Cleaning the Apartment (a clipped part of a short story) Staring at the huge mess, I wondered if I made the right decision to rent the apartment with her. Everyday it was getting harder and harder to live with her to the point that the cheap rent was getting pointless. She kept expecting me to do the clean up all the time simply because I paid a lot less rent than her and that it was my sole responsibility to keep the apartment livable. Slacking a bit, I would risk her nagging me about not helping at all. Taking off my soaked jacket and throwing my backpack on the only empty sofa in the room, I finally decided that it was a lot better to start working on the mess already instead of wasting my time getting worked up over the injustice. It was my fault being born poor after all. It took me two hours to get the place clean, and my back felt burning due to the scrubbing I had to do. Feeling thirsty I decided to have a glass of water before going to bed. Opening the fridge, I noticed that Sujin and her friends already ransacked the fridge to the point that pretty much nothing would be edible from it. And of course, no water for me, even when most of the grocery was bought with my money. Before I could control it, I lost my small control over my anger and threw the glass in my hand into the floor. It shattered into pieces.