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"Then tell Lisa what you know about all the RAs being so sick"
"It wasn’t all of the his tousle-haired head "Mostly the new ones Look, do I really have to--"
"Why were they sick, Gavin?" Lisa’s voice has gone cold as ice "Are you saying it wasn’t the flu, like I had?"
"Uh, no, ma’am" Gavin looks back down at his slippers "They were just hungover"
"Hungover?" Lisa’s eyes flare like firecrackers "What do youall night in room fifteen-twelve with Sexy Sheikh," Gavin explains "Iher head the way Tricky does when he has a flea No No, no, no
"It has to have been the sa about," I say to her "Re the party It must have been a party at Prince Rashid’s Jas into the prince’s roo her head, not because she doesn’t believe ry I can see the tips of her ears turning red, a sure sign that she’s upset
Silence fills Lisa’s small office Outside the tindows that look onto the street, I can hear the rapid footsteps on the sidewalk of people who are late to work, and the sound of a car pulling into that rarest of all co spot
"Who" Lisa says to Gavin, after she’s had a chance to control her breathing "Who from the RA staff has been to the parties in Rashid’s room? I want names All of them"
She’s lifted a pen Now she holds it poised over a New York College notepad on her desk
"Oh,"Come on Don’t do this to me! This is not cool"
"You want to knohat’s not cool, Gavin," Lisa says, sounding angrier than I’ve ever heard her "A young woht when I asked her peers if any of thele one of them volunteered that they’d been to a party with her, a party in ht actually help the coroner determine the cause of her death They sat there and lied toabout it, start talking, or by God, Gavin, you can start looking for a new place to live"
Gavin’s eyes widen perceptibly Without skipping another beat, he begins coughing up names "Howard Chen And both the other Jash, Jasoes on "And that Josh guy, the one who alears a Yankees baseball cap"
Joshua Dungarden, Lisa writes I notice her hand trerip on the pen
"Stephanie, from the fourth floor"
Stephanie Moody, Lisa writes
"That Ryan guy Oh, and that one with the long nose and glasses"