I guess I love my roommates
Tonight Jennifer made me feel like a mom.
After our American Idol festivities at Irvington Place Jennifer gave Autumn a ride home approximately one mile away from our house. Jennifer’s friend Kali is staying with us tonight, so they took Kali’s car and left. This was around 11:00 pm.
When they left I did a few things around the house. I went to Quik Trip, then I talked on the phone for a while with my door shut. I didn’t think much about the fact that the house was quiet, because I was busy talking on the phone. It wasn’t until I got off the phone at 12:30am and walked around my house that I realized Jennifer was still not home. I glanced around the house and saw that all of Kali’s spend-the-night things were still on the floor in our living room. I thought for a few minutes, and decided that they wouldn’t have spent the night at Autumn’s because they would need their things, and that would be silly. Jennifer is not the type of person to go out on the town at that time of night, especially when she has to wake up for school the next day, so I figured she wasn’t out partying or anything. She should have been home.
I would like to make it known here that I wouldn’t have worried at all or done anything to find Jennifer if I wasn’t completely convinced that by not being home she was being extremely unlike herself. I thought something was really wrong.
I called Jennifer twice and received no response. I also sent her a text message. I didn’t know Autumn’s number, or I would have called her. I called Kayla instead at 1:00 am even though I knew she would be sleeping. Approximately 15 minutes later, Kayla called me back and sounded very sleepy. I asked her if she knew where Jennifer was, and she didn’t. I told her I wanted to call Autumn but I didn’t have her number. Kayla said she would call Autumn and call me back. She never called me back.
After about 30 minutes I sent Kayla a text message. She never responded. I remembered that Maria lived in the apartment directly above Autumn, so I tried to contact her so she could go see if Jennifer was there, but she didn’t respond either. During this time I was talking to Evan online, and he was being sympathetic and helping me decide what I could do. He was being a good friend. I really didn’t have any ideas as to what might be wrong with them, I just thought it was strange that she wasn’t answering her phone. I thought she would hear it ring, even if she was sleeping somewhere else.
I got on Jennifer’s computer and tried to talk to BJ, because I figured Jennifer would have talked to him before he went to sleep. I figured she would have told him whether or not she was at Autumn’s. His away message said he was sleeping, and he never responded to me.
I thought about going to Autumn’s apartment complex, but I didn’t know her apartment number. I also didn’t know what Kali’s car looked like, so I couldn’t just drive around and look for it. I really didn’t see what more I could do. I felt helpless. I thought about waking up Jessica, but I knew there was nothing she could do, and that all she would do would be worry along with me. That didn’t seem like it would help anything.
I put this note on the bulletin board, and I decided I would try not to worry anymore and wind down for the night. This was at 2:30 am. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to sleep or not, but at that point I really didn’t know what else to do. I figured she would return at some point, and I just wanted to make sure she woke me up so I could stop worrying. At 2:41 am, my phone rang. It was Jennifer.
She and Kali had spent three hours talkign to Autumn, and she had left her phone in her car. After yelling at her for a few minutes, I was extremely relieved. I was happy that she was safe and coming back to Irvington. We laughed about it for a while when she got home, and I gave her and Kali both big hugs.
The end.