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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Dear Laf…
Actually fuck formal language, it’s just an email to a friend. Hey! It should be around eleven pm back in France, right? So I hope to get a reply from you shortly. If not, well, first of all good night. Secondly, holy shit this university is wonderful! I mean, I have been here for four hours tops, but it’s really awesome from what I have already seen! The architecture is fantastic, although it is quite big so I might get lost in the first few days, but other than that I have no problems with the place whatsoever.
Now the people… Well. I have met two guys at the President’s Welcome, they probably knew each other before judging by how they familiarly they acted, but I feel like we got along pretty well! John is majoring in biochem, and he seems so passionate about it, even managed to get me interested in conversations about biology, which, as you know, is one of the hardest tasks, so that’s pretty impressive! Herc is doing textile designs, which is also quite cool, and according to John he is good at it already so will just breathe through the course. Either way, I got some friends here already, so that’s good.
My roommate on the other hand… Ugh. Where do I start. Probably at the fact that he has got FOUR SUITCASES. Seriously. Why?! What do you even need for a trimester of college, some clothes?! But fine, that I don’t particularly care about, whatever floats your boat, you know. Plus, hey, he’s hot at least. Well, that’s what I thought at first. His attitude, on the other hand… I am not going to have a good time in this room, I swear to god. He is annoying, he basically indirectly INSULTED me on the fact that I am in the university because of a scholarship, and then proceeded to comment how that explains why I don’t have much stuff at all. Like, better than FOUR damn SUITCASES!!!
So naturally I argued back, saying something about how the fact that he is obviously a rich asshole explains how HE got into the college, and then we proceeded to bicker about it for the next hour, and then he slammed the book he was reading on the table, told me to fuck myself and stormed out of the room. And here I am writing you this email and going through the course material one more time so I don’t come unprepared.
Aaaand that’s about it. I hope you consider this “not overly detailed”, lol.
Kind regards,
A.Ham
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Bonjour ami!!!
Oui, that was the perfect length with the perfect amount of detail, please do stick to that in the future. I am not asleep, as you can probably see, because I was waiting for SOMEONE to email to me about his day, so in the future please do consider the time difference. Merci.
Getting to the point, well, it’s good that you like the place and it is good that you managed to make friends already (and you know perfectly damn well yourself that it does not happen easily), but your roommate does sound like an dick. Please do update me if he does anything else, I happen to enjoy drama.
Also, do forgive me if my emails are not close to being as detailed as yours, because firstly I tend to speak much less, and secondly my life in France is rather uneventful. My university doesn’t even start until next week! So I will highly appreciate daily updates from America, plus I know your habits of ranting about the smallest things :D
Either way, good luck with your roommate and good night!
Laf
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
I am assuming you aren’t asleep, but if you are and read this in the morning, then never mind it. If you are awake though, reply.
TJ
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Bonsoir. What happened?
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Nothing “happened” strictly speaking. Well, apart from the first day of my university, you know. So, feel like listening to me?
TJ
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Obviously.
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Good.
So. Well, it went pretty good for the most part. The President’s welcome was boring, as it usually is, so I just went around spectating people. I think I made friends with this one guy, James. He’s also majoring in politics, so that’s good. Overall, nothing too terrible happened.
But then there is my roommate.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t the one rude to him first. Well, not “rude” per se, if I said something like that to you you would never get offended since you know me, but as him and I have never met before, he probably took it as an insult. Okay, fair enough, I was going to apologise. But then he just got so defensive all of a sudden! Started almost yelling at me, ugh. Spent a good half an hour if not more trying to pick a fight with me. I am so angry right now, you don’t even understand!!! Like, we’ll have to be in a two dorm together for at least a term, he could at least TRY to act decent towards me!
(I honestly had to run out of the room, because any more of his insults and I would have had a fucking panic attack. I am not even joking, he is so… ugh, I don’t even have the right word for it. Whatever, you know what I mean.)
So currently I am just sitting in the library. It’s pretty big and got lots of books, obviously, and lots of shelves, even better, so I can hide in here. Have been for about fifteen minutes actually, so I’m reasonably calm now. Don’t want to return to the dorm though. I should just make some more friends so I can spend time in their rooms during the day, and only sleep in mine. That guy can go fuck himself.
Sorry for the ranting, but you are the best independent party I have.
TJ
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Merde. Do I need to come over and beat your asshole roommate up? Because I honestly will if you ask me. Please try to ignore him, he is bound to leave you alone if you just don’t talk to him. For now though, just read some books maybe wait for some more people to show up to the library, talk to them and make friends. If it gets too bad – ask for a room change, they will not refuse you. And call me anytime of the night or day, wake me up if anything happens, ça ne me dérange pas. On a lighter note, it’s good that the food is good at least, not high school for you :D
Anyways, goodnight since I probably am off to sleep now (unless you want to call me or something?), and good luck.
*not signing with my initials for obvious reasons lol*
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Please do not come over, I can fight my own battles. But thanks for everything else, I guess I’ll do that. Also I’ll be fine, so just go to sleep. I will email or call you if anything happens, don’t worry, but it should be alright. Thanks again.
Good night!
TJ
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Lafayette sighed and put his phone on the bedside table, face up. Alexander will deal with his asshole roommate well enough, he wrote, talked and fought his way of worse situations. And Thomas… well, he is strong, too. And doesn’t make a habit out of lying to his cousin, so if he says that it should be alright, it really should. And hopefully he’s just overdramatizing. He tends to do that after all, doesn’t he?
Lafayette turned the notification alerts sound all the way up that night. Just in case.