Sorority Sisters by Claudia Welch

Author:Claudia Welch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Ellen

– Spring 1978 –

There are the Omegas, and then there are the rest of us, the nice people of the world. Yes, I’m one of the nice people. Don’t act so surprised. Since I had this figured out after a year in the house, getting called to the president’s room was a bit of a shock. What could she have to say to me? I wear underwear every day, don’t I?

Colleen, the current president, isn’t alone in her room. Kim, the vice president, is with her. Kim and Colleen are both juniors and were both in my pledge class. We’ve never been close, but we’ve never been enemies either, even though Colleen and I were usually at odds during Rush voting. I don’t remember how Kim voted.

“You wanted to talk to me?” I ask.

Colleen nods and motions for me to sit on her bed. She’s sitting on a chair near the window; Kim is sitting on a chair pulled up to the desk, ready to take notes.

Shit. Notes? What the hell?

I sit on the bed and say, “What’s going on?”

“Ellen, I wanted to talk to you about . . . well, about what it means to be in a sorority,” Colleen says. She looks uncomfortable, like she has a stick up her butt.

“No kidding,” I say.

“If you could just sit and listen to what I have to say, without interrupting me,” Colleen says, giving me a hard look. “This is important.”

“Sorry,” I say. I didn’t interrupt her, but things probably look a little funky when you’ve got a stick up your butt.

“People join a sorority to make friends,” Colleen says, looking at me in stern superiority. “The girls who pledge this house want to feel like they belong to something bigger, like they could be something greater than they could be on their own. We all have to remember that, to work together and individually to make sure that everyone gets what she wants out of Beta Pi. We’re all sisters here.”

“Uh-huh,” I say, nodding fractionally to show her that I’m listening and not interrupting.

Colleen glances at Kim. Kim blushes a little bit, shifts her gaze to me for an instant, then drops her gaze to the pad on the desk, clicking her pink Bic pen. Colleen looks back at me.

“Do you agree?” she asks me. “You agree that that’s what we’re doing here? Trying to include everyone? Make sure everyone has a chance to be a part, a real part of Beta Pi?”

“Sure,” I say, shifting my weight on the bed.

“I’m glad to hear you say that,” she says. Whenever anyone says that particular phrase, you can bet that you’ve been led into some kind of verbal trap. Ed’s been pulling it on me since I could talk. “There’s been some talk about you and your friends—”

“Like what?” I say, interrupting her, breaking free of the trap. “Who do you mean?”

Colleen squirms on her chair and sits forward, looking a little aggressive. “You know who I mean. You and Karen and Laurie.

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