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 is pretty messed up.”
“This roommate sounds manipulative.”
“She’s already sick and people are still pushing her like this?”
When I saw the post, Tessa was in the room, shaking.
Not because she felt bad for Blair.
Because she was terrified she’d never get the money for her iPad.
“How can she write something like that? She’s the one who broke my stuff!”
Mallory gave a humorless laugh.
“So now you know what it feels like when the internet turns against you?”
“If Brigid hadn’t said those things weren’t hers last night…”
“Were you going to keep trying to talk her down?”
Tessa’s face went pale. She said nothing.
Genevieve was getting grilled in the RA group chat, too.
She messaged me.
“Brigid, do you have proof?”
“We can’t let her be the only one telling this story.”
I replied:
“Yes.”
Ten minutes later, I posted a statement of facts under the Yik Yak thread.
I didn’t insult Blair.
And I didn’t outright say she was faking an illness.
I just listed the facts.
First: Blair’s so-called sleepwalking.
On two separate occasions, she only damaged items on my desk.
She has never damaged her own things.
And she has never accidentally targeted another roommate’s desk.
Second: The first item she destroyed was my laptop.
Repair estimate: $1,500.
Data recovery: an additional charge.
Blair refused to pay, and several roommates told me to “let it go.”
Third: After sending my laptop for repairs, I borrowed replacement devices from my roommates and the floor and placed them on my own desk, as anyone normally would.
Fourth: During Blair’s second “sleepwalking” episode—