Halls of Temptation by Katie P. Moore

Author:Katie P. Moore [Moore, Katie P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Fiction, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781933113425
Google: 9tEaAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1933113421
Publisher: Intaglio Publications
Published: 2005-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

January 31, 1993

“Everybody, this is Lacey, my roommate, and she’ll be joining our group,” Chantell said, clearing some papers that were scattered over an easy chair at her side, then motioning for Lacy to sit.

“Hi, Lacey,” the seven or eight girls about the room said in unison.

The research library was small but comfy, the walls and ceiling were dark of walnut-grained wood. Opposite the door, there was an iron-spun staircase that spiraled upward to a matching landing that expanded from the side walls and the back. It was an open loft with top to bottom swollen bookcases filled with frail hardbacks and rare and hard-to-find out-of-prints.

The area below was clustered with two tan leather bead sofas and several well-cushioned easy chairs that were arranged in a circle. One of the girls to Chantell’s right took a glass bottle of clear liquid from her knapsack and passed it around.

Chantell grabbed it, took a drink, and passed it to Lacey. “Here.”

Lacey put out her hand, hesitantly taking it by the peeling label of its neck.

“Don’t worry, it’s Grey Goose vodka…you can’t smell it on your breath, and besides, this group has been a tradition for over thirty years. The dorm parents rarely come in here to check on the study session for fear of disturbing our intense train of thought,” one of the girls said.

Lacey put the cool rim to her lips and tipped it back until a flood of alcohol ran down into her, clearing her throat. “Aww!” She gasped. “It tastes terrible.”

“I compared it to rubbing alcohol the first time I tried it,” Mary said. “You’ll get used to it.”

Putting it down and resting it on her knee, Lacey gulped, then lifted it to take another drink.

She shook and cringed from the taste, closing her eyes disgustedly as she passed it to the girl on her left. “Where did you get that stuff?”

Chantell looked at her. “I help the headmistress set up when she’s entertaining alumni and hosting dinners and things. There’s a full liquor cabinet in her office. When she wants me to get things ready for her, she gives me the key and I make sure there’s a full assortment of all the favorites. I pour half the vodka into a container that I bring, then fill it back up with water. Most times, you serve it as a cocktail or over ice; anyone who drank it would just think it was overly watered down, simple. Then after the party when I’m clearing up, I’ll dump a good portion of the vodka out and some of the others, too. I let her know what’s running low, and she sends someone on a booze run into Derry, usually the janitor or Ms. McClurg, the cafeteria lady.”

“Yeah, and she thinks all of her guests are big Vodka Collins drinkers,” one of the girls snickered.

Access to alcohol and drugs were pretty hard to come by. Off-campus passes were monitored closely and were by special permission only, and the dorm mother was usually responsible for checking the bags of girls who had been on holiday or on weekends away.

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