Katie was normally a night person and she was lucky for that. The way the Cormac returned home was very loud and Katie might even define it as violent. Then he called out her name and she got this sense of foreboding in the put of her stomach.
She set aside the book she had been reading and pushed aside the covers of her bed before she stepped off the bed. She looked in the mirror to make sure that she looked presentable. It was a force of habit. She had just learned to care very much about how she looked. Satisfied, she took a deep breath and went downstairs to see her new roommate.