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“Just pumping you up. This is gonna be epic.” The roar of her laugh is almost too evil.
“I hate you.”
“You love me.”
“Attention, everyone.” Carly taps into the mic from where she’s standing tall on a wooden stepladder. “We’re so glad you could come to our last-minute event. We have two fierce competitors today. Give it up for one of our own, Delta Chi sister, Melody Higgins.” The crowd erupts when Melody dances her way out to the center of the pit, mud sloshing around and already coating her cute white bikini. “And freshman hottie, Riley Cross.”
My heart sinks into the mud beneath my feet as Scar shoves me out into the pit. I glance over my shoulder at her and mouth the words, “I do not love you.”
She bursts out laughing, along with Crew and Jagger, who are now standing beside her. Neo stands off in the distance, but there’s a smile playing on his lips, too. Of course, the only time the fucker would smile is when I’m about to become mud pie.
I’m drudging through the thick brown muck, heading to the center of the pit. It would be just my luck that I’d trip and fall over. Melody would probably pounce and drown me.
Once I’m in front of Melody, who is wearing the biggest, nastiest, shit-eating grin, Carly resumes her announcement. “The rules are simple, ladies. No hair pulling. And no face blows.”
Chats and hollers surround us and my heart beats even faster.
And fuck my life, Melody’s mischievous eyes say she’s ready to go hog wild.
“Prepare yourself, bitch!”
“Teeth”by 5 Seconds of Summer comes on, blasting through the speakers on each side of the pit.
“Shoulders down for a three-count and the winner takes home…absolutely nothing, but a big ego and panties full of dirt.” Carly beams. “Are y'all ready?”
No. No. No.
But I nod, and Melody throws her hands in the air and shouts, “Let’s fucking go.” The crowd goes insane. Singing, shouting, clapping. There are hoots and hollers and I know I have to at least try. Giving up is not an option.
Melody comes toward me and I hold my hands out like claws ready to grab, while keeping the distance between our bodies.
We do a little dance, slapping at each other’s hands, but then I hear Scar shout, “Take her down, Ry!” And my adrenaline soars.
Springing at Melody, I’m able to catch her off guard. “Who’s the bitch now, bitch.” I grab her wrists, pulling and twisting, while mud splashes, coating both our bodies. I lean to the left, fighting like hell to toss her whole body in the mud, but my own leg is kicked out from underneath me and I’m the first to drop.
I hold on tight, my nails dragging down the surface of her arm, and she tumbles right beside me. Both on our sides, we snatch and seize and tug.
“You scratched me, whore!”
Her name-calling only fuels the fire inside me and I manage to get the upper hand by climbing on top of her. Legs straddling her waist, I knock away her hands that are coming right at my face. Somehow, I got a mouthful of dirt, the crunching an annoyance between my teeth. I turn my head to the right and spit.
Melody bucks her hips up hard and fast, sending me in the air a couple inches, but I drop right back down, thrusting a gasp out of her.
One of her hands lands on my shoulder and she drags her nails down as hard and as ferociously as she can. Ignoring the sting, I take that same hand and pin it over her head. My face is now hovering over hers. “Give up, Melody. You don’t stand a chance.”
“Oh yeah?” She smirks, using her other hand to scratch me again, but this time, she gets a firm grip on my bra and pulls until one of the straps rips. She doesn’t stop. She keeps pulling until it’s resting around my stomach and my breasts are exposed.
“Fuck yeah. Nice tits. That’s what I’m talking about.” Those are a few of the things being said by the students surrounding the pit.
I lean forward, pressing my chest to hers in an attempt to hide myself, never once relenting on the hand that I have pinned. Squeezing her body as hard as I can with my legs that are caged around her, I peel off her other hand that’s now pinching my bicep. I get a good grip on it and slam it into the mud, holding her down.
“One. Two,” Carly counts, and I hold tighter, just needing that last number. “Three.” Right as she says it, I’m wrapped up in a jacket—a black leather jacket—then I’m ripped off of Melody.
The next thing I know, I’m being tossed over someone’s shoulder, dripping with mud.
It’s not just someone. It’shim.
“What the hell, Ridge?” I kick my legs and claw my mud-packed nails into the top of his head as I try to lift up. But he pushes his hand on my back, keeping me snug to his shoulder, while slogging through the mud. “Put me down. This is so fucking humiliating.”
