Separation

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*AUTHORS NOTE*

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Holland's POV

The room was spinning. I don't have my eyes open, but I can just tell, because I'm definitely spinning. I drank way too much last night, and I didn't have any water before bed. Damn those frat boys.

"Oh fuck," Grey groaned and I wanted to punch him so he could be quiet, but I could barely lift my arms.

"Shut up," Ryker mumbled. I grunted in agreement.

"Guys, we have class, we need to get up." I wanted to roll my eyes but that would require me opening my eyes to begin with, and there's no way I'm doing that. After a few minutes of silence, Grey spoke up again.

"Alright, we all get up on the count of three. I'll get the water, Ryker you get the Tylenol, Holland you pick out our outfits. Ready?" Ryker and I just groaned in annoyance and our groans drowned out Grey counting. "One, two, three!" We all sprung out of bed and immediately got to our tasks, and the parade passing through my head continued to drone on and on.

"What's the weather like outside?" I shouted as I rifled through the closet.

"There's this amazing invention called the weather app. Have you heard of it?" Ryker shouted at me and I just rolled my eyes. I shuffled back into the bedroom, grabbed my phone, and checked the weather. A nice 73 degrees, great.

I picked out t-shirts for all of us, shorts for the boys, and leggings for me. I laid our outfits on the bed just as Ryker came in the room with beautiful drugs, I mean Tylenol, and Grey came in the room with our water bottles filled up.

"Let's get dressed and get to campus, we have twenty minutes until our class starts," Grey said as he chugged the water and Tylenol. Ryker and I did the same, and we all rushed to get ready.

We were finally in the truck when I had a moment to check my phone. I had a bunch of notifications and I normally never have this many. I had a friend request and a Snapchat from someone, and a text from an unknown number. I furrowed my eyebrows as panic slowly started to creep along the edges, threatening to pounce and consume me. I took a deep breath before I opened the text message first.

Unknown Number: hey holland it's dean, the president of omega theta epsilon, i got your number from grey and ryker. don't tell them, but they are definitely getting their bids on monday, and we normally sneak into wherever the guy is living and basically kidnap them in the middle of the night. just wanted to give you a heads up since the boys let us know about your anxiety and what not. hope i'm not crossing any boundaries by texting you. again, please don't let me them know about this, and the "kidnapping" will happen monday night around 11:30 PM. talk to you soon!

I breathed a sigh of relief at the text message, and actually almost started crying. The fact that the guys in the frat have been very nice and welcoming to me makes me so happy that they decided to rush this particular frat, and that they will get to have a really cool group of friends. I also love how Dean texted me to warn me about the guys getting their bids, so that I'm not freaking out in the middle of the night by them breaking into our apartment.

I glanced at Ryker and Grey before responding to the text, making sure they weren't looking at my phone. Ryker was focused on the road and Grey was passed out next to me.

Me: hey dean! thanks for the heads up, i really really appreciate it more than you know! and okay! that's so exciting! i'll make sure that the doors are unlocked before we go to bed.