Allergy crisis: My Roommate Wants to Kill Me

“Please help me. I really don’t have any strength left. I feel so uncomfortable here. Please help me get some water.”

Fiona looked at me anxiously. When the girl saw that I was about to faint at any time, she hurried to get glass from her desk.

But Anna stopped her and pointed at my glass as she said, “Fiona, use her glass. Don’t let her use your glass. Aren’t you afraid of getting infected by her allergy?”

For a while, Fiona hesitated. But she eventually turned around to get my glass on my desk. Immediately, I took my glass with trembling hands as I waited for the person I had been waiting. All of a sudden, the door to the our dorm rang.

“Is Miss Valerie Mitchell in the dorm?”

Anna answered, “Isn’t that our resident advisor. What she’s doing here?”

Fiona meekly responded, “She’s now looking for Valerie, but Valerie is like this now.”

No one in the room answered me, but the resident advisor (RA) still knocked the door. Emily just rolled her eyes as she told Fiona brashly, “Just open the door a little ad tell her that Valerie isn’t in the dorm!”

Fiona just looked at me awkwardly as she whispered, “I-I can’t lie.”

Anna, who was annoyed, eventually said, “It’s useless, Emily. I’ll answer it.”

Then, Anna immediately opened the door albeit slightly while she blocked the room with her whole body. After that, the girl greeted the RA as she faintly smiled. Just as she was about to say that I wasn’t here, I immediately shouted with all strength I had, “Ma’am, I’m here!”

Immediately, the RA opened the door in hurry as she walked inside the dorm and shouted at Anna, “You idiot, are you trying to lie to me?”

Without further ado, Anna kept apologizing and tried to change the subject. But Emily was still trying to hide me. Still, the RA was a stubborn person. When the RA realized that Emily was trying to block her to go to my room, the former got so angry that she pushed the latter aside. Finally, she was able to see me.

Immediately, the RA’s eyes went wide. She quickly hurried to rush towards me. At this point, I was now leaning against the bed corner weakly as I was holding my eyelids to let her help me open my medicine bottle’s cap.

“What’s wrong, Valerie? What’s going on?”

The RA looked at me nervously before she then looked at the trash can. She immediately understood about what was going on. After all, she knew that I was allergic to mangoes. Since she didn’t have time to process all of this, she focused on helping me to open the bottle cap.

However, the RA noticed that my hand was shaking as I held the medicine bottle. She then took the bottle from me as she fed me my pill. After that, she tilted my glass of water to my lips as she helped me to drink. As soon as I swallowed the pill, I asked the RA to help me call 911 with every last bit of my consciousness.

Seeing this, Emily then jumped out as she tried to pull the RA and coaxed her, “Ma’am, I think Valerie is just pretending. She didn’t eat any mangoes. How couldd she be allergic? Let’s not cause any trouble for the police.”

Anna also added in agreement, “Yes, that’s right, Ma’am. Valerie is surely pretending. We’ve been living at the same dorm with her, so we could see through her lies. We’ve seen it all the time. She just likes to seek attention.”

However, the RA who was a decent adult knew very well whether I was pretending or not.

When she saw how indifferent my roommates towards me, the RA suddenly shouted at them in anger, “Shut the fuck up!”

The moment Emily and Anna saw the RA’s tough attitude, both of them quickly shut their mouths. As we were waiting for the 911 to bring an ambulance, the water I had drunk that had mango powder in it started to take effect. My mouth started to foam. There was only a buzzing noise in my ears.

Not only that, I could only hear the RA asked me to holding on because the ambulance would be here soon. But I couldn’t respond to her. I just held the glass in my hand tightly as I waited. Soon enough, the ambulance alarm was heard downstairs.