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"For real?" She lit up. I nodded. "Yes! I always wanted to ride a motorcycle."
"Your chariot awaits, my lady." I got on and then helped her on. She was so excited I thought she might squeeze me to pieces with those tiny arms. She was petite and curvy, sexy in the obvious ways. I felt a bit like a giant next to her which is how I imagined guys like Storm felt all the time. I kinda liked feeling like a giant.
Once at the only other frat not on fraternity row, I parked the bike. So much easier to escape on this thing than worrying about a car. I attached our helmets to it and offered Thalia my hand. She took it and looked up at me and said, "I'll help you."
"Help me?" I asked.
"I'll be nice to her. She doesn't really have friends. Later, you tell me what you need to know. I'll slip that in. Find out. We'll be a good team." She was happy to be doing something bad.
I flexed that grip on her fingers and said, "We're going to have a great year."
Autumn
I wasn’t surprised I was chosen to DJ at the newest off-campus house for the DIBs because I was one of three high-profile female DJs in the area, and they wanted a quote-unquote hot girl. Much like the XIX fellas, these boys realized lower case letters send a whole different image dIb. They were hilarious and revolting, but they paid well and the purchase of a hotel with indoor pool and way more rooms than they needed, at least until their numbers grew, was like a real slap to the other houses still on frat row. Just like the XIX guys, I worked for as a bunny, the DIBs gave their old house to the sister sorority, the BBBs, which had a real meaning, but I reduced it to boobs, butts, and boys.
That was really the worst part of all this for me. Like, did any of these bitches have connections beyond these guys to get their own place or were they just going to slowly move out of the dorms into frat row until it was sorority row? Move out of sorority houses into mansions that they still didn’t own or earn without some man’s money. It was sickening because so many other women would be out here hustling, getting good grades, and putting that degree to use. Like Harper.
She and Apollo were two of the first people from my side of the frat life to arrive. I was in my DJ clothing, and that meant neon, small, and glow-in-the dark. I was just shy of indecent, but this was a show and it paid well. I waved and Harper waved back. They made their way over to me and Apollo looked down at me and said, “How long did it take you to get ready?”
That was an odd question, but it was Apollo, so I answered. “Maybe forty minutes? The hair and make-up took the most time.”
“Forty minutes.” He nodded. He looked at Harper and said, “We had time.”
She snickered, reached for his hand, and held it as she said, “No, we didn’t. But we have plenty of time tonight.” She looked at me and I smiled at them. They were cute together. She was cute with all three of them, really. “Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the patience and the assist in the whole...situation.”
“No problem, boss.” I smiled. “Winston is my best friend. I’d do just about anything for him.”
“Just about?” Apollo asked.
I whispered, “I won’t fuck him.”
They both laughed. He nodded. “Ah. Right.”
“Right.” I looked out toward the newest arrivals and said, “He’s such a good man.”
“He is.” Harper nodded as she turned, but then realized I was talking about Storm. “Oh. Yes. That one is a sweetheart. Fragile.”
I looked at Apollo and he was looking at Harper in a way I don’t think he looked at anyone else, maybe ever. I agreed, “Men in love are often fragile.” They looked at me and I rolled a shoulder. “Applies to women, too. The most delicate piece of all of us, the emotional heart.”
Apollo glared at me. We were in a creative writing class together and that was a combination of lines from something he had written. Before anyone could say anything else, I said, “I need to get to it. Darkness has fallen and the crowd has arrived. Including Winston and Princess Crazy Ass.”
They laughed. Thalia was well known as a Diva with all caps on each letter. When they walked straight to Storm and Holly, I knew Winston had already smoothed his path. He was smart enough he could be in grad school right now, but young enough he wanted to enjoy life, have adventure, be crazy. He was doing that this year full throttle.
Apollo and Harper headed off in a different direction away from the foursome now gathered near a station for drinks. Holly looked so damn hot. I wanted to go over there, say hello, kiss her. Something. Well, later, maybe I could. Right now, I had work to do and one cue from the hosts and I kicked this shit off with some dance music.
They had the whole ballroom to work with and it was working. Damn, they did a good job with this party. The platform for the DJ booth was high enough I could see out and around the crowd, the screens flashed images that elevated the mood. The lights had five settings and we were on the first one and would end this thing in the dark with all the special lighting that would really hit the vibe they were after.
It would be one hell of a night for sure.
Storm
Fucking DIB party in a broken-ass hotel that was probably going to collapse once we got out of the fucking building. I could not believe they let them buy it, much less move into it until it was all repaired. This is why the marked, but no longer lit exit was not being used. It's why the toilets in the men's room were leaking. I didn't know much about all this shit. I had avoided frat life at my other college. They did not have a XIX chapter there and this was my legacy. It was this frat or none, so I chose a college without a chapter.
I placed Holly and Thalia on their feet and asked, "You okay?"
They were both looking up at me like I just grew wings and a halo. I shook my head and said, "Let's head over that way until this mess clears out. I don't see or smell smoke. It's probably a false alarm."
Thalia blinked and smiled and said, "Wow. You just...wow."
