First, let me say up front that everything’s under control, I’ve put in calls to some people who can help diffuse the situation, and while I haven’t called 911 yet, I’m prepared to if things continue to escalate. I think they will listen to me, no matter what my fucked-up roommate says.
The situation: I’ve mentioned before that I share a house with my younger half-brother, who is 27 and still going to college, which is an improvement since he’s never worked a real day in his life. (Aside from his so-called “business” which involved buying cars & computers off the Internet and attempting to sell them at a profit – but it’s my understanding that his so-called “partners” aren’t willing to work with him anymore.) He’s the type of kid who basically thinks the world owes him everything, and always demands “compromise” when he clearly doesn’t get the definition of the word. He doesn’t pay for rent or utilities, not even for Internet which is the ONLY thing I’ve asked him to pay for, and the sole reason I haven’t disconnected his wireless router is because I’m afraid he’ll go fucking psycho again. Anyway, enough backstory.
This afternoon, he came home from school and immediately complained that it was too hot in his room, since I was running the heater while he was away (as per our agreement, I will only run the heater while he’s not home, since he “doesn’t like it blowing on him” and he refuses to close the vent in his room.) For some reason, he got really agitated and voices were raised, he got on the phone to his Mom and then THREW COFFEE IN MY FACE while talking to her, and even confessed to her what he did. “I can do whatever I want!” was one of the lines he used, I recall. He also got very intimidating and threatened to headbutt me and knocked a lit cigarette out of my hand, but this happened while he wasn’t on the phone with mommy so she can’t verify that part.
Anyway, to wrap up, I’m pretty sure his threats are baseless, how he can call the police and make up a lie and they’ll take me away just because he says so, but he’s wrong about that, I’m positive that if the cops saw him in that situation all shaking & irrational (he’s calmed down a bit since then) that they would listen to ME instead of him, especially since I can tell them he’s attempted suicide in the past, although it was more than 10 years ago.
Last I overheard him in his room talking to someone (his mother, perhaps? or maybe one of his remaining friends?) about how he “has no place to go”, and “can’t live here anymore”, so with any luck he’ll accept reality and find a new place to live instead of constantly threatening to have his mommy cancel my lease and force me to move out – she wouldn’t do that, I even heard her say so while she was on speakerphone, even though we haven’t been on good terms recently. But maybe that will change soon? We shall see.
TL;DR: If someone throws coffee in your face and threatens to head-butt you, and knocks a lit cigarette out of your hand, that’s assault, right? Just wondering.
