She gave him instructions – if anyone asks, you’re my boyfriend – while they rode in the elevator and he tried to imagine what she had in store for him, but couldn’t, and before they reached the eighth floor she told him to stand against the side wall and when the door opened she said, All clear, and led him by the hand through a wide well-lit hallway, similar in design to the hallways in the male residence though with showers at both ends and no parade of naked bodies and in fact there was no one around at all and the doors were closed and they reached the far end and she said, We’re home, and stopped walking and he did too and they stood outside one of the closed doors and she unlocked and opened it and pulled him gently inside and said, I’m Scarlet, in case you were wondering, and he wa
