That Night

Recollection

"It was a Saturday night. It was my first time at a frat party or a college party period. I had just gotten into Los Angeles University and the school hosted its annual 'Welcome Weekend' where admitted freshmen came to learn more about the school. I was the only kid from my high school to get into LAU so I knew no one at the party. I stayed to myself in the corner by DJ booth. There were guys throwing ping pong balls into red cups and girls licking tequila out off of each other's boobs. I just turned 18 two weeks ago so this is the most action I've ever seen. I couldn't hear much because I lost my hearing 12 minutes into the party thanks to the speakers. Next thing I knew there was a blonde girl in a skirt flailing her arms all over me. She was beyond drunk and in no condition to dance but she tried anyway. For some reason, her dancing caught everyone's attention. Within 60 seconds there were white lights shrouding us from every angle. I just knew this was going to be all over Snapchat. A normal freshman would probably be excited by all of this attention but I was embarrassed. I'm what you call an extroverted introvert. I stay to myself but if I know you, I'll interact with you. We made eye contact a few times and she had the most pure blue eyes I'd ever seen. After the circus act was over, I walked into the backyard to get away from everyone. It was pretty quiet, there were only stoners outside so they were in their own world, or any other world but this one. The house was humongous. It was 6 bedrooms, a basketball court in the front yard, an indoor pool and a ridiculous backyard. You didn't see many places like this in my part of Texas. I stood outside for about 5 minutes before a guy came over with a blunt in hand. His name was Jared. He was about 6 feet tall. He looked like the average white guy, with sandy brown hair and hazel eyes. He offered the blunt to me but I declined.

'Come on man just try it. How can you say no when you don't even know? Wait that was cool, no and know, get it.' he chuckled to himself.
I kinda just wanted to forget about the soon to be infamous video I was apart of so I took him up on that offer. I took two quick inhales and immediately started choking.
'Bro, you are such a rookie.' Jared laughed as he took the blunt. 'I am a rookie' I retorted, now laughing with him.'Shit's good right? What's your name by the way?''I'm Jordan. I'm a freshman.''Jared & Jordan. Sounds like the start to an amazing friendship. I'm a sophomore here so maybe I can teach you some things.''Maybe.''Just be careful. Some of these sorority girls will literally make you wanna kill them.' Jordan snarled as his face tensed up.'Noted.' I said as I stumbled back into the house.

I think I may have smoked the perfect amount. I was on cloud 9 but I was still functional. I decided I wanted to tour the house. I started walking upstairs and I wandered into the first room I saw. It was dark but I could definitely hear sounds in the room. Almost like moaning sounds so I flicked on the lights. It was two guys. I was in utter shock, I'd never walked in on anyone having sex. They both jumped up, pretty embarrassed. They were both the same height, one was more brown skinned with flat top and the other was lighter with a short fade.

"Hey you didn't see anything!" one of them yelled while pointing at me."ANYTHING!" the other exclaimed."Okay. Okay. I saw nothing." "I'm Jeremiah." the brown skinned one nodded at me."And I'm Nigel" the lighter skinned one waved."Nice to meet you guys. I'm gonna go." I muttered as I put my hands up and slid out of the room.They seemed two calm for two guys that were secretly hooking up so I kept my ear on the door so I could hear their true reaction."Dude we have to be more careful. This is the second person." Jeremiah insisted."You don't think she?" Nigel asked."Sent him?" Jeremiah cut Nigel off."That's would be the Amanda thing to do.""We need to find her. This ends tonight!" Jeremiah snapped.After a while I stopped listening. I thought to myself, who ever this Amanda is, she is a piece of work. I continued through the house. When I snuck out of the 6th bedroom after seeing my 3rd sex scene, I felt two hands touch my back and heard a "boo!" I was never so scared in my life. I screamed like a little girl. My reputation was getting worse by the second. I turned around 'Gotcha!' she drunkingly laughed. 'What the hell was that?' I asked as I gripped my heart. 'A joke honey. Learn how to take one" she responded as she continued to laugh."I'm Jordan.''I'm Kate. I'm apart of DGA. Delta Gamma Alpha. Aren't you the guy that was dancing with my sorority sister Amanda?''Yup. I guess Amanda's pretty popular." I said while looking down.'I know, I know she can be a handful & a total bitch at times.''Well she wasn't that bad.'For the next 2 minutes she was blabbing about sorority stuff so I told her I needed to pee and disappeared.

I walked back downstairs to the bar. I was still feeling good from the weed earlier but I felt my high coming down. The bar was self serve apparently. There were bottles everywhere and the entire bar top was soaked with alcohol. I found out the hard way when I laid my arm on it. I wiped my forearm on the bar stool in disgust. When I looked up again there was girl once again standing in front of me. Through the strobe lights I was able to see a rounded nose and plump lips. I was uber excited to see a black girl. Her name was Unique. She handed me a napkin and gave me a jello shot. She was about 5'6, pretty thin, with a huge butt. We smiled at one another and she walked off after giving me her name.

I chilled at the bar for about an hour just drinking whatever I saw. Needless to say, I was pretty drunk. I was still able to walk for the most part but my stomach was ready for war. I had never been so nauseous in my life. I wondered around the party looking for a bathroom and eventually ended up sprinting to avoid throwing up in front of the entire party. I remember almost trampling a guy who looked like he was too young to be at the party. After circling the entire first floor, I ended up face to face with the indoor pool. I figured that was the closest I'd get to a toilet so i dived to the edge of the pool, dropped my head and let it all out. It was such a relief to puke. Oh my God, you wouldn't believe.

Stomach problem was solved but I was still pretty drunk. My head felt like a bowling ball. I wiped my mouth and focused all of my energy into picking up my head and that's when I noticed blonde strands of hair. I squinted my eyes and re-opened them and I saw that the hair was connected to a head. 'Oh shit!' I exclaimed. 'I'm so sorry. I didn't see you swimming.' Then I made eye contact with her and her blue eyes remained stagnant. There was no glaze or motion to them. I screamed so loud that no sound came out. I felt my stomach hit my ankles. I recognized those eyes and that skirt. It was the girl that danced on me earlier. She was dead.""Come on that wasn't scary." Jeremy said while rolling his eyes. "Yes it was. I don't think I'll ever sleep again." Ernest asserted. "Well that was the best I had. Sorry guys!" Jordan huffed as he shrugged at his freshmen.
Now a sophomore and R.A. at LAU. Jordan had all of his freshmen huddled around him. Some of them were scared and some were not phased by the story. This was his first time talking about that night. It was almost a year and a half ago. The freshman thought that this was some made up Halloween ghost story but little did they know, this really happened.
There's a reason why they don't know the story was real. After the boys left his room, Jordan sat up against the headboard of his twin sized bed thinking about that night.
"I probably shouldn't have told them that much but I was hoping talking about it would stop the nightmares and the guilt." Jordan said out loud as flashbacks replayed in his head.
"I remember running when I noticed it was her. I was already associated because of the dance so being found with her body wasn't a good look. I returned to the party and tried to act as normal as possible but I was shook. After about 30 minutes, I noticed Kate, Unique, Jeremiah, Nigel and this big frat guy, sneak into the pool room." Jordan recalled as he reached into his closet for a poster board.
"I followed shortly after and peaked through a crack in the door. They stood around the pool talking. None of them seemed shocked that there was a floating corpse in the water. The big guy's name was Josh. It was his house and he didn't want Greek Life to but shutdown over this." Jordan whispered to himself looking at his poster board full of sticky notes.
"I remember them looking in my direction but I moved. When I peeked again I saw the four of them carrying her body out through a side door." Jordan squinted with his hand secured under his bottom lip while staring at his poster board. "When they came back in I could hear them a bit more. That's when I heard Kate say something that I will never forget, 'No one can ever know what happened to Amanda.'"