Now that the subleasing agreement was signed and my last box of belongings was in my bedroom, it was official! I was a tenant of Apartment 202, and it would be my home with Gray for the next eleven months, three weeks and two days (at most). A very specific amount of time, but that was the remaining term from the twin's original three-year lease agreement.

I smiled at my roommate who was sitting on the still-bare mattress in my new room. Her layered, mid-length dark auburn hair was partly sticking to her face because of the sweat she'd built up while helping me move in. She tucked some strands...