Chapter 13

After helping Ashley unpack her luggage, Lance returned to his own empty dorm room. He did not sleep a wink that night. Outside the window, the sky shifted from pitch-black to pale gray while the dorm manager's words and the image of Sienna's empty wardrobe replayed over and over in his mind. When morning came, Lance suddenly shot up from his bed and put on his jacket. Then, he rushed to the academic affairs office. The staff there stared at his anxious face and flipped through the freshman enrollment roster. After she was done going through it, she shook her head. "As we have told you yesterday, Mr. Xenakis, there isn't a Sienna Coleman among this year's freshmen in the faculty of arts." "That's impossible!" Lance snatched the roster and skimmed through the pages himself. His finger slid rapidly from the first page to the last. Nonetheless, he didn't see even a name that vaguely resembled hers. Flipping the pages frantically, he said in a shaky voice, "We filled out the Southto