The Tempest is a dynamic play about vengeance and love, but somehow, it wasn’t capturing my attention as much as the man sitting next to me. I did my best to focus on the colorful characters onstage, but Professor Bennett’s arm was just an inch away from mine and it was more than distracting.

Once again, images from the past couple of nights we spent together flooded my mind. My thighs were tightly pressed together as the darkness consumed me much as it had when Professor Bennett ...