The last room on the tour was Silas’s bedroom. It was the biggest room on the third floor. There was a balcony and even a spiral staircase that went up to a tower. The house really did have secret rooms, not that he showed me a bunch, but he did show me one in the study.

I know seniors have the option of going home every day, and school was only a twenty-minute drive from Deadwood, so I had to ask. “Why do you stay at the dorms when you have this?” I gestured around the bedroom. ...