Roomie

She doesn't know many things, like how to mail a certified letter with a return receipt. However, she has a great credit score which helped me with getting the apartment. (She hasn't been here long enough to screw her credit maybe).

She wears perfect makeup every day before leaving the house. I don't do that.

She is clean. No, she is immaculate and organized. I am not and slowly, I can see her turning into a slob like me. (Oops)

She is lonely and at nights, she probably cries in her bed for the family and the memories she left behind.

She hates her father, who left her mother when pregnant with her.

I love my father who has stayed through thick and thin, and can not imagine my world without him.

Her mother was headstrong, worked full time and still does, and raised two daughters on her own.

My mother never had a real job outside the house, full time. My mother can barely function in her daily life without my father.

We are really different but somehow the Universe brought us together and recently, we have become family.

I have replaced the family she left behind, and she has replaced that family that left me.