First impressions can be dangerous things when they're wrong, but with some people those misperceptions can be quickly corrected...

He caught me unaware as I walked into our dorm room, grabbing my right arm and pulling it back and up.

“OW! God damn it, what’re you doin’?”

“Just want to give you a piece of good advice. Here’s what’s going to go down around here. I don’t take no shit off of nobody, got it?”

“Uh!” I twisted my body to the right, easing the pain in my arm a bit, lifted my right leg and slammed the heel of my boot down onto his instep. The pain caused him to release my arm, and I slammed my elbow up into his chin.

“Shit!” He pulled away from me. “Why’d oo do ‘at? I’m bleedin’, oo made me bite my toong.”

“I don’t like to be threatened, man.”

He looked at me. “Troose, okay?” He stepped into the bathroom and I heard him spit, then he returned.

“Tell me, what the fuck was all that about? Why’d you try to break my arm?”

“Sorry. Yoo looked like a badass, I fingered yoo’d need soom talkin’ down.” He grinned, and I saw it hurt him.

“I guess I don’t.”

“Nope. Friends?”

“Okay, friends. Now you’d better go rinse your mouth.”

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