Rush List

Pixies and Goblins

"And done!" exclaims Dalia "now open your eyes and marvel at my masterpiece"

I slowly open my eyes so as to not smudge anything and when I look I have a handheld mirror right in front of my face that Dalia is holding up, my reflection shows a bold blue and pink winged eyeliner with silver specks all along my brow bone and cheeks. "Wow, this looks great! I'm not too stoked with the fact that you're forcing me to go out, but this partly makes up for it" I say smiling at her.

Dalia starts retouching her face "Hey, I'm not exactly thrilled to be going either. But, we have to put ourselves out there in this new chapter. It will either be a colossal failure or an unforgettable night, if it's the first I promise we can leave early and grab some ramen on the way back" she says now looking at herself in the mirror and adjusting her top.

"Ok, deal, but can the ramen be a part of the night regardless if it goes wrong? Because now it's not a want but a need." I say while starting to clean up the brushes.

Dalia and I have been living together for a little over 3 weeks, and I have yet to get used to how messy she can get. We're convinced the only reason we got paired together is that we're both Puerto Rican. Because when we first met we quickly realized we were drastically different. She's more of the extroverted bubbly type and seemed to be getting along with everyone since day one. While I was still getting adjusted to spending so much time around people.

However, we started having late-night talking sessions and bonded over our mutual show obsessions. Especially New Girl, we started rewatching the show together as our little nightly ritual. Then Dalia forced me to get out of the room and meet the other girls in our dorm, and although it was stressful at first it ended up being fun. Which is how I am now dressed up as a multicolored pixie getting ready to head out to a fraternity party as part of our rush week activities.

Both of us think all of the Greek systems are incredibly overrated, but when Sarah came up to us and told us she was joining rush week. Dalia jumped on board without thinking twice about it because she wanted to live through all the classic college experiences even if she thought it was dumb, so here we are.

"Ok, so how do I look?" Dalia says while giving a quick twirl, making her wings sparkle under the dorms fluorescent lighting. Dressing up as multicolored pixies was the only thing that got me excited about this party since the theme was "Fairies at a disco party". This made us realize we both loved Tinker Bell growing up so pixies was the automatic, no doubt choice.

"You look amazing!" I say fixing a strand of her blue hair "I must say it's like they made this theme just for you, the blue hair really ties the whole look together" Dalia beams at this.

We hear a few knocks on the door "come in" screams Dalia. Sarah flounces into the room and immediately gives us a dramatic twirl to which we respond with "ooooohs and aaaaahs" giving her exactly what she wanted.

"Sarah, you look great!" I tell her, taking her hand and giving another twirl, her dress sparkles as it flows with her.

"Why thank you! And you girls look amazing as well. Quick get together" Sarah says while she pulls out her small Polaroid camera. Dalia and I hurry and get together to pose and Sarah takes a few pics of us. She lets us pick our favorite one to keep but says the rest are for her freshman year scrapbook. Dalia takes the pic and puts it on our mini fridge with a small magnet on top.

"Ok so are we ready to go?" Sarah asks

"Yep" Dalia responds, picking up her bags and I do the same.

"Perfect, then I'm going to go and see if everyone else is ready to go and we will head out." Sarah leaves the room but we hear her scream "Ah this is going to be so much fun!" And I would have put money down that she was skipping while saying that because that's just Sarah.