New Roommate Moving in with Pet Rat

Date: 9/6/2020

I was living with my friend Kenzie. There was a third bedroom there and some new guy was moving in, neither of us really knew him. I asked him some questions to be polite and friendly, he seemed very cute and cool and nice. Kenzie was acting inappropriate like she tends to do. She was asking him questions that were clearly making him uncomfortable, like if he was single, and then if he liked her outfit and stuff. I kinda took this opportunity to go back to my room. I then listened to Kenzie straight up walk into his room unannounced while he was presumably unpacking clothes and heard her say to him “Wow that would look so good on you can I see that?” and I cringed. I heard him tell her to not walk into his room like that and to please go away. It was late and I had work in the morning. I took off my pants and changed into an oversized tee shirt for bed. Kenzie came in my room and talked to me for a bit. She talked about how cute it is with her new boyfriend Jayme. She then talked about her dad, saying her dad thought I hated him. I was so confused and wanted her to fix that. She called her dad on a second phone that she had specifically for calling only her dad. I told him I didn’t hate him. He didn’t say anything but Kenzie believed the issue was resolved and hung up. She started talking about Carter and his new apartment (he’s her roommate in real life). It finally occurred to me that there were only three bedrooms, this new guy moving in meant Carter was gone. They were best friends and lived perfectly together so I was so concerned. Something must have happened. She looked sad and said that yeah, he and his coworkers believed she was somehow putting his job and professionalism at risk. I thought about how she acts sometimes and kind of understood. But I told her that was insane and screwed up and terrible. She went back to her room and I got ready to finally sleep. There was a knock on my door. It was the new guy. “You gonna help me unpack or what?” he asked in a teasing, friendly way. I was like “Uhh let me put on pants.” I put on pants and went into his room. He had so much furniture in there and it already looked more lived in than my room. I saw he had lots of shoes. Eventually what at first looked like a pink cat came up to me. I got excited and picked him up and sat on his bed to play with the cat. I saw the snout and immediately thought it must be a baby pig instead. It was so cute. It laid down and I was petting him. “What’s the lil pig’s name?” I asked the guy. “That’s actually a large rat,” he said. I was so confused. “But the snout?” I also looked at the tail and the tail indeed could have been a rat tail. It wasn’t one of those curly pig tails. “It has a snout condition,” he said. He sat on the bed and started petting him with me. “What’s his name?” I asked again. He said something I couldn’t recognize and I couldn’t really make it out. I asked him again, “what was it? I didn’t get that.” and he repeated it and I still couldn’t understand what he was saying. At that point I was just like “Ahh okay.”