The woman grabbed my arm, her voice trembling like I was her last hope. “There’s a huge cockroach in my room! Please, you have to help me!”
I blinked, trying to process what she’d just said. “A... cockroach?”
“Yes!” she exclaimed. “It’s enormous, and it’s hiding somewhere in there! I can’t go back until it’s gone!”
I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. Of all the things to be dragged out of my dorm room for... this? “Fine,” I muttered.
Without a second she dragged me down the hallway to her room, still clinging to my arm. When we got there, I couldn't believe my eyes. Her room was a disaster zone. Pillows were scattered on the floor, a lamp was leaning at a dangerous angle on the desk, and clothes were piled haphazardly on the bed.
“Where did you last see it?” I asked, scanning h
