My Roommate And Bestie Cut My Hair In My Sleep

I know you’re probably reading the title of this article, and thinking .. wait, what?! Those were my exact thoughts when I woke up one Saturday morning to see a side of my hair drastically shorter than the other side.

It all started a few weeks prior. My roommate Whitney, and I had been best friends all through high school, and when we found out that we got into the same university, it was no doubt that we were going AND rooming together.

First semester of Freshman year was great- well for me. I was meeting a ton of new people, excelling in all of my classes, and I was really happy.

Whitney on the other hand, was having a hard time fitting in. So, naturally I tried to let her tag along with me, but she just wasn’t happy.

I think one of the things that drew people to me was my long curly hair. It was like a magnet. Soon, I then got a boyfriend, who was a Junior, so I was hardly ever in our room, and I really only saw Whiney in our English 101 class.

We were drifting apart and to make matters worse I also planned to live off campus the next year with a group of girls that I met. I didn’t want to leave Whitney behind, but it was kind of just a natural progression. One night, when my boyfriend was home for the weekend I decided to just spend the weekend in my dorm catching up with Whitney, because I wanted to try to mend our friendship.

Well, that mending eventually turned into arguing. Whitney told me that it’s my fault she’s so miserable, and that the only reason she came to that school is because it was my top choice. I couldn’t believe she said that, I didn’t tell her to follow me to college.

So after that I put my head phones on and…