Stepping outside once again, you head North, towards the street separating these dorms from the non-campus housing. It's hardly worthwhile to try the other dorm buildings, since you don't have the card to enter them and they'd likely be fairly lifeless at this hour anyways. The street is empty (aside from one or two illegally parked cars), but that's hardly abnormal. You cross and head uphill into the midst of suburban two-story houses, and a small spattering of cars parked in driveways or on the street. Well, time to start knocking on some doors.
On the first house, you ring the doorbell, then (on receiving no answer for two minutes) you start knocking and ringing repeatedly. You don't keep this up for long, though. If someone answers, how will you explain yourself? That you got nervous about a few weird minutes of silence? No, if you're lucky, no one's home, and that way you don't look like a colossal and perhaps crazy asshole. Fortunately, after a few more nervous minutes, there's still no answer. So, no one's home. That, or they're calling the police...
Better just try somewhere else, you decide. More sedately, of course. Heading nextdoor, you see through the partially drawn curtains that the TV is on (with one of the broadcast errors you saw before sitting on the screen), yet after ringing, then knocking, you get no response. You see another TV amongst the next three houses you try, but get the same result. How can so many people be out yet forget to turn off the TV? On the fifth house you try, you can clearly hear the radio on inside, as the DJ announces the stations name before some unidentifiable song begins humming mutedly through the door.
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