Chapter 3

After Roderick barged in and stirred everything up, my sour mood had mostly lifted.

Forget it. Whose youth doesn't run into a scumbag or two? A rotten guy like that wasn't worth a single one of my tears.

Classes started tomorrow. I needed to pack.

But like the old saying goes, nice people get walked all over.

I only wanted a clean split. I had no intention of blowing this up. But before I could even say a word, Saul couldn't hold himself back.

That very night, Saul's post popped up on my feed:

【Some people weren't born with a princess's fate, but they sure have the princess act down. Whatever, it's fine now. I'm free. Nobody's holding me down anymore.】

Fresh off fighting and breaking up with me, and he turns around and posts something like this. Even an idiot could tell who he was jabbing at.

I was about to type out five hundred words of pure rage when I spotted the comment underneath from my roommate Althea Lawrence: "Congrats on escaping the misery."

What was that supposed to mean?

My own roommate stabbing me in the back?

I'd always thought I treated her decently. I let her copy my homework, lent her my notes before finals, and never once forgot her share whenever I took everyone out for meals or iced drinks.

And now she actually thought my boyfriend had been suffering the whole time he was with me?

No. Maybe in her eyes, I was the outsider.

Althea and Saul went to high school together. Back when Saul was chasing me, he got my number from her in the first place.

But still, Althea and I had lived under the same roof for a year. She'd seen with her own eyes how much I'd poured into this relationship.

How could she say that about me?

I whipped out my phone to fire off a message and call her out, but one message after another kept popping up, from my other two roommates.

They'd seen Saul's post too, and they were both messaging to ask what was going on.

I gave them the rough version of everything, and once they heard it they were furious right along with me, comforting me on one hand and cursing Saul out on my behalf on the other. It made me feel a little better.

Looks like there are still more normal people in this world than not.