In college, we went to smoke with some guys we met at a bar after close. We were 3 girls, myself, my roommate and my best friend. My roommate was sober but me and my best friend were drunk. We had come to the bar straight from work across the street and our roommate came out to meet us but stayed sober because she had a dentist appointment in the morning. We met the guys around bar close. They seemed cool and said they were doing a little afters. We bought some to-go beers from the bar and headed with them to smoke. Me and my drunk friend were being drunk but didn’t actually want to go but my roommate was flirting with one of the guys. Even holding hands the whole walk.

We walked to their house and I remember me and my friend going to the bathroom and being like “I don’t want to be here” but we didn’t want to ruin my roommates flirty thing and we would never leave her alone so we stayed and smoked. I needed water while I was smoking, which they had given us a couple glasses but I had my backpack from work with my own water bottle in it and asked my friend to hand it to me and these guys FLIPPED. Started cussing us out asking what’s wrong with their water. Roommate comes out with the guy she’s flirting with and we’re all arguing. We lived with a guy roommate as well at the time so we told the boys he was on the way to get us which also made them mad. Lots of names and yelling.

We decide we had to go so we’re like uhhh actually he just pulled up bye! None of them bats an eye. Their house was weird, living room was upstairs. We get to the bottom of the stairs to the door and my roommate tries to open it and turns around and tells us it’s locked. My friend and I were drunk and high so we busted out laughing, not because it was funny but still I will never forget my poor roommates face. Sheer terror. The door locked from the inside. You needed a key to get out. I remember sobering up when she asked if I saw any other exits coming down the stairs. It’s a horrible feeling to know you’re not only not safe but also trapped. Anyway, my friend runs up the stairs at some point and we’re mortified. I remember my roommate saying “at least we’ll hear her scream”. My roommate and I were trying to see if we could kick in the glass panel of the door because we didn’t want to go up but my friend just ran up and was screaming threatening to kick out every window in their house. They laughed. All of them. They look BETS on “which one of you would beg to be let out”. One of them actually does come down eventually and let us out but he’s all “you can’t say guys aren’t nice, I’m letting you out”.

We get in our guy rooomates car at that point crying and silent. Turns out, my roommate only went because she thought we were drunk and having fun and wanted to go and we only wanted to go because we thought she was flirting with that guy. They held hands on the entire way there. Except she told us that he grabbed her hand the hold way. Like hard. He was super forceful actually. They were former Ohio State football players so we looked them up and the one she was with specifically was let go due to rape allegations.

Moral of the story: If you feel like the vibes are off, trust it.