I had parked around the corner from Jenny's house and, as I walked to my car, habitually checked my phone.

"Can you come over?" Kat had sent that twenty minutes ago. It wasn't quite 10 p.m.

"Still up?" I wrote back.

"Yes," she replied immediately.

"Everything okay?" I got in my car. She didn't respond before I pulled up to her apartment building, which was only ten minutes away. I rode the elevator to the twenty-second floor. My heart beat fast. I was nervous. Was this the inevitable end? I shook the thought away.

I tapped quietly on the door, which swung open. Kat wrapped her arms and legs around...