Personal Narrative: My Junior Year In College

I think it’s weird how water looks almost black under frozen lakes. When it’s warm the water seems so friendly and inviting, but during the winter it’s almost ominous.
“I just don’t feel the same way about you anymore, Aleksei” that’s definitely the worst thing anyone has ever said to me. It feels like it didn’t happen, but at the same time it feels like it’s the only thing that’s happened all week. Everything else is just jaded by those words. This was my first day of my junior year in college, I’ve been living with my boyfriend, Noah, for almost two years. It would have been two years tomorrow, I think. I came back to our apartment today for my lunch hour and found him sitting at the counter in silence, it felt colder in our apartment. The air made me feel uneasy, I remember that. I don’t remember much of anything from our conversation, it was a hello, I …show more content…
My second thought was to go back to work but they would just tell me to go home because I’m too upset to work. Which just circles us back to the first problem. I decided to just keep driving, I would find a place to go eventually. I ended up driving out of the city and onto more icy roads, I could hardly see past my own tears, let alone the snow that had begun to fall. After what felt like maybe ten minutes I could hardly see anything because of how heavy the snow was, my eyes felt so tired but I still couldn’t stop crying. I felt like a broken faucet. Then the next thing I remember is that I was somehow driving on the wrong side of the road, I guess I hadn’t really noticed, but I did after the repeated loud honking of the car driving towards me. The sudden noise snapped me back to reality for a second, I felt like I was floating outside of my body somewhere between reality and fantasy and then suddenly yanked back into my body by that car horn. My instinctive reaction was to swerve out of the way as fast as I could, the whole landscape turned to a white and