Have you ever had a friend of friend's live with you for over a month? Well I have and I will say it is not as scary as it may seem. My friend Austin who I met last year in the dorms I became really close with. This year he decided to live in Brooklyn but while he was apartment hunting he stayed with us. Which was fine because we knew him but what he didn't know was that he also decided to have his friend "stay" with us too. At first he just said that he was coming for the weekend to out go to parties with which was fine. Little did we know he ended up staying with us for over a month.
Nathan at first was hard to be feel comfortable around me and my roommates. He is a very shy kid.
Needless to say it took him a while to warm up to us but eventually he did.
Over the month of him staying with me I've learned that he is a very interesting kid. He is 23 years old and has had a rough childhood. He was going from house to house, I could only imagine how hard it must be jumping from house to house and not having a stable place to call home. I felt so bad for him i just wanted to help but I truly didn't know how. All I could do was provide him with shelter. He was so grateful for everything we have done for him.
At first it was a bit awkward him living with us, we didn't anything about him. We weren't scared we were more curious about where he came from.
After a month of him living with us we all became really good friends. He had to leave because our landlord saw him staying here for weeks at a time and was not okay with that. It was sad to see him go but it was for the best.
He now lives in Brooklyn and have a 9-5 job. He definitely has his life together now and I couldn't be more happy for him. I still occasionally see him on weekends at parties, its good to catch up with old friends.
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