Last weekend was kinda surreal for me. It all started Sunday morning at 6:18am. My friend Don calls me and wakes me up telling me he's at Highway 40 and Papin ave. Me still in a daze of sleep is like "What the fuck are you doing there?" Apparently he got into a fight with a friend of his on the landing (the hot spot in downtown STL) and decided to walk home. He was in a pretty rough part of the neighborhood, but not more than a 5 minute drive from me. So I go pick him up, he's still wasted, and he's still high from the line of coke he did with some hobo on the street. "Man I had one fucked up night," he slurs to me. "Saw two hobos get stabbed and shit, made out with a hobo chick." So lets just say Don hit rock bottom that evening. He calls me from the White Castle at Vandeventer and Chouteau (4 blocks from the highway) and I come pick him up. He promptly drops $30 on white castles and we drive back to my place. We eat, talk about his adventure, then he passes out completely.
Natsumi is awake so I talk to her for about an hour or so over MSN then I go over to my Mom's place to have breakfast with my little brother who is visiting after taking some leave from the Marines. The day feels kinda odd, like it's not really a sunday, I guess since Monday is the 4th and all, but I noticed that something was up. As I'm talking to my mom about getting my Associates in MIS after I graduate from Southeast, my phone rings and it's my friend Amanda, whom I haven't really talked to in awhile, so it was a pleasant suprise for her to call. She says she's heard a rumor going around that Mike and his 18 month girlfriend Chelsea are getting married. This has to be almost true since Amanda's sister dated chelsea's cousin, so we've already established a reliable source. So I'm thinking "Holy shit, this is big news, I wonder if anyone else has heard about this, but I want to make sure." So I called Mike and bullshitted with him about the apartment to see if we had gotten it since we're supposed to room together. (This is where the story gets interesting, I apoligize for the build up) I'm dropping hints that maybe he should tell me something, but he never caught on either that or he was remaining tight liped about the situation. So I sit on the information I've receieved from Amanda for a bit, then I go back to the house that I'm house sitting at and wake Don up. Don is supposedly Mike's best friend, but since Chelsea has been in the picture, all of us have been cut off so to speak.
Flashback 18 months ago. Mike meets Chelsea and they are offical in October. Don names his fantasy sports team Hog Wild, after finding out that Chelsea's parents are pig farmers. Don is first to be number one on Cheslea's shitlist.
Flash back to March 04. I'm still living with Delta Delta Delta can I help ya help ya help ya and incurring a SIGNIFICANT financial blow for continuing to live on my lease, not to mention my grades have slipped as well and I'm down to 6 hours. Mike is in a predicament since he wants to go home the semester before he graduates to do his student teaching and he has limited options to find a 6 month lease in cape that would best suit him. So I'm in negotiations with my land lord to possibly stay at the house for six months. Well my land lord pulls on the deal. Not only that, but when I approached Mike about how my financial situation is going to holy hell if I got the 6 month extention on my lease and then subletted from him to Cape place, then I would need him to help me out a little to offset the close too $800 in losses I would incur at staying at the house I was living in. Mike doesn't see it like that and he offers me $140, then Chelsea gets wind of it, and Mike changes his mind completely. We now see how manipulative of a bitch Chelsea is for the first time. I become the second spot on the shit list. In conculsion to this fiasco, I put a heavy strain on my relationship with the guy once because he takes everything she says as scripture.
A couple other events happen, my roommate dave gets added to the list and Mike ends up completely cutting off everyone just about, until March of this year when he calls me and says "I took the teaching job in Jackson (10 minutes from Cape) and wanted to know if you wanted to live with me." Hold on a sec, you almost fucked me? "Sorry Mike, I'm moving back to STL to finish up at UMSL."
Well, we all know that isn't going to happen since UMSL fucked me over and said. "You need 47 hours to graduate." "Not when I'm 30 hours away from graduation at SEMO, BACK TO CAPE!"
Where was I now...So flash back to June, and I accept his offer to have him as my roommate, UNKNOWING that he is going to propose, or has actually already propsed to the wicked bitch of the east. We go down to look at apartments last tuesday, he says nothing. Chelsea was with us the entire time and was actually picking out apartments, but she was in the backseat of my car and quite frankly, she was still being a bitch. Mike always had to have Chelsea's approval on the apartment as well. We find one that is acceptable and we fill out an application.
Flash forward to Sunday, I get to the house and tell Don. Don tells me to call our friend Liz to confirm it. She knows nothing. So Don and I are like, well were they going to even tell us that they were getting engaged? Call amanda one more time, and it is true, they are engaged. Don and I start playing some air hockey when Mike calls and says "Don't tell anyone else." "I've already told Don and Liz" "Does Austyn know?" "To my knowledge no." *click* 5 minutes later, Mike's house calls again this time it's Chelsea "Stop telling people about it!" "I haven't told anyone other than Don and Liz" "Whatever, you're not supposed to tell!" "I didn't, Manda did" *click* There were some other words exchanged and she was pretty pissed off. So I come off looking like the bad guy because Chelsea's family can't keep a secret. I know have acended to king shit on Chelsea's list.
Ok, I'm sorry for the long long LONG background story and I will get to my point here soon. Do you all think that Mike should have let me know BEFOREhand that Chelsea and he were engaged? The reason is because now I will be living with him. Chelsea is going to move back to her town to do her student teaching, then she graduates. She lives about an hour and 10 minutes away. Come this december, what I believe to happen is that Chelsea will want to move in with Mike. Now I can put up with mike, but GOD DAMN if I will put up with her. The reason being is we've already seen how manipulative Chelsea is over Mike. If Chelsea doesn't like something, Mike automatically falls into "Ok Baby" mode and makes it right. So me living with her and him will probably NOT be a good idea. So if this were to happen, and this is all speculation, how do I approach Mike about the rent situation if she is staying at the apartment? It's a two bedroom at $400 a month (yeah cheap!) but still, if I don't split the rent with Mike and Chelsea 3 ways, then she has no say what goes on in the apartment, but still Mike will make it so that she does have some say. If She does pitch in 1/3 of the rent, then I'm out numberd on all apartment decisions 2:1. If chelsea just pitches in for the utilities, then we'll have a whole big fiasco about adjustments since I know I will probably use up more electricity than the two of them because I have my PC on at all times and I watch a shit load of TV. Not only that but they may not want to pay for Cable, and Mike only wants Internet, the slowest cable or if we can get DSL then that would be possible. So it's up to me to call the phone company, the cable company and the electric company to get all of this set up if I want it.
I've been talking to Natsumi about this as well and she was under the impression that she'd be over at my place more than not so my idea of just upgrading her cable and leaving my PC over at her place and using the internet there is out of the question, but we still need to talk about it.
Those last two paragraphs are pure speculation but there is a very good chance that they could happen, and it feels like I'm getting screwed. Any opinons, musings or info would help greatly. Thank you for reading this.
Natsumi is awake so I talk to her for about an hour or so over MSN then I go over to my Mom's place to have breakfast with my little brother who is visiting after taking some leave from the Marines. The day feels kinda odd, like it's not really a sunday, I guess since Monday is the 4th and all, but I noticed that something was up. As I'm talking to my mom about getting my Associates in MIS after I graduate from Southeast, my phone rings and it's my friend Amanda, whom I haven't really talked to in awhile, so it was a pleasant suprise for her to call. She says she's heard a rumor going around that Mike and his 18 month girlfriend Chelsea are getting married. This has to be almost true since Amanda's sister dated chelsea's cousin, so we've already established a reliable source. So I'm thinking "Holy shit, this is big news, I wonder if anyone else has heard about this, but I want to make sure." So I called Mike and bullshitted with him about the apartment to see if we had gotten it since we're supposed to room together. (This is where the story gets interesting, I apoligize for the build up) I'm dropping hints that maybe he should tell me something, but he never caught on either that or he was remaining tight liped about the situation. So I sit on the information I've receieved from Amanda for a bit, then I go back to the house that I'm house sitting at and wake Don up. Don is supposedly Mike's best friend, but since Chelsea has been in the picture, all of us have been cut off so to speak.
Flashback 18 months ago. Mike meets Chelsea and they are offical in October. Don names his fantasy sports team Hog Wild, after finding out that Chelsea's parents are pig farmers. Don is first to be number one on Cheslea's shitlist.
Flash back to March 04. I'm still living with Delta Delta Delta can I help ya help ya help ya and incurring a SIGNIFICANT financial blow for continuing to live on my lease, not to mention my grades have slipped as well and I'm down to 6 hours. Mike is in a predicament since he wants to go home the semester before he graduates to do his student teaching and he has limited options to find a 6 month lease in cape that would best suit him. So I'm in negotiations with my land lord to possibly stay at the house for six months. Well my land lord pulls on the deal. Not only that, but when I approached Mike about how my financial situation is going to holy hell if I got the 6 month extention on my lease and then subletted from him to Cape place, then I would need him to help me out a little to offset the close too $800 in losses I would incur at staying at the house I was living in. Mike doesn't see it like that and he offers me $140, then Chelsea gets wind of it, and Mike changes his mind completely. We now see how manipulative of a bitch Chelsea is for the first time. I become the second spot on the shit list. In conculsion to this fiasco, I put a heavy strain on my relationship with the guy once because he takes everything she says as scripture.
A couple other events happen, my roommate dave gets added to the list and Mike ends up completely cutting off everyone just about, until March of this year when he calls me and says "I took the teaching job in Jackson (10 minutes from Cape) and wanted to know if you wanted to live with me." Hold on a sec, you almost fucked me? "Sorry Mike, I'm moving back to STL to finish up at UMSL."
Well, we all know that isn't going to happen since UMSL fucked me over and said. "You need 47 hours to graduate." "Not when I'm 30 hours away from graduation at SEMO, BACK TO CAPE!"
Where was I now...So flash back to June, and I accept his offer to have him as my roommate, UNKNOWING that he is going to propose, or has actually already propsed to the wicked bitch of the east. We go down to look at apartments last tuesday, he says nothing. Chelsea was with us the entire time and was actually picking out apartments, but she was in the backseat of my car and quite frankly, she was still being a bitch. Mike always had to have Chelsea's approval on the apartment as well. We find one that is acceptable and we fill out an application.
Flash forward to Sunday, I get to the house and tell Don. Don tells me to call our friend Liz to confirm it. She knows nothing. So Don and I are like, well were they going to even tell us that they were getting engaged? Call amanda one more time, and it is true, they are engaged. Don and I start playing some air hockey when Mike calls and says "Don't tell anyone else." "I've already told Don and Liz" "Does Austyn know?" "To my knowledge no." *click* 5 minutes later, Mike's house calls again this time it's Chelsea "Stop telling people about it!" "I haven't told anyone other than Don and Liz" "Whatever, you're not supposed to tell!" "I didn't, Manda did" *click* There were some other words exchanged and she was pretty pissed off. So I come off looking like the bad guy because Chelsea's family can't keep a secret. I know have acended to king shit on Chelsea's list.
Ok, I'm sorry for the long long LONG background story and I will get to my point here soon. Do you all think that Mike should have let me know BEFOREhand that Chelsea and he were engaged? The reason is because now I will be living with him. Chelsea is going to move back to her town to do her student teaching, then she graduates. She lives about an hour and 10 minutes away. Come this december, what I believe to happen is that Chelsea will want to move in with Mike. Now I can put up with mike, but GOD DAMN if I will put up with her. The reason being is we've already seen how manipulative Chelsea is over Mike. If Chelsea doesn't like something, Mike automatically falls into "Ok Baby" mode and makes it right. So me living with her and him will probably NOT be a good idea. So if this were to happen, and this is all speculation, how do I approach Mike about the rent situation if she is staying at the apartment? It's a two bedroom at $400 a month (yeah cheap!) but still, if I don't split the rent with Mike and Chelsea 3 ways, then she has no say what goes on in the apartment, but still Mike will make it so that she does have some say. If She does pitch in 1/3 of the rent, then I'm out numberd on all apartment decisions 2:1. If chelsea just pitches in for the utilities, then we'll have a whole big fiasco about adjustments since I know I will probably use up more electricity than the two of them because I have my PC on at all times and I watch a shit load of TV. Not only that but they may not want to pay for Cable, and Mike only wants Internet, the slowest cable or if we can get DSL then that would be possible. So it's up to me to call the phone company, the cable company and the electric company to get all of this set up if I want it.
I've been talking to Natsumi about this as well and she was under the impression that she'd be over at my place more than not so my idea of just upgrading her cable and leaving my PC over at her place and using the internet there is out of the question, but we still need to talk about it.
Those last two paragraphs are pure speculation but there is a very good chance that they could happen, and it feels like I'm getting screwed. Any opinons, musings or info would help greatly. Thank you for reading this.
"An old man dies, a young girl lives, fair trade." - Bruce Willis from Sin City.
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