how I spent my (crazy-ass) summer vacation

[Marksman45]

Part 1

Summer vacation started off with a bang. Literally, as Mick ran his dad's truck into a parked car.

By summer "vacation" the university of course meant I had to "vacate" the dorms, so I was taking all of my stuff (and I have a lot of stuff) to the apartment of my friend Jamie, since she was going to be out of town for a while, and I didn't have an apartment yet. See, I was trying to find an apartment with my friends Griffen & Cavanaugh. Plan was, they were gonna crash at Lisa & Rose's apartment, and I was gonna crash at Eric's apartment, and we were all gonna get jobs to raise the money for an apartment in town, 'cause none of us wanted to go back home.

So before I was forced to leave, I piled up the first load of stuff into Mick's dad's truck and we (Mick driving) took it to Jamie's apartment. Mick of course ran the truck into a parked car. Ended up finishing the job by borrowing Buck's huge boat of a car, and getting lost a lot, 'cause I had never driven myself around town.

About the week before and the first few weeks of summer, every night was a party at Lisa & Rose's apartment. I passed out on that floor so many times. And apparently I always did it on my back, arms spread out, which caused Lisa to observe "Aw, he's like a drunken angel."

Well, it was at these parties that we met Nick (cue ominous music).

Nick was about 6 foot tall and ridiculously thin. He often compared his figure to that of a Holocaust victim. Really. His hair was died black and worn in a certain style, and his clothes also of a certain style, that he could be described by the phrase "an emo fuck."
Nick looked (and acted) about 18. Turns out he was 23. So he bought liquor for us. So at first everyone liked Nick. He seemed like a nice enough guy and all.

Nick was living in the closet at Lisa & Rose's apartment. I'm serious, he was living in the closet. Slept in there, had all his stuff in there, everything. We didn't know this at the time, but he had told Rose that Lisa said he could live in the closet & his rent would be cleaning the house everyday; and he told Lisa that Rose said the same thing. So, under false pretenses, each consented to him living in the closet, so he did. Creepy enough for you?

Since we were looking for an apartment, and more people meant less rent per person, we invited Nick to move in with us once we found the apartment.

Here's what ended up happening:
I stayed at Jamie's apartment while she was out of town, instead of Eric's; Eric is a nice guy and all, but he's a homosexual to likes to take it upon himself to "broaden the horizons" of his straight male friends. His nickname is (honestly) "the corruptor of young men," an epithet he's kinda proud of. (Oh, and he's 26 or 28 or something)

When Rose gets back from vacation in Barbados, she & Lisa end up finding out about what Nick did to get to stay there. Griffen was in his hometown at the time doing laundry or something, but Cavanaugh was still at their apartment. Rose called her brother & his friend to come over and forcibly evict Nick from the premises, which they did. However, the situation got out of hand and Cavanaugh was included in this. And we had no idea about what Nick had done; he fed us some lie or half-truth about some reason that Rose was mad at him, and we believed it.

So, I'm staying at Jamie's while she's out of town, and suddenly there with me are Nick, Cavanaugh, and occasionally Griffen. (This is a one bedroom apartment). I'm feeling seriously like I'm abusing Jamie's generosity, but I don't know how to tell everyone this; I mean, they've got nowhere else to go. And of course, no one's got a job yet and no one has any money, so we have no way to get an apartment.

Finally, a break-through.
Cavanaugh gets a loan from his dad to use on an apartment. We find one we like, and discover that they require proof of employment. "No problem," says Nick, who tells us that he's acquired a job! So then we place too much trust in Nick.
While Cavanaugh is visiting a friend of his in The City, he leaves his car & the money with Nick so that he can go get the apartment. Oops.

Nick vanishes for about 3 days. He spends over half the money on alcohol and concerts. On top of that, he causes a 3-car pileup with Cavanaugh's car and doesn't tell him.

So there's a ridiculously drawn-out fiasco involving getting the money back, and Cavanaugh's dad being sued over the accident that Nick caused. Cavanaugh finally gets the money back, but the day he brings the car back to his hometown for insurance assessment, he gets mugged. At the mall. And the whole cookie crumbles like a house of cards, as it were.

And that's just the first month.

[Lightning Rod]

mars,

this sounds like an episode of Friends

[Marksman45]

lol, come on, that's just mean

[Lightning Rod]

I know you can handle it