Chapter 63: Aiden Calls
June 20
The sun stayed hidden behind gray clouds, and it rained all day. Flooding started to occur in the Reslow area, next to the Ohio River. Thunder buzzed across the heavens, and lightning illuminated the sky like a vintage Lite Brite, flashing off and on. It looked morose outside my office at Doonmyer Hall, somewhat frightening and melancholic.
I couldn’t believe how long it could rain, hours upon hours. At ten after six in the evening, it hadn’t stopped. Another bolt of lightning crashed on campus. Doonmyer Hall’s lights flickered off, on, off again, and then finally on. I jumped in my office chair, and the tip of a green pen in my right hand skied across a student’s essay in front of me on the desk, making it look as if a three-year-old had scribbled over i
