Roommate [25F] is threatening to file a restraining order on me [24F] if I don't sign lease break or roommate release form by tomorrow because of onion smell in apartment

People are offering you great advice about small claims court and saving texts and emails as evidence, but I want to offer an alternative. I call it The Onion Contingency. Start by chopping onions up at odd times throughout the day. Get those tear ducts really flowing. Don't let her see you; rather, let her smell you. Replace the food in your refrigerator with various types of Allium. Fill your vases with umbles of onion flowers. After a few days of this begin to escalate. Hide onion bits wherever you can: place some in her purse, toss a few under her bed, grind some up and rub them into pillows. Get creative. At this point she'll be avoiding the home at all costs, but don't stop there. Throw a few in the wash with her clothes so the scent follows her everywhere she goes. Finally, when you think she's about to crack, sneak into her room at night and cover her head-to-toe with you-know-whats. Let her wake up in a pile of the grossest vegetable known to man. When she awakens she will undoubtedly confront you, but her confidence will be shaken when she walks down the hall to your bedroom and notices that the walls are completely plastered in printed stock photos of the big bulbous plants. As she slowly opens your bedroom door not knowing what she might find she'll sigh in relief when she sees you lying in bed asleep... only to find that the humanoid shape filling your clothes is actually another pile of onions! If you follow this advice perfectly your roommate will quickly see that you are not the sort to be trifled with and will leave you alone as a result.

For what it's worth, right now she's got nothing on you. She's signed a contract and she's trying to weasel out of it. I'd bet good money that she was an only child who never heard no, and not getting her way is killing her. She might be able to file for a restraining order if you follow my plan, but as it stands now you just have to stay firm and resolute that if she wants to leave then she has to go through the proper channels. Her job situation (which sounds like her real issue with the place) isn't your problem.

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