The professor stood in front of 50 or so students. Her voice was surprisingly loud, louder than what her petite frame should have been able to project. She looked to be in her late 20s, her hair was straight and a fiery red and I found it hard to not imagine it as a curtain from how it swayed whenever she moved.

It was very distracting and sort of hypnotizing. I was completely out of it today which was not very Casey-like. I snapped out of it when my phone started ringing. My heart ...