Just My Type

1- Hello Adam

One Month Later

"No Blake, I'm serious. I have to get out of here." I closed the door to my bed room and whispered into the phone. "Peni I'm almost positive that you are overreacting. Besides, you can't just move a month in. She can't be that bad, I believe in you. Hey I've got to go someone is here."

"Blake you don't- hello? Blake?" The line went dead and I threw the phone down onto my bed. What a great friend. If anyone would just listen to me that would know that Kendra is that bad. I couldn't deal with her constant visitors and the gifts they bring along with them. I swear I get second hand high every time I walk into the apartment. It was becoming too much and I needed to get away.

It wasn't that she was a bad person, and I really did like her the few times I actually interacted with her. We were just too different, and the apartment was not big enough for both of us. My room was smaller than my bathroom back home, and that's saying a lot. Living here was more harmful than it was helpful, even though the rent was super low... now I guess I know why.

I lied on my bed for a few minutes, drowning out Kendra's loud music with my thoughts. I decided it was time for me to look for somewhere else to stay and I needed to find that place fast, or else I would go crazy living here. I grabbed my keys and bag quickly and left my room to find a cloud of smoke covering the rest of the apartment. "Hey Penelope!" Kendra sat on the couch with her best friend Zo. No, it's not Zoe. I asked.

"Come join us!" I smiled, trying not to cough. "Thanks Kendra, but I've got to be off. I've got work! Hey Zo." It wasn't a lie, I did have to go to work in just a little while. I worked at a daycare on campus for moms going to school. It was a fun job, and the kids are cute. It was just a weird transition from the quiet library to a room full of screaming children. Plus I used to work only at night, now my job begins in the morning because of my class schedule.

Leaving the apartment, I groaned as I realized our creepy neighbor, Heath, was out and about. I tried to navigate my way around him, towards the stairs without having to speak... I should've known it wouldn't work. Heath was a talker. "Hello Penelope." He was about thirty or so and had a dog that was on its death bed.

I sighed, reaching the stairs just a second too late, "Hi Heath. How are you?" I didn't have to ask how he was. I could've just kept walking. Dummy. "I'm fair. How is Kendra? Is she inside?" He had a terrifying crush on the girl, because apparently he was one of her visitors at some point. I tried to stay far from the situation. "Uh, I don't think so. I didn't see her in the living room. Anyhow, bye Heath." He pushed up his glasses and waved his fingers at me.

I got out of there as fast as possible, making a beeline for my car. I remembered during my first week, there was a tour of all of the buildings and classrooms, and we passed a board of postings for people looking for roommates in the main hall. They said it normally stayed there for the first few weeks but I thought it would be worth a try. I was completely and totally desperate.

It only took me a few minutes to get to the main hall, it was just a huge building with a few lecture rooms and a lot of lobby areas for students to study or just relax in. I ate lunch here most of the time. I made my way through the building, attempting to find my way back to the board.

When I got there, I was incredibly disappointed. Only a few pieces of paper hung off of the cork board. One was bright pink and all of the little slots with a phone number on it had been torn off. The other was just a piece of notebook paper that read "Looking For Someone Who Can Be My DD- Cheap Rent" It didn't even have a phone number on it. I assumed "DD" stood for designated driver.

I groaned and ripped the papers off the board, crumbling them up angrily. I rested my head against it, breathing in the clean air for just another moment. I wondered if Kendra would even notice if I came back to the apartment before I had to go to work. Not that I wanted to, but I needed to take a moment to waller in my own self pity. I sighed and picked my head up, ready to turn around when a familiar voice made me practically jump out of my skin. "Penelope?"