When Jessica returned to Brentano Hall, she discovered someone had broken into her attic hovel and rifled through her stuff.
Panicked, she ran straight for the desk, opened the bottom drawer, but there it was, right where she’d left it, her computer.
Student papers were scattered all over the room, and her great-grandmother’s dresses had been thrown out of their box into a pile.
As she folded the dresses and then gathered the papers, she wondered how this week could get any stranger. The fact that the burglar didn’t take anything made it even creepier.
Maybe she should move over to Lolita’s dorm room and sleep on the floor next to Emo’s bed. Or maybe she could stay with Amber in her tiny studio apartment and put up with permanent-fixture Jack.
Was Jack okay? He’d drunk her latte and t
