#Chapter 35: Spiders

Audrey It was nearly midnight by the time I stumbled down the hallway toward my room; the other dorms were raucous and lively, music thumping through the walls. A typical noisy Friday night, meaning that sleep would elude me. Although, if I was being honest, I didn’t think that sleep would have come easily even if the dorms had been utterly silent. I kept replaying the incident in Edwin’s office over and over again in my mind, going over every little thing he had said and done. The pizza. The whiskey. Two truths. My virginity. Sexual pointers. An engagement. And a lie. The thought of it all made me shudder, and in that moment, I made a pact with myself: I would not put myself in a position with him like that again. We were professor and student, nothing more, and it was inappropriate. I should have just refused the day off and taken a stack of papers back to my dorm to grade over the weekend. It would have been better for both of us that way. When I