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Life Gets Better: Chapter One
Chapter One: How it starts
The rhythmic bumping on the wall between his room and his roommate’s room forced him into the living room. It was no better out there. He turned the volume on the game console up. But it did nothing to mask his best friend’s loud screaming and moaning.
He sighed and turned the game off, surrendering to his room where all he could hear was the wall bumping. He looked over at the clock.
“I have to be up in two hours, guys!” he yelled.
“Oh shit!” he heard his roommate say. “Sorry, bro!” the roommate yelled back.
There was silence for a few minutes, then the door opened.
“Sorry, Brian, we didn’t know it was so late,” Scarlett said. “Come in later. I will smooth it over with Jake,” she said before closing the door.
“Fuck that!” Brian said. “I won’t come in at all. Smooth that over!” he mumbled to himself.
But true to his nature, he showed up to work directly on time. He punched in on the time clock and got to work at his desk.
“Thought you were coming in late?” Jake, his boss, asked as he looked over the cubicle wall, “Scarlett said you weren’t feeling well.”
“Nah, it blew over,” Brian lied. Jake nodded.
