The Way We Roll by Stephanie Perry Moore

Author:Stephanie Perry Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

After we got Torian straight, I grabbed the keys out of Loni’s hand. “Let’s go.”

“No, you can’t say anything to them,” Torian said, holding her head in the air.

I didn’t turn around. This had gone too far. Just a little push here, just a little shove there. A few harsh words. Whatever. We’d just stopped blood from profusely streamingfrom her nose. We all got in Loni’s ride, and I took off, thinking I’d find the Betas even if Loni didn’t give me directions.

“The whole two weeks have just been way too much,” Loni confessed. “I wanted to walk away so many times, but I stayed because Torian felt like we should.”

I asked, “Who actually hit you? Was it Sharon?” “Girl, we haven’t even seen Sharon. Somebody said she’s sick,” Loni said in a salty tone.

“It was a couple girls from the University of SoutheasternArkansas and some beast named Keisha.”

“So y’all were with their line?”

Loni said, “Yeah, we’re supposed to be with their line next week, too. Turn right there.”

“Don’t tell her where to go,” Torian said to Loni.

“No, this is crazy. They need to be stopped for real.” We arrived and I got out of the car and went inside, Torianand Loni right behind me.

The room was scorching hot, and it wasn’t summertime. It was funky in there as well. All the Betas were hovering over the pledges like they were about to beat them down.

I saw Dena and another girl named Audria. Forget big sisters and all that protocol junk, because they didn’t have my respect and I wasn’t going to pretend like it was there. I boldy said, “Where’s Hayden?”

“She’s not here,” Dena said, rolling her eyes. I wanted to smash her for allowing my girl to get beat.

Taking a deep breath, I asked, “Does she know what y’all just did?”

Then this bigger, very mean-looking, unkept soror came over. “Oh, that’s that paper girl y’all were talking about?”

Dena whispered to her, “Keisha, be cool.”

“Yeah, I’m the one whose mom is the National President,so let me just say y’all keep hittin’ people, and I’m gonna rat on this line. Nobody will cross.”

Nobody was moving, and they looked like they thought I was bluffing. I pulled out my cell phone and started dialingmy mom.

“Okay, y’all get away. Get out of here. She could call the adviser on us.”

When the line dispersed, Tammie came over to me and said, “She wasn’t supposed to get hit. Torian just said a few things out of line.”

Torian said, “I told them not to hit anybody else. Look at the girl who stands two people in front of you. She has a black eye.”

Sally was her name. When the big sisters piled out, Sally came over to me. Actually, all the hazed sisters huddled around me. I just knew they were going to go off on me for threatening to expose them. But I appreciated their surprising response when Sally cupped Torian’s face and said, “Thanks for caring more about yourself. They are taking this thing too far.

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