{OUTSIDE THE BORDERS}The silence in the housing office was really loud. I stared at the taped-up sign on the bulletproof glass, my heart sinking into the pits of my stomach.'CLOSED FOR STAFF RETREAT.''WILL REOPEN MONDAY MORNING.'"You've got to be kidding me," I muttered, the words a low hiss between my teeth."Problem, dear?" The older woman at the mail desk looked up, Her glasses were sitting on the tip of her nose.She gave me the kind of look usually set aside for students who had missed their tuition payments."No," I lied, my voice tight. "I just... I really needed to speak with the Dean. It's an emergency.""Well, unless your dorm is currently on fire, it will have to wait until Monday. Rules are rules."I opened my mouth to argue—to tell her that my dorm was on fire, just not in the way she meant—but I caught myself. I couldn't explain that my roommate was a crazy Alpha coach who had spent the morning marking the floor with hockey tape like a madman."Sorry," I mumbled, ba
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