Dirty Rush by Taylor Bell

Author:Taylor Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

12.

COMPLETE SILENCE AND TOTAL DARKNESS

After the craziness of the weekend, and all the rumors and secrecy about sorority initiation ceremonies, I didn’t know what to expect when I came back to the house that night. I was nervous, but I’d come this far, endured so much, and spent so much time in pledge hell already that I wasn’t about to drop out now.

When I walked up the front stairs, Meg was already waiting for me with what looked like my paddle, wrapped in green, pink, and silver wrapping paper.

“Open it.”

“Now?”

“Yes, bitch.”

I started to pull off the paper and ribbons.

“Disclaimer: I’m not naturally crafty, and wrapping this was a fucking challenge. So, sorry it looks like a blind kid with no arms wrapped it.”

“It’s great,” I lied. “I fucking love it. You are crafty, this looks amazing. Thank you so much,” I gave Meg a huge hug. The paddle was pretty much a sparkly hideous mess, but I guess all sorority paddles are, by nature.

“You can’t bullshit a bullshitter.” She squeezed me back.

“Well, it looks like you put a lot of effort into it, anyway.”

Meg took the paddle out of my hands and threw it in a bush to the side of the stairs.

“I’ll get that back to you later. We need to go inside.”

I joined all of the other pledges in the backyard.

“I have to pee so bad,” Jane whispered in my ear a bit too loudly. She was smiling and her eyes sat low.

“Are you drunk?” I asked Jane.

Her grin got wider across her face.

“Just hold it. I’m sure you can pee when we get inside.”

Colette came out to the backyard wearing a beautiful white dress, which I think was from Alice + Olivia, and I made a mental note to try and find it online later. She looked stunning. Her hair was wrapped in a tight, high braid and around it was a crown of white daisies. She glided toward us, holding a glowing, white candle.

“We officially welcome you, the Beta Zeta Fall 2015 Pledge Class, into our home, into our lives, and into our hearts.”

Colette gave us a little smile as she turned and led us back into the house. Inside, all of the lights were off and the entire chapter was standing in the dark, also wearing white dresses. Each one of them held a candle or two. Once we’d all filed into the living room, each Big approached each Little and handed her a candle. It had all been choreographed meticulously. Meg handed me my candle and ushered me into position.

All twenty-one pledges formed a circle, each with her Big standing right behind her and her Grand Big standing right behind them. Amazingly, this was all happening in complete silence. It was definitely creepy in a Tom Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut kind of way, but I was into it.

“We shall steadfastly love each other,” Colette said, calling the initiation to order.

“We shall steadfastly love each other,” we all repeated.

“Sisterhood is the foundation of our organization,” Colette continued.

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