After college, I lived with three housemates for a while. I’d gotten a job with a health insurance company that didn’t pay particularly well but was enough for the time being and I was just enjoying being single and still living a little bit like I was in college (a couple of my housemates still were. There were a lot of empty beer cans left out every weekend.)
One of my housemates had actually developed feelings for me, and she was pretty hot, but she’s not the subject of this story – the haters will be glad to know in this case I managed to act scrupulously and never took advantage of her feelings. We’ll call this friend M.