Chapter 12

The registration stand in the faculty of arts was packed with people. Lance squeezed inside and scanned every face one by one, yet he never found the familiar one he longed to see. He then went to the dorm building they had once agreed on and asked the dorm manager, who told him that there was no "Sienna Coleman" on the lodging list at all. It stunned Lance. A stronger wave of unease surged through him, and it was far more intense than before. Pulling out his phone, he tried calling Sienna again. The result was the same—she had blocked him. He tried her parents' numbers, but those, too, would not connect. "How… How can this be?" Lance muttered, his voice trembling. Could it be that she truly had given up on him and left? But what had he done wrong? Closing his eyes, he painfully replayed the recent events. In the alleyway, Sienna was cornered by thugs and called him 33 times. But he was with Ashley and "treating her illness" by kissing her. At the concert, Sienna was trampled b