We quickly made ourselves suitable in the eyes of our peers and colleagues to keep suspicion of our relationship non-existent. As we continued down the halls where the scream was heard, we realized it had come from the room I shared with Tessa. We both rushed quickly towards it before finding there to be a shivering Tessa with tears in her eyes and confusion in her rushed words. She did her best to explain the reason but with her jumbled tears and difficulty to get breath, it was hard to understand her. This would only be made easy when her sobbing would cease or at least limit to sniffling. She did manage to point in my bed as the lamp near my bed was turned on by Gabriele to reveal a dead raccoon in my bad. It’s eyes had been forced from its carcass and it was still covered in blood that
