Girls Most Likely by Sheila Williams

Author:Sheila Williams [Williams, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-52822-3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2006-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

The Ivys stood on line for inspection and exchanged worried glances. This was an important moment in the pledging process and each girl felt a mixture of excitement and dread. The girl from Tuscaloosa took deep breaths to keep her stomach from quivering. They all wondered which Big Sister they would have to please tonight. When the hall door opened, the pledges' dread turned into terror. Audrey Taylor, the best of the best, super soror and AKA empress strode into the room and surveyed the line with the steely gaze of General Patton. Inwardly, her recruits moaned. They were in big trouble now. There would be no pleasing this Big Sister.

I got a case of the giggles when I read this section of Vaughn's letter. It was late spring; I was working part-time at Lazarus and dead on my feet most evenings. It had been a busy day and now I was pacing the floor with Javier perched on my hip. He had chicken pox and was miserable despite the baking soda baths (my mother's remedy) and Benedryl. Bradley had a class at seven-thirty so it was Mommy-on-duty. If it hadn't been for V's letter, I don't know how I would have gotten through that night.

I bounced and walked my baby and got hysterical when I read about Audrey terrorizing those poor girls and running off roommates who didn't have the surgical nurse–style cleaning skills that she did.

I can imagine how those poor Ivys felt. I've been on the receiving end of Audrey's evil eye. She's tough, skinny as a blade of grass, and hard as platinum. But she's always been tougher on herself than anyone else.

You can say what you want, there is something powerful about a girl who owns—and uses—a full set of matching luggage on every trip, short or long. Audrey was the only person I ever knew who had her 'fro washed and styled at the beauty parlor. I didn't see it but Vaughn told me that Audrey's dorm room was a replica of her bedroom at home, and just as clean. When Su and Vaughn visited Fisk for homecoming, V was jealous because Audrey's room was not only neat and showroom quality, it was also all hers. But, please, can you really imagine Miss Neat, Prim, and Proper sharing a bedroom with anyone?

“I've been on the waiting list for two years trying to get a single but no such luck! Zero, nothing, nada,” Vaughn wrote. Until her sister Patty left home, she hadn't even had her own room at home. And now that she was away at school, Mrs. Jones had turned their bedroom into a crafts room.

Audrey dusted off Vaughn's worn-out backpack and stashed it, out of sight, on a shelf in the closet where her clothes were arranged by color.

“Just lucky, I guess,” she said innocently.

Su snorted and started giggling.

“Bullshit. Don't let her fool you. Luck had nothing to do with it.”

Audrey stuck her tongue out at Su.

“What you don't know is that

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