House-mates Stories

Here I was. My place of residence for the next 3 years- a standard unkempt house in the middle of a row of terrace houses, down a dodgy looking street with empty bottles and beer cans rolling everywhere, and cars parked haphazardly wherever there was space. Turning to the taxi that dropped me here with a sigh, I paid with the slowly diminishing supply of notes that lay crumpled in my wallet. Pulling my large suitcase behind me, I kicked open the gate, which was hanging crookedly on its hinges anyway and walked up the concrete path, before getting my keys out to unlock, what I presumed was the locked door. "The last one's here!" A guy's voice reached me through the thin door and I froze in my tracks. Sure enough the door was flung open and my three house mates stood opposite me, six eyes critically analysing my every feature... ******************************************************************************** When Emma starts her first year at university, she couldn't wait to get away from her previous hellish life. Meeting new amazing friends, attending the greatest parties and everything else she had seen in the movies, she had high hopes for the year. Little does she know things are never as they seem and the perfect life is just a fantasy... Thank you for the beautiful cover @DreamsForDreams!