Kissing My Roommate

PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM

Emma’s POV

“Asher aggravates me so much”. I screamed as I paced up and down in Maya’s sitting room.

She just sat there with a bag of potato chips in her hand eating as she watched me nearly have a mental breakdown in front of her.

“What did he do this time around?”

I turned around and looked at her.

Truth is, it’s not really Asher. It was my father, I got a call from him and he wanted to keep me updated with his ‘family affair’.

I sighed and went to sit down besides Maya.

“My father called me today, twice”.

“Oh honey”, Maya cooed.

“What did he have to say?”

I shrugged.

“Apparently Ashley is having his baby soon, then the wedding plans will start. He is so selfish he doesn’t even realize that!”

Maya brought me closer and hugged me.

“Shhh, you know you have to let it go right? Your mom have moved on past it”.

“That is the facade she puts on, but she can’t deceive me. I hear her crying silently in her room some days, you know”.

Maya nodded and continued holding me, rocking me back and forth.

“It’s going to be alright, you know you have to let go and accept that he is moving on”.

“He is so stupid, he has not really been they for my siblings and I, all of a sudden he brings a strange woman who wants to play mother to my siblings and I”.

“Sshhh, free your heart from the bitterness sweetie, okay?” I nodded and hugged her.

“I gotta go back to the dorm”.

“Yessss, I wonder why Jordan is not blowing up your phone right now”.

I laughed, “crazy thing. You won’t believe that we don’t still have each other’s numbers”.

Maya’s mouth dropped open.

“What kind of roommates are you both?”

I drew in a breath and winked, “the best kinds”.

“Alright, go take a shower and prepare to go back. You can borrow my clothes, don’t ask”.

“Aw, you are so sweet”.

“Get out of here”.

I laughed as I went into the room.

We went to the party last night, but left early because I was getting upset. My dad started calling around nine pm. When I finally picked up and heard what he had to say, I was already upset.

As if that was not enough, I ran into Asher again and he made sure to f**k up the rest of the evening for me.

I had looked for Maya and told her I wanted to leave, she could sense something was wrong with me and asked me to wait while she go tell Tyler that we were leaving. I had not even told Jordan that I was leaving the party and will not be sleeping in the dorm.

But I was way too upset to even look for her, all I had wanted to do at that time was leave the party before I had a meltdown.

Fast forward to present.

I searched through Maya’s closet for a particular dress I’ve had my eyes on for a long while and whooped in joy as I found it and took it to the bathroom.

I bathed and dressed up, then threw my dirty clothes into her laundry basket.

“I am almost ready, you are driving me you know that right?” I yelled so she could hear me and imagined her rolling her eyes at me right now.

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Jordan’s POV

Emma is not yet back. She had not even called and stupid thing is that I still don’t have her number, after almost a week of staying together.

If not that Tyler had told me she left with Maya because she was upset or something, still because she left upset made me to worry more.

“Dude get off my roommate’s bed”, I said to Alex when I noticed that they was touching stuff.

“Dude chill, you’ve been going on and on about your roommate ever since I got here”.

“Am I not supposed to?”

“No, if the both of you are not f*****g”.

“Well we are not”.

“Uh huh”, Alex said in a voice that said they wasn’t convinced and I rolled my eyes.

“Just don’t leave her things scattered”, I said as I walked into the kitchen to fix something to eat. I wonder if Emma had eaten or if she will be hungry and decided to include her.

“What are you making?” I heard Alex yell.

“s**t up and don’t disturb me else no food for you”, I yelled back and put in my earphones.

I am so stupid for forgetting to save Maya’s number that day.

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Emma’s POV

“Call me if you need anything”, was Maya’s last words as she drove out of the dorm and I entered into the lobby and straight to the elevator.

Right now I just want to lay down on my bed and sleep with no one to disturb me, I prayed to the heavens that Jordan will be out.

But instead the universe had other plans for me, because immediately I opened the door and entered the room fully, I saw a sight that made me wish I was still back at Maya’s place instead of coming back to the dorm.

I pinched my nose bridge and counted one to ten, trying rein in my anger.

Suddenly the stranger noticed me, she smiled at me.

“Oh hi, I didn’t notice you come in”.

How would you? When you were focused on disorganizing my stuff, I’d wanted to scream at her.

But said instead, “hi, where is Jordan?” I will not put this on the visitor, Jordan gets to take the blame.

“Jay is in the kitchen”.

“Thank you”, I said and marched straight into the kitchen.

I walked into the kitchen and met her slicing up some tomatoes. How did she even get those, because I know for a fact that we lack groceries.

“Jordan!”

She immediately turned and saw me, her little frown broke into a smile and she came to me to hug me.

“Shessh, I have been worried about you. Why did you not give me call?” She queried.

“Like you gave me your number?” I asked rhetorically.

“Anyways, what is that girl doing on my bed and not yours, she have messed up my bedding”.

Jordan just stood there smiling at me, like she enjoys seeing me mad.

“They”, she finally said.

I shook my head in confusion, what is she trying to say. I just told her that her friend is messing up my bed and all she can say is they?

“Alex is non-binary, so her pronouns are they/ them”.

I understood what she was trying to say and nodded.

“Okay, Alex have my bed f****d up now Jordan”.

“I am sorry, I will fix that up when I’m done here”. She said with a soft smile and returned to what she was doing.

The fight that was in my body left and I leaned against the door.

“I am sorry”.

She turned startled with a little frown.

“Sorry for what?”

“Coming off rude, I’m just having a rough time”.

She hummed and nodded.

“Tyler told me. What happened at the party last night?”

I’d wanted to say nothing but I realized that there was nothing to hide.

“I ran into my ex at the game and also the party, he had some nasty things to say”.

Jordan dropped the knife she was using to chop and I saw a twitch in her jaw.

“I took care of him, I was mostly upset with my father and what he had to tell me”. I quickly added.

“Problems?” She asked and I nodded without giving out more and without she asking again.

“So what are you making?”

“spaghetti and tomato sauce”.

“Sounds yummy”.

“Of course baby, it will be”.

“Never pegged you for the cooking type”.

“Well, I am full of many surprises. You are in for a ride to adventure land”.

We both became silent for a while and I spoke up softly.

“Sorry if I made you worried last night”.

She looked up at me and smiled, “I am just glad that you are fine now”.

I returned her smile, “thank you”.

She nodded and continued with her task.

“We need to go grocery shopping”.

“We will do that tomorrow”.

“Are you sure?” I asked her just to be sure I was not inconveniencing her.

“I have nothing to do tomorrow”.

I beamed at her. “Okay then, tomorrow morning”.

I left her in the kitchen and bounced back to the room.

I greeted Alex well this time around and we talked. They were actually very funny and I liked them.

Jordan sure knows how to pick cool friends.

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Jordan’s POV

I was just seeing Alex off after we had eaten and exchanged stories among ourselves for a while.

“Do you love her?” Alex asked immediately we got outside of the lobby.

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t fool me jay, I’ve seen the way you look at her. She is different”.

I smiled, “that she is”.

“She’s gay?”

I shook my head, “I honestly don’t know where she falls on the spectrum”.

Alex nodded, “I like her, she is fun”.

I grinned at Alex. Alex was one of those that was there for me when I was discovering myself. So them saying that they like Emma meant a lot to me.

“Don’t worry buddy”, Alex patted me on my shoulder and walked towards their car.

I turned and walked back into the lobby then headed for the stairs, taking two at a time. Rushing to go be with my girl alone finally after all the drama.