The Other

Prince Charming lives with two other boys. One is LadiesMan and the other is not. I don't know what to call the other one except for what he is. And in less graphic terms he would be a jerk. But the word jerk does not do him justice for the amount of slothful selfish angry crabby bitchy moany self-isolated flip you off and act like a total asshole just because I don't find you to my liking kind of attitude that this boy exhibits on the daily.

And EVERYONE who lives with him is sick and tired of the crap he gives us every hour of everyday. He blares his screamo music and plays video games non-stop. Last semester he missed so much class and didn't do so much homework that he had to drop a few classes because he 'couldn't handle the load.'

For whatever reason he hates me. I mean it. He. Can't. Stand. Me. And I don't know why. So I brought it up to him.

You want to know why this guy doesn't like me?

He has no reason.

None.

What so fricking ever there is no reason as to why he would rather stab needles in his eyes than talk to me.

No reason.

I don't understand. I don't get it. I mean, he can not like me, that's whatever. I don't really like him either. We have two different personalities that really just don't mesh at all. I can't do anything to change his mind about me. I'm totally at a loss.

He doesn't care. He has decided that it's perfectly okay for him to treat me like the scum of the Earth just because he doesn't appreciate my presence. It's perfectly acceptable for him to flip me off in answer to an innocent question.

I'll tell you my theory.

No one cares about him.

He says his mother let him watch rated R movies when he was five years old. He's been playing violent video games since his hands were big enough to hold the controller. He's voiced on occasion that there is some satisfaction to watching the life slowly drain out of someone's eyes as they die. He looks at porn on his computer. His mother, from what I've heard him say about her, has let him get away with pretty much anything because 'she trusts him.'

Tell me please, why some people are raised to believe that if they don't like you, they can treat you with less respect than a pile of garbage?

I asked him what he was going to do if he actually ended up graduating college and heaven forbid he got a job - what would he do if he didn't like his boss? Would he just treat his boss like crap?

He said yes.

I told him he's not going to be able to keep a job. He said he didn't care.

He just doesn't flat care.

About anything. At all. Whatsoever. And he has no reason why he doesn't care. He just doesn't.

His excuse is that "he's comfortable in who he is, and nothing anyone can say will change that."

Well let me tell you, people do care about how he acts. And the fact that he smells up the room with his trash he doesn't take out for weeks. LadiesMan has decided to get the heck outta Dodge but doesn't exactly know where he's going yet. Prince is wondering if he should do the same thing.

I mean, I don't know if I feel safe being in Prince's suite anymore. This guy, Other just scares me. He's a big guy. He threatens to kill people and talks as if he has no qualms about going after other people who he feels have done him wrong.

We're all worried he's going to break our things when we're not watching. This is no way to live. This is no way to behave. For any of us. It's not fair to the other boys who live here to have to put up with someone who is supposed to be a grown up, but won't even take care of himself.