to talk about it?" Rob answered for me "If that's the RA, go talk to them. I can't help you a lot from on the phone, but I can kind of feel your pain!" I sniffled and said "Yeah can we go somewhere private and talk?"
"Sure," the RA said. We walked down the hall to his room and sat on the futon and I sat there. The RA said "What's up, why do you look so down or depressed?" Rob answered before I could say anything, "Hey RA, I'm Rob, Todd's twin brother! He's nervous about talking to new people and I think his anxiety is getting the best of him. He's been through a lot this week and I just can't help him with everything just because I'm not physically there."
"Todd, can you attest to this?" I nodded, and spoke "I-I really don't know what to do like I want to go back home! I don't know how I'm going to survive without my brother! We do everything together and he's like my go-to for anything I need!"

"I completely understand Todd, but what you have to remember is that you came to college for yourself not your brother. I'm pretty sure your brother means a lot to you but there comes a certain time when you guys have to be in different locations to better yourselves." Rob attested "See I told you Todd! I can't be there all the time." I sniffled and wiped my face. I kind of felt better but I still had to go talk to Alex. I looked at my phone and said "Rob, can you call Alex to come to the RA's room in like 3 minutes. I'm going to tell him what happened but call him, chat with him, then tell him to come down here in a few minutes okay?"
"Ok lil bro!" I hung up and the RA looked at me confusingly and asked "Tell me what? Did you do something wrong?"
"Yeah kind of? So this is what happened, my best friend Alex, he lives down the hall, but he and I walked up to my room and he like introduced me to my roommate and then like left me hanging in there with him and I have this problem with meeting new people so I get nervous and don't know what to do but I made some small talk then Alex comes back and brings his roommate in there to meet my roommate and I. He knew I'd be nervous, but he called me out and said Todd aren't you going to speak? So I spoke and then I had to get out of there and confront him about what he did because I was so pissed so I pulled him aside, we went to the end of the hall and I told him what he did wrong and when he responded, it made me even more mad so I punched him in his chest. He got mad, I tried to apologize, but he wouldn't allow it. I sat there and I had to talk to someone before I did something stupid so that's why I called my brother and then you happened to come down there and find me slowly losing it."