Gwen's Observation In High School

Gwen fumbled with the sleeve of her sweater, trying to avoid eye contact with her residence assistant. She had practiced the words all night long. She had pieced together this speech instead of sleeping. She had sat up in the corner of the bed so that she could carefully observe every inch of the room. “Gwen just tell me what’s bothering you about the room.” Melissa, the RA, growing more impatient by the second, began tapping her nails on the desk. At first she seemed concerned when Gwen approached the front desk in the dorm lobby. Anyone would have been. It had been days since Gwen had gotten a decent night’s sleep and it had begun to show. The makeup was just barely covering the dark rings that had formed around her eyes but nothing could hide the lifelessness within them or the exhaustion in her figure as she dragged herself around the campus every day. Melissa sighed, “Gwen, we are in the middle of the semester. There are no rooms available for you to just move into. Not at this point and especially not until you have given me a reason.” She stretched her arms across the desk and grabbed for Gwen’s hand but she pulled it away from Melissa’s grasp quickly and wiped at the tears forming in the …show more content…
Making sure everything was as it was when she left. She looked long and hard around the entire room but there were no signs of moved or stolen objects that she could detect other than the crooked painting that she had hung on the door to the bathroom. But with it being directly beneath the AC unit there was no way of telling whether this was caused by the supernatural or by the blowing air. This eased her mind. She turned on her lamp on her bedside table and turned off the main overhead light. Sleeping in the dark was out of the question and the small lamp gave off just enough of a warm glow to see every inch of the room without providing so much light that Gwen would find it impossible to