In my final year as an RA, there was a major influx of new students. The university struggled to find places to put them all. One of their action plans was turning some of the larger two-person rooms into three-person rooms. My boss actually asked for my help with choosing which rooms were big enough to support three freshmen. I was around, taking summer classes anyway, so I dropped by the dorm a couple times to help measure the rooms and give my insight on which room layouts were powderkegs and which were liveable. We did our best, but throughout the year, we did end up having to deal with more roommate conflicts than usual, and they trended toward the three-person rooms.
That year, I also had a new RA on the girls' floor below me. Her name was Cherie. She was 19, blonde, southern, and very sweet. She looked like Elle Fanning, but a little taller. I soon confirmed she had the same great ass as Elle, and 34A boobs with quarter-sized pink nipples. She was fairly shy about sexual matters, but eager to learn once she got started.
One day late in Autumn, Cherie approached me nervously. "Ethan, would ya mind helpin' me with an RA thing?" Cherie often came to me for assistance, as my room was so close and I had much more experience as an RA. I quickly agreed to help with whatever she needed. "It's one of my three-person suites. A roommate dispute. They want me to mediate, but, well, I'm as stumped as a hen in a fox house. I'd feel more comfortable with another RA in the room, for accountability."
"Oh, sure. We've been having more and more of those this year. I'd be happy to sit in and observe. I'll only step in when you need me to."
"OMG, thank you so much! Okay, so here's a quick rundown on the goings-on. See-"
"Actually," I held up a hand. "I'd rather not be biased before entering the situation. I wanna go in fresh as I hear both sides of the story. Er, all three sides of the story."
Cherie paused, skeptical. "Are ya sure? It's a strange one."
"I'm sure I've heard it all before. Or, at least, I'm sure I've heard something similar enough before."
"Okay! Thanks again, so much! We're gonna meet in their room, 216, at 7:00." Cherie told me.
"Perfect. That gives us enough time to run over to the dining hall first. Shall we?"
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"Are ya sure ya don't want a briefing on the situation?"
"I'm sure. Go ahead and knock on the door. Wait! Actually, just give me their names."
"Oh, good idea. Okay, the petite brunette is Erica. The brunette with the tits is Farrah. And the girl with the dyed blue hair is Tiffany."
"Great. Go ahead and knock."
Cherie knocked three times and the door quickly swung open to reveal a girl I assumed to be Erica. She was about 5'1", tan, shoulder-length curls, and what I'd estimate to be 32Bs. She was wearing a white sleeveless top, a pink bra I could see the sides and the straps of, and some denim shorts. She was cute and her round, cerulean eyes stopped me in my tracks.
Erica also stopped short as if she were surprised to see me. I realized that I had ferreted Cherie away right after she asked for my help, so she may not have had a chance to tell the girls I'd be coming. I stepped up to introduce myself. "Hi, I'm Ethan. I'm the RA on the next floor up. I'm just here to assist."
Erica flashed her big blue eyes at Cherie briefly and then back at me. "Ok, great! Thank you so much for coming. I'll take all the help I can get." She opened the door wider and let us in.
The room was dim: the overhead lights were off, but a couple lamps were lit in opposite corners of the room. The beds were back deeper into the room. Up close to the door, there was a living room setup, surrounding a cheap IKEA coffee table. Farrah and Tiffany were sitting on a mustard-colored loveseat. There was a turquoise squishy chair that I assumed Erica planned to sit in. Then there was one wooden stool, for Cherie I guessed. Erica dragged over a second stool to put next to the first, then took her seat in the turquoise chair. Cherie and I took our assigned seats. I noticed there was a bottle of wine and a couple half empty glasses on the table. In another setting, I would've been obligated to confiscate that contraband. In mediating roommate disputes, I sometimes looked the other way on alcohol. Light intoxication could get the various parties to open up faster. You just had to be careful that they didn't drink too much and escalate matters.
"Would you like some?" Farrah asked. She was quite striking. She was sitting, but I'd guess she was 6'0. She looked like she might be Turkish, based on her olive skin and deep brown eyes. I couldn't see much of her body, as she was wearing a Snuggie.
"No, thank you, but you go ahead." I answered. Cherie politely shook her head.
We all sat silently for a minute, waiting for someone to begin. I was looking at Cherie to kick things off and eventually she did. I could tell she was following the steps from our training manual with rote memorization.
"Ok, thank y'all for agreein' to this meeting. The first step in resolvin' conflict is talkin' about it. Now, Ethan's here to observe, but I haven't given him any sort of rundown on the happenins here. So, let's each take a turn explainin' our feelins and our goals for today. I'll start. I'm Cherie, I'm the RA, I feel happy to be a part of this effort to foster a better livin' situation, and my goal is to start a dialogue. Tiffany, you go next."
"Hi." Tiffany looked at me to introduce herself. She was the odd one out in this room. She looked to be about as tall as Farrah, but that's where the resemblance stopped. She was tall, fair-skinned, and edgy. Her hair was dyed an electric blue, but she also had shaved half her head. The blue side was straight and shoulder-length. She was wearing a black push-up bra (it's so difficult to tell with those, maybe a 28F?), black denim jeans she'd ripped into shorts, and thigh-high rainbow-striped socks. "I'm Tiffany!" College is an interesting place. Her bubbly personality didn't match her aesthetic at all. "I feel like everything is fine! Except that Erica is a bit of a wet noodle. But that's okay! We get along great most of the time. It's just every now and then, Erica gets kind of nosy or judgy." Tiffany turned to Erica now. "I'm just not sure what your deal is... if you wanna hang out with us, you're welcome to! But if you're not going to join us, I think you should just be respectful."
"Respectful!" Erica exclaimed. "It's you two, whenever I'm trying to study, who won't leave me alone! You're so distracting!"
Farrah spoke up, "Well, you could always go to a communal study room?"