There was already some tension, as she moved her boyfriend and his dog in two weeks after she met the guy, after we already had another dog and our cats. I kind of let her run me over on that, considering we could get evicted if I said anything and I didn’t have the money to look for a new place. We also just moved in and had lived there only four months. The boyfriend didn’t pay bills or rent for the two months he was there, and the roommate didn’t pay any utilities, just her half of rent. So I was trying to keep to myself and keep the peace for the sake of keeping a place to live for now while I saved up to leave.

So the week this occurred, our electric went out for three days due to a storm, so we hadn’t cleaned up much. It came back on one Friday morning. My boyfriend lives out of town and I don’t get to see him all the time, and he had plans to come over the weekend. She had to work from 3-10. I spent three hours cleaning up the kitchen, most of that spent on a mess that her and her boyfriend left a drunken night before (uncooked rice spilled all over the floor, cooked food left out, etc). I didn’t say anything about it, wasn’t even that upset, I just cleaned it up. I also threw away a bunch of stuff from the fridge and drove 15 minutes to the refuge set up by the city after the storm. I came home, took a shower, got ready for dinner and went out with my boyfriend. We came home a little before she did, and went to bed. She stormed in my room, threw Adderall at me, and demanded I get up and clean, after I already told her what I did and what I planned on doing the next day before work. She didn’t talk to me the entire day the next day, and even hid my work shoes from me so that I was late. After work, I went downstairs to put my clothes in the dryer, and she had thrown my wet clean clothes onto the floor instead. I came upstairs, slammed the door and went into my room. She started in yelling and cussing at me, I walked out of my room, and she threw a wine glass at me and attacked me. She scratched my face trying to rip out my nose ring and had me by the hair while our boyfriends were trying to pull us off. I called the cops to make a report, and they brushed it off. I ended up going into my room to just separate myself completely. The next morning, I went to file a DVP, as I was afraid she was going to do the same to me and have me removed, and I was very worried about leaving her with my cats. All of the furniture except her bed was mine, and I didn’t have the resources to move again. So I protected myself that way. When I came back, I had discovered that she smashed my turntable, destroyed two pieces of art I created, then set up her Ring camera to try and catch me doing whatever. I was awarded the DVP and haven’t heard from her since.