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“What did he say?” Brook said. Waiting for me outside the dean’s office, she looked at me with concern.
“He won’t shut down the fraternity,” I said, my jaw tight with tension.
“Oh,” she said, clearly surprised. “Well, that’s good news.”
“Yeah,” I muttered, looking down at the ground beneath my feet as we walked out of the administrative building.
“Bishop?” she said. “That’s good news. You saved the House of Saints. Why so glum?”
I stopped walking and turned to face her. “I saved the house, but I have to leave it.”
Frowning, she looked at me. “What do you mean?”
“He expelled me.”
Aghast, she took a step back and brought her delicate hand to her mouth. “Oh, Bishop. No.”
I nodded. The tension cramped my shoulders and my legs were stiff.
We resumed walking, heading back to the house that I had helped build. The house that I now had to leave behind.
Reaching the front door of the house, I stopped and looked at Brook. “I’m going to announce it to everyone right away.”
She nodded.
“Then I’m going to pack up and leave.”
“I can’t believe it,” she said. “How can he do that? He can’t make you leave just like that. You need time.”
“No time. I am to leave the campus immediately. If I don’t leave of my own accord within the hour, he’ll have me forcibly escorted out. And I can tell you, I don’t want that.”
On entering the house, Brook gathered all the pledges and directed them to the living room.
“What’s the verdict?” Trenton said. “Are we out on the street?”
“I’ll be brief,” I said. “The house is safe.”
Cheerful cries filled the room.
“Way to go, Bishop,” Trenton said. “Way to go.”
“But I’ve been asked to leave the campus.”
The cheers subsided and disbelief settled in.
I turned to Deacon. “I guess that leaves you in charge.”
“If things continue like this, Brook is going to be in charge of this house,” Trenton said.
I chuckled wryly and stepped down.
“Sorry to see you go,” another pledge said as he patted me on the shoulder and left.
The pledges dispersed leaving me alone with Deacon and Brook.
“This is rough,” Deacon said. “First Rector and now you.”
“Yeah,” I said. “You better watch your back. You might be next.”
