My Roommate Stole My Lucky Charm Bracelet

My roommate, Nora Simmons, liked to take advantage of others.

The emerald bracelet I brought from my hometown appeared on her wrist the next day.

I quickly asked her to take it off. "This is a lucky bracelet with a spell. If anyone else besides its owner wears it, it will only bring bad luck."

Instead of following my advice, she still wore it and accused me of being a stingy girl who cursed her. However, she fell down the stairs the very next day.

And she still blamed me for allowing her to wear my bracelet and bringing her bad luck. "Emily Foster, I broke my leg because I was wearing your bracelet. You must compensate for me!"

Maybe she thought the compensation would be of great luck.

Little did she know that her misfortune had just begun.

1

When I was about to graduate, my mother, Lila Scott, mailed me an emerald bracelet from my hometown.

The emerald on it was so pure and glamorous, emitting a soft luster.

But just when I went downstairs to pick up a takeout, the bracelet was on the wrist of Nora.

Striking the bracelet, she felt reluctant to take it off.

She hinted to me eagerly, "Emily, this bracelet fits me perfectly. Is it my birthday present?"

I was appalled. "Nora, it's a lucky bracelet. My mother bought it for me. It has been blessed with a unique curse that will bring anyone beside its owner who wears it bad luck! Take it off now!"

Nora was displeased immediately.

"What are you talking about? Stop trying to freak me out! I'm so unlucky to be sharing a dorm with someone like you." After saying that, she shook off the bracelet and threw it on my bed.

I quickly put the bracelet away.

Fortunately, she didn't throw it to the ground; otherwise, if it was broken, she would be doomed.

Lila sent me the bracelet with a special note, repeatedly warning me that I should keep it close to my body for fourteen days before I could wear it.

Therefore, I deliberately put it in the innermost pocket of my clothes.

But the next day, when I was changing clothes after swimming class, I found that the bracelet in my pocket was missing.

I quickly called my boyfriend, Riley Wilson, and asked him if he had seen my bracelet because he was the one who put my clothes in a locker near the pool and kept the key to it.

But he just kept changing the subject.

His reaction got on my nerves. "Did you take it? You can't wear it because it will make you unlucky..."

Before I could finish my words, Riley interrupted me irritably.

"Can you stop you being so suspicious all the time? I don't need your bracelet. You must forget where you put it." After saying that, he hung up the phone angrily.

But after searching every corner of the lockers in the locker room and my dormitory, I still couldn't find it.

Just when I was about to tell Lila in a down mood on the phone, I received a message from my best friend, Susan Edwards.

It was a very blurry video clip.

Susan: [Emily, is this guy in the video your boyfriend?]

My heart sank as I confirmed the man in the video was indeed Riley.

Although the video was taken from behind, I still recognized him at first sight.

Under the dim light of the restaurant's private room, he was sitting next to a girl, celebrating her birthday.

Judging from their intimate posture, they must have an affair.

Suddenly, I noticed that the girl next to him was wearing an emerald bracelet that was almost exactly the same as the lucky bracelet I lost.

The anger hit my brain so hard that I almost fainted.

I asked Susan if she knew the girl next to Riley in the video clip.

After typing for a long time, she replied: [Don't you think this girl looks familiar?]

I looked carefully and almost fainted again.

It was Nora.

I suddenly recalled that today was her birthday, and according to her habit, she would have returned to the dormitory now.

But today, she didn't return to the dormitory until midnight.

As a dance student, Nora transferred to our dormitory in the second semester of her sophomore year.

With her smooth skin, cute appearance and slim figure, she had a gift to attract others' care.

Our teacher asked me to take care of her since she came from a poor family, so I always shared my snacks and drinks with her.

But I didn't expect that this habit would make Nora feel that she could treat whatever belonged to me as hers.

She even wore the emerald bracelet Lila sent me on her hand openly.

Meanwhile, she stuck to Riley and me with an excuse to save more money on meals.

But she was already a wellknown dance host on the Internet and could totally afford good meals herself.

At that time, I thought she was just used to eating with me, but it turned out that she had been hooking up with my boyfriend for a long time.

I quickly took out my cell phone and called Nora, but no one answered the call.

Just when I was about to send her a message, her new post on Instagram popped up.

Nora: [My crush sent me the gift I have longed for. Double surprise!]

There were two pictures below.

One photo showed Nora leaning on a boy's shoulder intimately.

The other picture was her wrist, and what she was wearing on it was the lucky bracelet that I had lost.

To be honest, there were countless designs for a bracelet. But the unique decorative pattern on this bracelet made me so sure that it was the one Lila sent to me.

In terms of the pattern, I could conclude someone stole my bracelet and presented it to her.

And from the shoulder she leaned on, I knew he was Riley, who had been in a relationship with me for two years.

The bracelet I lost in the morning appeared on Nora's wrist now.

Obviously, Riley stole my emerald bracelet to please her.

Or maybe she asked him to steal it from me since she couldn't just take it away from me so blatantly.

The irresistible rage surged from my heart.

His oath that he would only be loyal to me was shattered by himself the moment he cheated on me with my roommate.

It was so disgusting that such a bastard actually existed in the world.

No matter what, I had to get the bracelet back first before anything terrible happened to her.

But Nora didn't return to the dormitory all night, and none of our roommates could get in touch with her.

I just sent her a message.

Emily: [Nora, what you are wearing is the lucky bracelet that was linked to me with a spell. It will indeed bring bad luck to any other wearer than me. I didn't mean to scare you because what I said was all true. Please return it to me now. Otherwise I can't help you if something bad really happens.]

But unexpectedly, neither did Nora return it nor was she willing to receive my messages again.

The next day, at noon, I finally managed to see Riley at the entrance of the teaching building.

Without further ado, I directly showed him the photos from Nora's Instagram.

Being stunned for a moment, he still refused to surrender.

He said, "Emily, I don't know what you mean with this photo, but she is merely a friend of mine. Besides, every bracelet looks like that. Isn't it too suspicious for you to accuse me with a blurry photo?"

I rolled my eyes and clicked the video Susan sent to me.

Riley's face was visibly pale.

"Why did you spy on my life? I just celebrated her birthday! There were other people at her birthday party, and you can't prove I cheated on you with a single photo," he said.

I laughed. "I wonder whether you can still be so confident after watching the whole video."

At the end of the video, Nora kissed him on the face as if no one was around, and he did not avoid it but hugged her tightly in his arms.

As the video approached its end, Riley fell dead silent.

However, Nora suddenly appeared and stood in front of him. "Emily, don't think you can do whatever you want with your money. If Riley had been unable to pay the tuition, he wouldn't have been with an ugly bitch like you."

"I'm telling you, his true love is me. He endured the disgust and stayed with you for two years. For two years, to please you, he has lived like a slave. Isn't that enough? Now you are embarrassing him in public. You are going too far," she added.

Riley hurried to stop her from blurting out his true intention, but Nora spoke even louder.

I looked at him with disappointment on my face.

"Riley, do you really think so?" I asked.

Without responding to me, Riley might just want to save face for himself in front of Nora.

I snorted coldly. "In that case, I'll break up with you."

I hired a lawyer and got back all the money I had spent on him in the past two years.

Since he didn't have so much money to repay my debt, he probably begged Nora to use the money she got from the SuperChats.

But even though she helped him pay back all the money, she didn't return my lucky bracelet.

After I waited in the dorm for a week, Nora still didn't come back.

I had no choice but to wait in the dance classroom, and finally, I saw Nora, who had just finished class.

She was still wearing my lucky bracelet.

Maybe it was out of illusion, I surprisedly found the emerald turned a little cloudy.

Facing my question, Nora was not at all flustered.

She raised her wrist and showed it off to me proudly.

"You're right. Riley sent me this bracelet as my birthday gift. Oh, by the way, he also gave himself to me, and we are already living together."

"I just don't want to give it back to you. What can you do? Do you have any proof that it belongs to you?" After saying that, Nora laughed triumphantly.

I clenched my teeth with rage.

"Nora, we used to be roommates, and I don't want to see you end up in some miserable situation. Before everything is too late, give it back to me!" I said.

Nora wore that arrogant smile.

"This bracelet is bought by my boyfriend. I have the receipt and invoice. How can you say it's yours without any proof?" As she spoke, she took out the receipt from her bag and waved it in front of me.

It seemed that she was determined not to return my bracelet.

Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, I asked her after a momentary silence.

I said, "Nora, it's my last warning. Anyone else except its real owner wears it will be stranded in bad luck. Please return it to me now."

Nora rolled her eyes. "What's your problem? If you curse me like this again, I will call the police."

Since she insists on keeping things that don't belong to her, there was nothing I could say.

Nora was a dance streamer with one hundred thousand fans. Usually, in addition to dancing for her sponsors and asking for SuperChats, she also shared her daily life while streaming.

That night, I opened TikTok and happened to see her talking about the bracelet with chats.

"My roommate might suffer delusions. She insists that I took her bracelet. It's clearly a gift from my friend, and I even have the receipt. But she claimed that it's her lucky bracelet that will bring bad luck to me..." she said.

Her audience were all irritated by what this slender young girl had suffered and all began to comfort her by cursing me.

Netizen A: [Nora, your roommate may target your bracelet. You'd better be careful in case she will steal it.]

Netizen B: [It's so funny. She thought the police would do nothing about that?]

Netizen C: [Maybe she is just a lunatic. Some girls nowadays are just vain and materialistic.]

Among these comments, there was one that was particularly different.

Netizen D: [What your roommate said was true, girl. If it is not yours, you'd better return it to its real owner so as to dispel the bad luck that is coming to you now.]

If I were Nora, I would probably suspect that this comment was posted by me.

But I really didn't do anything.

Her fans were all discontented about this comment.

Netizen A: [Nora, is this your roommate with delusional disorder? I can't believe she pesters you while you're streaming. This is too scary. Just call the police.]

Netizen B: [That's right. Maybe she is a psycho.]

Nora pretended to be frightened. "Thank you, guys. I will call the police as soon as I end the live stream today."

The next time I saw Riley and Nora was in the school cafeteria.

Riley was carefully helping Nora peel the shrimp shells, then put the shrimp meat into Nora's plate with a doting look on his face.

I remembered he did the exact same thing when we just started dating.

He pampered me like a child.

At that time, I was sure that he was the person I wanted to spend my whole life with.

But three months later, he was no longer so careful and considerate to me.

I happened to get my finger injured, and the doctor told me not to touch water for a week.

The impatient expression on his face was so clearly engraved in my brain when I asked him to peel an orange for me.

"My hands are for playing the violin. What if I get hurt peeling an orange?"

But he seemed to have forgotten that his violin, worth 200 thousand dollars, was a birthday gift I bought for him.

I realized maybe he had been cheating on me with Nora at that time.

My appearance didn't frighten her at all. Instead, she deliberately put the shrimp into her mouth gracefully, with a showingoff look on her face.

"The one who is not loved is the mistress. Someone just thinks she can buy everything, but she doesn't know she can't buy true love no matter how rich she is.

While saying that, Nora deliberately swung the emerald bracelet on her wrist.

She was showing off to me that even if the bracelet on her wrist was mine, I still couldn't do anything to her, just like I had no choice but to give up when she stole my man.

Looking at them, I suddenly felt a little sick.

I really wanted to persuade her again to give the bracelet back for her safety. However, since she was so determined to incur the curse, the only thing I could do was to respect her choice.

Besides, I also wanted to see how unlucky she could be after breaking the mysterious rule of this bracelet.

Her karma came quickly. One night, Nora was livestreaming her graceful dance to her sponsors when she fell down the stairs accidentally.

Immediately afterwards, she went offline, and I knew something serious had happened to her.

As expected, early the next morning, I saw news about her on the school forum.

Student A: [Have you heard that Nora from the Department of Dance fell from a building during a livestream and was sent to hospital?]

Student B: [Really? Dancers care the most about their appearance. Maybe she'll never be able to dance again in the future.]

Student C: [I don't know, but I heard that her boyfriend had been waiting outside the operating room for twentyfour hours.]

Student D: [Tsk, you're too naive. It's said that the lease of the house they lived in together expired, and her boyfriend couldn't afford the rent, so he went to ask Nora for money in the hospital. I even want to dance like a slut like her to make more pocket money.]

With all sorts of gossip on the school forum, I was too confused to discern which of them were true.

However, it was another roommate of mine, Charlotte Mason, who shared the most accurate gossip with me.

She said that the surgery cost a lot to fix Nora's broken leg. Still, she couldn't dance for so long a while.

When Riley found out, the first thing that came to his mind was not to care about this poor young girl, but was upset because she couldn't make money by live streaming her dance.

They had lived a luxuriant life after messing around with each other, and Nora was the billpayer all the time.

In order to defeat me, she also tried hard to act tender and generous in front of him.

In fact, it was just her disguise.

While she was resting in the hospital to heal her broken legs in a blue mood, Riley urged her to give him money several times, which irritated her to fight with him in her ward.

Riley was also so angry that he had been cutting classes to spend time playing around with Nora.

But in the end, what was left in their relationship were complaints.

As they quarreled in the hospital like two crazy people, many people recorded their fight and uploaded it on the Internet.

Now, everyone knew that the pure and charming dance streamer Nora actually used her sponsors' money to feed her loser boyfriend.

I wondered what her sponsors would react to this shocking truth.

The model couple in our school had a huge fight today over a few thousand dollars.

Their socalled true love was as frail as paper.

However, though I wanted to stay out of the trouble, the trouble still came to me.

After dinner, I planned to read some books in the library.

But someone grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the library angrily the moment I sat down.

I was so scared, thinking about whether I was assaulted by a criminal. However, it turned out to be Riley.

He pointed at me angrily. "Emily, did you tamper with that bracelet? Nora has never had any problems with her livestream, so why did she fall down the stairs this time? There must be something wrong with the bracelet on her hand. You must be resentful of Nora for taking me away, so you deliberately found this way to retaliate against her, right? How can you be so vicious?

"Besides, Nora and I used to get along well, but recently we've been arguing all the time. Even my classmates are causing me trouble. It's all your fault!

"You must be jealous that Nora stole your things, so you tampered with the bracelet to break her leg. She can't stream during this period. You have to be responsible for the medical expenses and losses!"

Riley seemed to be extremely upset, wanting to pass the buck of their conflicts to me with incoherent words.

I was amused as he illogically unleashed something ridiculous.

"Didn't Nora say that you bought her bracelet as a birthday gift? She refused to admit that it was my bracelet before, so why should I be blamed for her shit? Riley, as my boyfriend, you not only cheated on me, but you also stole my bracelet and gave it to your mistress. Now that she is in trouble, you still want me to take responsibility? Don't you think you're so shameless?"

While Riley was still thinking about how to refute me, I slapped him in the face.

He got so furious after being beaten by me that he tried to hit me back.

Meanwhile, I quickly shouted to the teacher on duty not far away on the first floor of the library, "Help! He's going to hit me!"

Since there were quite a lot of students studying in the library at night, more than a dozen students passing by surrounded Riley and me, including several from our department.

After learning what he had done to me, everyone began to criticize him.

Riley was too embarrassed to stay here any longer. He could only glare at me and left in a hurry.

Fearing that the bracelet would cause a bigger problem, I sent a message to Riley: [I'm warning you one last time. Hurry and give my bracelet back. Otherwise, you will be in trouble.]

But unexpectedly, as soon as the message was sent, Nora called me.

She said hysterically over the phone, "Emily, what's wrong with you? Riley bought that bracelet for me. I've told you countless times, but why are you still pestering him? Please stop disturbing our lives, or I will call the police!"

After saying that, she hung up the phone angrily.

I had to say I had never seen someone as stupid as her.

Even Riley felt that there might be something wrong with the bracelet.

But Nora insisted on refusing to give it back.

When she first moved into our dormitory, she was known for taking advantage of others.

Even if he made some money from live streaming now, the habit of taking what belonged to others was ingrained in her heart.

Nora's accident was indeed just the beginning.

A few days later, Riley and Nora started quarreling again.

Our school set up a foundation to help students in need, and even Riley's life was greatly improved. He still got money from the foundation every year because the person in charge of registering and auditing the application for the funds came from the same city as Riley.

Meanwhile, she was also the President of the Students' Union, Kelly Jones.

As soon as Nora's legs got a little better, she ran to Kelly's class on crutches to cause trouble, arguing that she seduced Riley.

Kelly turned deaf to her accusation because every time Riley received the support of the foundation, he would give her some money as reward.

If she and Riley were put in the vortex of everyone's attention, they might discover she sought private gain through power. In the end, she would even be expelled.

But Nora was so paranoid that she wouldn't let go of this matter.

She even pulled Riley and Kelly in front of the library to interrogate if they were together behind her.

Although they didn't have an affair, there was indeed a secret between them.

Compared to letting everyone else know his scheme to defraud financial support from the school, he chose to admit that he had cheated on Nora and fled from their shared apartment.

He left the mess to the girls, thinking he would be fine as they were busy scratching each other's faces with nails.

But that night, Nora started live streaming again.

Her leg injury hadn't healed yet, so she could only chat with her audience.

However, what she went through in the last month made her look completely different in front of the camera.

Before, she had smooth skin, a slim figure, and watery eyes that looked like a fabulous lake.

But now, even with heavy makeup, she couldn't hide the fatigue in her eyes.

The dark circles under her eyes almost filled her entire face.

Even her audience also noticed something was wrong.

Netizen A: [What happened to you, Nora? Why do you look so tired? Did you not get enough rest? ]

Netizen B: [Yeah, shouldn't you look better after resting for a month? Why does she look like she hasn't had a good night's sleep for a long time? ]

Nora looked at the judgements with hollow eyes.

She said, "I don't know why, but I feel like I've been particularly unlucky lately.

"I fell down the stairs during a stream before, and I thought it was just an accident. It was not until later that I realized that things were getting more and more weird.

"Since then, nothing I do has gone well. I got hit by chandeliers in shopping malls, and my car got scratched, and even when I went to a beauty salon for a skincare treatment, the equipment went out of control and almost disfigured me.

"Also, people around me also went crazy lately. Friends who used to be very close to me have been quarreling with me every day. My upstairs neighbor even accused me of stealing his packages, but I didn't. The most outrageous thing was that I came home in the middle of the night and saw a strange man lying on my bed. I was so scared that I called the police, but when the police came, they found nothing."

Nora was in a bad mood. When she recalled all of the unlucky events, she seemed to be caught by some bad memories, and her eyes were full of fear.

The audience started giving advice to her.

Netizen C: [Did you develop posttraumatic stress disorder after being injured? I had this problem before, and it took a long time for psychological counseling at the hospital for me to get better.]

Netizen E: [Or do you get high?]

Netizen F: [Why not take a trip and let nature heal you?]

Among all the comforting comments, someone posted a weird text.

Netizen D: [The reason you are so unlucky is because you are wearing someone else's lucky bracelet. Return it to its owner immediately, or you will continue to be unlucky to a lifethreatening extent.]

I noticed that this person's ID was Wind, and it seemed that he was the same netizen who warned Nora last time.

Who was this guy?

As soon as others saw his comment, he was besieged by Nora's fans.

Netizen A: [What's wrong with him? Can't you see how terrible she looks now? It's not the time to tell spooky stories.]

Netizen B: [That's right, and didn't Nora call the police last time? Why is he still on this channel? You should block him now, Nora. ]

Wind: [Just do as I told you. Return the bracelet before it's too late. ]

The next second after this comment was posted, Nora cut her stream.