My roommate sleepwalks in the middle of the night.
She doesn’t walk into walls.
She doesn’t wander aimlessly around the room.
Every single time, she goes straight to my desk.
She smashed my laptop.
She poured Coke all over my external hard drive.
She cut up the suit I’d bought for interviews.
The last time this happened, everyone told me to let it go.
“She didn’t do it on purpose.”
“She’s sick, you know that.”
“You can always buy new things.”
“Don’t push her. She’s already in a bad place.”
So I backed down.
Later, the internship portfolio I’d spent three months preparing was destroyed while she was “sleepwalking” again.
I missed my final-round interview.
When I confronted her, she twisted it around, claiming I was bullying a roommate with a sleep disorder.
She even posted on the campus forum, painting me as the villain.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day she first “sleepwalked” and smashed my laptop.
This time, I wasn’t going to argue with her.
I was just going to put the most expensive things owned by everyone who told me to let it go right on my desk.
The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 15 “My AirPods Max receipt is right here.” “Want to see it?” Tessa pulled out her purchase history, too. “Same with my iPad.” Blair’s lips were trembling. Suddenly, she pointed at me. “This is all her fault!” “If she hadn’t deliberately put those things on
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 14 “I haven’t had time to go yet.” “And your parents?” “They’re busy with work.” Ms. Albright’s expression darkened. “Blair, this isn’t a problem that gets resolved just because you say, ‘I might be sick.’” “You have now damaged your roommates’ property on two consecutive nights.”
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 13 “I just told the truth.” Her voice was shaking. “You just wanted to ruin me.” I closed my book and looked at her calmly. “I’m not the one who ruined you.” “Your own actions did that.” Blair started playing sick. She skipped class
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 12 she again walked straight to my desk and damaged those items. Fifth: The damaged items belonged to three different people, and every owner is now demanding compensation. Sixth: I proposed two ways to handle this. Either she gets a formal diagnosis of sleepwalking, in which case her
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 11 “Now everyone in my dorm is forcing me to pay and trying to kick me out.” “I really can’t take this anymore.” Comments came in fast. “If she really is sleepwalking, you can’t blame her for everything, can you?” “Putting other people’s things there on purpose
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 10 Tessa held her iPad, her expression dark. “All my work is on there.” “What if it can’t be recovered?” Genevieve was even more direct. “The school logs all its equipment. If something is damaged, it gets charged back.” “There’s no getting out of this.”
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 09 She cried out, “You’re framing me!” I nodded. “Then let’s go to the campus health center and get you evaluated.” Blair froze. I continued. “If she really has a serious sleepwalking disorder, then we handle this as a safety issue.” “Contact her parents.”
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 08 I stood off to the side, feeling not a shred of guilt. I hadn’t smashed a single thing. I hadn’t forced Blair out of her bed in the middle of the night. All I’d done was place their so-called understanding back in their own hands. At
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 07 “Y-yes, I’m sorry. I really can’t control it.” “Please don’t push me. I’m scared, too.” Tessa was so angry her eyes were red. “You’re scared? What about my iPad?” “It has all my law school application materials on it!” Mallory was even more direct.
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The Annoying Sleepwalker Chapter 06 The room was silent for ten full seconds. Tessa was the first to understand. She didn’t even bother with slippers. She scrambled down the ladder and lunged for the iPad on the floor. The screen was a spiderweb of cracks. The frame itself was bent.
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