Rush by Sara Bennett Wealer

Author:Sara Bennett Wealer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Day 3

Morning

TWENTY-TWO

“Can I have your attention please?” Delia said.

Cass tugged at the spaghetti straps of her evening gown as she took her place in formation with the other sisters. They all looked up at Delia, who stood on the second step of the grand staircase wearing an old-time movie director’s costume, complete with jodhpurs and a megaphone. “This is crunch time,” Delia was saying. “Each of the girls we’ll see today is someone to impress. We’ve been narrowing down the list of rushees, but now we could get narrowed as well. Yes, we are Sigma Theta Kappa, but we should never take that for granted. We need to make the best possible impression.”

Cass took a breath, only to feel it blocked by the boning in her dress. Her boobs were spilling over the neckline with straps cutting right up the center of each one so that they looked like they were being sliced in half. Earlier that morning, Ruby had tried to improve Cass’s appearance by raking her curls back in a French twist so tight it tugged at the corners of her eyes. She’d caught a glimpse of herself in the foyer mirror as she came downstairs and saw a big, pale cone head staring back.

That’s when the latest photo came in. They’d been coming all night as people from Leo’s party posted pic after pic of themselves and each other. Cass’s phone would light up with a notification and she wouldn’t be able to stop herself from looking. There were photos of her choir friends posing by the music school fountain, photos of Leo and the other guys laughing over margaritas at dinner, selfie after selfie of girls pouting into the camera, and photos of people doing increasingly ridiculous things, to the point where Cass had finally had to shut off her phone. Because, in her own sober state, she just didn’t find it funny anymore. Because it was 3:00 a.m. and she needed to get to bed. And because, to be honest, she was jealous as hell.

When she turned the phone back on a few hours later, she found the expected backlog of stuff posted while she’d slept. Leo featured prominently in many of them, and many of them included girls. There was Leo sticking his tongue in their friend Lakshmi’s ear, Leo in a crush of thigh-baring musical theater majors, Leo watching googly-eyed while Xander Sullivan did a shot from Jenn Sheets’s impressive cleavage. Any other girl in love with her best friend might have been bothered by this, but Cass actually viewed these photos with a smattering of relief. Leo had seemed so different since coming back from Interlochen, and these were at least a return to the norm. Leo had always thrived on attention, and people—especially girls—were more than happy to give it to him.

This newest photo, however, made her suck in her breath. Compared with the others, it was tame. It showed Leo either asleep or passed out on a couch in the back room of the bar.

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