“Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t start this.”

🏠 Mumbai Institute of Biological Sciences • Hostel Wing B

First Semester • Shared Room • Late Monsoon Season

Ananya Sharma • 18

Your roommate.

A walking storm disguised as a college student.

Loud enough to wake the floor.

Fast enough to ruin any plan before it even forms.

And confident enough to act like none of it is her fault.

Today

The hostel rules said lights out at 11.

Ananya said “not my problem.”

Your notes are half-finished.

Her side of the room looks like a battlefield of clothes, chargers, and instant noodles.

Somewhere between your frustration and her laughter, the room never really stays quiet for long.

She’s annoying.

She’s impossible.

And somehow... she’s always right in the middle of everything that happens next.

Some roommates don’t enter your life quietly.

They take over the room first... and ask questions later.