I can’t seem to go to sleep now. The only difference is that today I know why. It was around 4 am when I heard my roomate pounding on my door. I told her to come in and she was exasperated. She then asked me if I was ok. I was confused as to why she was asking me this. It wasn’t until she told me she had just gotten back from her studio and when she tried opening the door there were two men downstairs. We checked on our other roomate and thankfully she was ok. Our best guess is that the men had just broken into our house. My roomate says that at first she was trying to look for her keys, but then saw that the door was wide open. She then saw two white big men walk right pass her. At first she thought they might be our friends or something, but then she froze up when she realized they were people none of us knew. Unfortunately, it was all pitch black and she wasn’t able to see their faces.
Thankfully nothing happened to any of us. We’re guessing they had just gotten into our apartment when my roomate got home. The blind to our window was gone and that’s how they got in. I called the police right away and we filed a report.
To say that I’m scared is a great understatement. I don’t know what to think now. I keep thinking, what if something had happened to one of us, what if they would have stolen something, what if we would have been hurt. What if they decide to come back again?
I don’t want to tell my mom because she worries enough as it is. I wish I could; I’m scared and don’t know whether to feel safe or not. Come to think about it, I had greater expectation about San Luis Obispo, now they’re lower than Oakland’s. To think that the guys just passed right through my roomate without hesitation scares me. Obviously these people knew what they were doing and it scares me that they might try something again.
The fact that there’s four of us living here, the fact we’re all girls, having someone be able to break into our apartment so easily, and knowing that this may happen again frightens me—I don’t know what we would do.
