#432 Derik

When I created this one, it just reminded me of my friend's roommate. So, this friend, let's call him Phil, he had a room on the first floor of our dorm at college where we could sneak in late on campus so the RAs wouldn't see us drunk. Luckily, Phil would play video games until late, so it was not a problem for him. He shared that room with Derik. Phil didn't have many social skills, and I always wanted to protect the underdogs since school, but at the same time, I was never that good at having a huge group of friends or someone following me around wherever I went, so I found Phil his own crew and now that I think of it, I did the same while working in a company with all that networking thing and getting people off of my back even though they were just being friendly. WAIT? This isn't about me, it's about Derik!

So, I believe Phil, for the first time, could have someone to talk to and Derik had that style of "bullying you cuz I like you." So I was happy with Derik being his roommate as well. Derik was tall, 1.89 m, fun, could talk to you about anything. I think the difference between us is that he really enjoyed being around people and talked to EVERYONE, and he was a little taller. He made sure I remembered that through our time together. He was slim but ripped, in a natural way if that's a thing.

When I was sitting in the reception talking to the RA responsible that day, I knew he was coming because he was so tall that he would slap the top part of the door frame. And it would take him 3 seconds to turn the corner.

"3, 2, 1 – Hey Erico, Hey JP."

And before I could answer, "JP" said, rolling his eyes in a very frustrated way,

"It's PJ, Derik, PEEEEEEEEEEEH JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY."

Even though I talked to PJ a lot when he was working at the reception, I never knew what that stood for.

"What's up, Derik?" With a smirk on my face that I could disguise due to PJ's frustration, but it was actually a "He knows my name" smirk. Derik shrugged his shoulders, smiling at the same time.

"You coming to my room later to have a booze?" Derik said, lifting both thumbs close to his mouth doing a shoulder dance pretending to be drinking something out of them (👍👍) while opening the front glass door with his back.

"I am responsible for the dorm tonight, and you know we can't drink on campus." PJ loved to believe he was in control of "CAMPUS DUTIES." And before the door closed, while he was turning around to face the cold wind but sunny day, he said,

"I wasn't talking to you, Jelly Peanut 😜."

The only thing I could do was my "I am not so sure" face.

So, basically, one of those silent nights on campus, Phil called me,

"Erico, I need your help. Derik is so drunk, he took his clothes off and is sleeping on the floor. I am not sure if he is having a nightmare, or he feels like puking, and if I call PJ, he's gonna give him a NOTE. I didn't hear him coming in because I was playing and head my headphones on, not sure how long he is here... BLAH BLAH BLAH."

"Ok Dude, relax", I thought

I went downstairs so quickly, trying not to wake anyone up because everybody is so NOSY on campus. There he was on the floor, naked, only Phil's PC lighting up the room with.

Don't want to make this longer but he left campus to go to the army (that was very anticlimax for my story) so after that he could cover his colleges expenses but I could definitely talk about other episodes.

-E