My roomate freshman year, Traci (as featured in my recruitment story:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=87635) was seemingly normal for a long time. We roomed togther the majority of freshman year, lived in our respective (yet competitive) sorority houses Sophmore year and then moved into together in an apartment with one other person, one of my sorority sisters - Shelly, our junior year. Sure Tracey and I would have squabbles, like her alarm going off and her sleeping through it, or my lack of ability to take out the trash (it was a far hike to the dumpster!), but all and all we got along swimingly and were close.
The first half of Junior year was fine. We were both dating guys in the same fraternity. However, in the winter of junior year - Traci went abroad for a few weeks (4-1-4 system, not quarters or semesters). Traci came back and accused her boyfriend (we'll call him "Jay") of cheating on her with one of my sorority sisters (we'll call her "Laura"). Laura and I were pretty close too and were serving on AXiD's executive board at the time. Jay and Laura vehemently denied the rumor - they were just friends, had the same major and had many classes together, and had the same work study for the few weeks Traci was away and thats why they were spending time together.
Spring term began and Traci lost.her.mind. She was so consumed with finding out if Jay was cheating on her with Laura she stopped going to classes, if she did go - she was failing the class, and she was a horror to live with. Traci used to accuse Shelly and I of "protecting" Laura because we were all AXiDs, and saying that we knew the truth and were trying to make a fool out of her, etc.
During this same time, I started to notice things disappearing - like I would swear I had $15 in my wallet, but when I would go back - I would only have $5 or I wouldn't be able to find my credit card for a few days and then it would appear magically.
What I didn't know at the time was that Traci's parents had cut her off financially except for tuitition, paying rent and bills. They gave her no spending money in hopes that she would pull her grades up.
By the end of the semester, Traci had failed out of school because of her obsession with Jay and the cheating and Shelly & I told her sometime before school ended that since she wasn't coming back to school in the fall, that we had arranged for someone else to move in. Telling her before school ended was a bad idea.
Shelly & I had went to an end of year sorority event and when we came back to the apartment, Traci's items had been moved out, but the place had been vandalized and trashed. Items were stolen out of both of our closets and she had written nasty things and her sorority letters (we don't know why) in permanant marker all over the apartment, furniture and carpeting. We ended up calling the police, but there wasn't much they could do since she was probably long gone. I know that the police called her parents, but because she was over 18 there wasn't much they could do with that either.
When word got out about what had happened to our apartment, Traci's sorority sisters actually came over and tried to help clean up some of the mess. They felt very badly that Traci had used their letters and written all over out things.
Our senior year, in the spring, Traci apparently showed up at her sorority house's bid day. They had her leave. Shelly & I did not see her, but when we heard, we took cover! She apparently also tried to get into the apartment, but the locks had been changed and my neighbor guys (in Jay's fraternity) chased her away. I never heard or saw her again. Although, she did try and become my facebook friend a few months ago and she was denied.
and in case you were wondering, it came out that Jay had been cheating on Traci with Laura. I swear I didn't know all of junior year! They were a couple my senior year.