False Mercy
Language: en
My roommate was a preachy bleeding-heart. On our very first day of college, she snatched my electric bug zapper right out of my hand. "Mosquitoes are living creatures too. How can you be so cruel as to kill them?" That night, she threw all our dorm windows wide open, claiming she wanted to leave a door open for the lost little souls outside. I was bitten so badly that I developed a high fever from the allergic reaction. My eyelids swelled so much I could barely open them. But when I tried to hang a protective mosquito net over my bed, she tore it down, sobbing hysterically. "How can you be…