Roommates in transition

Leina, who was living alone when this blog decided to track her comings and goings, picked up Angie as a roommate a few months later. This helped with her bills and allowed her to maintain the lifestyle she preferred without working more than 4 hours a day. Angie originally came to Leina for short-term transitional housing, but it was a good enough experience that Leina and Angie are now roommates indefinitely.

Starting Tuesday, however, Leina will have a second roommate, Nicole. Nicole has been friends with Leina for awhile. Nicole is an Aptos Posse member, has received rides from Leina, and once showed up to Stephen Dodson's birthday party at Element where she and Erica and Tony and Omid waited for a long time but Stephen Dodson never showed up. Nicole is also in need of short term, transitional housing, and her rent plus Angie's would allow Leina to quit her job for Mr. Turner and live off her roomers, but Leina will not.

Concerned that she will have to vie for Leina's attention now that there will be another attractive young woman living in their house, yesterday Angie went and broke her arm playing softball. Leina was duly sympathetic, and for the next few weeks will help Angie with such chores as digging her keys out of her purse and buttoning her pants.