Melinda and Watson talked quietly together in the living room after Melinda got off the phone. Janis stayed with me in the kitchen, stapling a blue tarp over the broken window. The campus police had come and gone. Despite Melinda’s prediction, they didn’t seem to think it was worth keeping an eye on the house. The word “prank” got tossed around a lot from the two officers: disgruntled students getting their fall term grades back, kids burning off the energy of drunken boredom over ...