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Jamie is slumped behind the front desk, still in her pajaazines since the post office will allow us to forward only first-class mail

"Hey," Jamie says in surprise when she looks up and seeshere?"

"Don’t even ask," I say "How did things go last night after I left?"

Jauess Wynona could probably tell you ly at Wynona, but she only shakes her head and says, "Mnal that she’s not ready to speak about it I turn back to Jamie

"Four service requests and one incident report," Ja the administrative forms from the residence hall director’s in-box "Looks like there was a leaky sink in 1718 The engineer on duty fixed it The rest of the stuff was kids asking to get the guards taken off their s so they could open them wider than two inches to take a picture of the fountain in the park Like that will happen Oh," she adds--and it’s an "Oh" that’s acco"

I do not like the sound of that

"What," I say flatly

"Well, it looks like a group of girls from one of the suites ditched their chaperone after she fell asleep and snuck downstairs--"

"What?" I de it As I do, ins to thump The form, which is in triplicate, has been filled out in blue ink by Rajiv--he was the resident assistant who’d been alerted to the situation--is extreirls are named The first name I see is Cassidy Upton

"Why?" I ask "Where did they think they were going to go? Didn’t we relieve theht?" This was a plan Lisa and I had hatched In order to keep the girls fro thee–issued photo IDs to the resident assistant on duty every evening That way, if they did sneak out, they’d have to notify the RA in order to get back into the building

"Yeah," Jairls didn’t leave the building They ran into some of the basketball players in the lobby--"

I drop roan "Don’t even tell me"

"I’m afraid so," Ja Jamie-- "that they e, and went to bed In separate rooms"

"I can’t," Janus, the really tall one? Well, he bought them some beer from that deli around the corner Then they all went downstairs to the game room to drink and play foosball and pool"