Michael Arrives

A man walks in the diner. Around my height, brown hair, pretty handsome, normal looking guy. He's wearing a slick collared shirt and some blue-jeans. He's got a couple forearm tattoos, but nothing crazy or out of place in a college town. Cassandra recognizing him immediately from his profile photos, and cheerily waves him over.

"Hey, I'm Michael." he says, extending his hand for me to grab. I introduce myself, standing in the booth to shake his hand. He gives the same courtesy to my girlfriend, making eye-contact with both of us as we meet & greet.

We chit-chat, talking about the weather, the town, the diner, things like that. Michael is from the area, deciding to go to school after a distant relative passed away, leaving him enough money for school and housing for the next few years.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your aunt!" Cassandra says, giving a slightly pouty face.

"No, no, it's okay. I knew her when I was a kid, she didn't have children of her own, and I was the only one she seemed to like when she passed. She was pretty mean to the rest of the family. Still, it was very nice of her to leave anything to anyone, and I figured using it to go to school was the smartest option." Michael says, smiling.

Michael mentions that he's got a girlfriend. They've been dating for a few weeks, now, so she wouldn't be moving in with him or anything soon. We talk about that eventual possibility if he ends up being our roommate, and he assures us he wouldn't leave us hanging if it came down to him moving out or her moving in.

We talk about hobbies, and it turns out we both play a lot of the same games, watch the same shows, things like that. Michael seems like a pretty cool guy, and him mentioning being able to buy beer for the house really helps his case. He says he's met a few other people wanting roommates, but most of them were kinda weird, seemed sketchy, or had a filthy house.

"Well, baby, what do you think?" Cassandra says, smiling at me, clearly having already made up her mind about our potential new roommate.