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"Well," Tom says snobbishly, "it’s clear no one in this suite cares very , do they?"

The doors to 401B and C are both wide open, the roole beds stripped, their walls, like the walls of the common room, bare No one has lived in thele," Tom says He doesn’t bother to whisper There’s no way anyone could hear us over that et your own room and only have to share a bathroouys"

Steven is of a different opinion "But that view?" He points out the s of the unoccupied rooirl She’d have been better off losing it in a car with the captain of the football team back in her ho roravel-strewn rooftop, i next door to Wasser Hall are so close that, if the s opened, residents could go out onto the roof and sunbathe

"Let’s do this," Pete says He looks angry, perhaps thinking about his own daughters after Steven’s remark

"Allow me," I say and stride up to 401A to pound on the door with my fist

"Residence hall director," I yell in order to be heard over theus, once again, to sue her "Mr Bigelow? We know you’re in there Please open the door"

There is no response I pound again, harder this tiet? It’s me, Heather Wells, from Fischer Hall You aren’t in trouble" She is in so et does know ave the rock-and-roll tour She’d even asked a question She’d wanted to knoe could go to that store where Madonna bought the jacket in theSusan My answer, sadly, had been no That store, Love Saves the Day, had shut down due to the landlord’s having raised the rent so outrageously It is now hoet?" I try the knob The door is locked

If Simon or the assistant hall director had been at work, we’d have had one of them escort us up here with the o in If I’d had any luck finding so, I’d have asked them for the key to 401A But the only person in Wasser Hall who had access to the key cabinet, I was inforo back downstairs and ask the desk to call the building engineer?" I ask Pete worriedly "Surely he’ll have a master key, or at the very least a drill to take out the core--"

Pete puts his hands on ently out of the way

"Allow me," he says And then, in a voice that is much deeper than the one he usually uses, he bellows, "This is New York College Ca You have until the count of three to open this door or I and my fellow officers will knock it down One Two--"

There is a sound of breaking glass Not like a single drinking glass breaking because so because soh it

"Ohto my face What have we done?