~Ava
The building was practically deserted, halls dimmed to emergency lighting, the emergency faculty meeting still dragging on somewhere down the corridor.
I knew Lang’s office would be empty, the door unlocked, he was too disciplined to ever forget protocol, even in chaos.
I slipped inside, shut the door behind me, and didn’t bother with the light switch. The glow from the parking lot lamps striped the room through half-l open blinds, enough to see the neat stacks of papers, the closed laptop, the faint outline of his chair.
I felt electric. Untouchable. High on everything I’d done today and everything I still wanted to do.
I dropped my backpack, kicked off my shoes, and hopped up onto his desk right on top of his tidy lesson plans and color coded folders. Papers rustled under my t
