two winters ago I took an 8 hour megabus to spend a week with the oomf I was in love with at the time. he was like this hedi drainer type who I invested in during the quarantine back when he had just 12 followers and an eren yeager profile picture.
oomf lived thirty minutes outside of Montreal with 3 other roommates and each day we'd literally just wake up at 12pm, do some bullshit in the afternoon, and then go the movie theatre to watch some goyslop after dinner. it was awkward because at night he'd sometimes have to call his girlfriend so he'd make me scroll tiktoks with my headphones on in this small nook of his room that could be slightly concealed by his closet door because he was really paranoid that his girlfriend was gonna make him randomly turn on FaceTime and see me. I remember on one of the afternoons I introduced him to the hellp while we built puzzles.
on the last full day it was hailing pretty bad, but we had walked to a brunch spot despite the weather and when we got back home his fifty year old Chinese immigrant roommate knocked on the door with two cups of this herbal concoction (I only remember the taste of nutmeg and brown sugar) because he didn't want us to infect the rest of the house. we took our jeans off because they were drenched and we sat side-by-side, skin-to-skin under the covers of his double bed for warmth. I was getting pretty emotional and so I said something really pathetic along the lines of, "I hate that im leaving tomorrow and you probably don't even give a fuck and you're gonna go to your New Year's Eve party tomorrow night and I won't hear from you and ill be alone cutting myself and then you're gonna go take a train down to see your girlfriend and go bake cookies with her", which, made him really pissed off. he literally got off the bed and said to me, "genre wym? genre comment tu peux assumer comment moi jvais feel demain. et genre j'ai legit un exam samedi matin genre jvais study hella late demain. c'est la psychose."
I got on my megabus the next morning and never spoke to him again but he turned 23 yesterday and I was reminded of this just now while listening to the song "Princess" off the album "MAID OF HONOUR" by the artist Drake.