After a short drive, the car comes to a stop, and Becca kills the engine. I hear her heels clicking over the asphalt as she walks around to the trunk.
"Up and at 'em, pledges. Hell week starts now." -Becca
"Could someone please just take this bag off my head?" -Nicki
I feel someone grab my arm and haul me out of the trunk. The ground changes from asphalt to wet, dewy grass, and I struggle to keep my footing with zero visibility.
Finally, a hand grips the top of the bag and roughly yanks it off my head.
"Where are we?" -Nicki
"I think we're still on campus." -Kaitlyn
"Obviously." -Becca
"Are you going to tell us what we're doing here?" -Nicki
"And why you felt it was necessary to kidnap us? In the middle of the night? -Abbie
"Speak when spoken to, pledge! Ooh, bring in charge is fun!" -Madison
"Its tradition. Kappa Phi Sigma has done things this way for generations. Now, your first challenge as pledges will be to find the monogrammed cashmere sweater of our founding sister, Trixie Cartwright."
"May she Rest In Peace." -Madison
"She was everything a Kappa sister aspires to be... poised, sophisticated, and unfailingly chic."
"So... you want us to find some dead girl's sweater?" -Abbie
"This doesn't involve grave robbing... does it?" -Kaitlyn
"Ew, no! She left her beloved sweater as an official Kappa Phi Sigma heirloom." -Madison
"You just need to follow the clues scattered around campus to find its resting place. The first team to return the sweater will move on in the pledge process. Everyone else will be eliminated."
"Ooh, a scavenger hunt! I call Abbie and Nicki for my team!"
"Very well then, the first clue is..."
Becca unfurls a scroll tied with ribbon and reads it aloud.
" 'For early mornings and all-nighters, this is the home of the weary writers.' You have two hours to return the sweater to us at Kappa Phi Sigma house. Starting.... now."
As the other pledges split into teams and set off in opposite directions, me, Abbie, and Kaitlyn put our heads together to puzzle out the clue.
" 'For early mornings or all-nighters...' " -Kaitlyn
" 'This is the home of weary writers.' " -Abbie
"So it's somewhere writers hang out... when they're tired? That must mean the library!" -Nicki
"I don't know... that feels more like a place for reading than writing." -Abbie
YOU ARE READING
THE FRESHMAN (CLOSED - TEMPORARILY)
RomansaThe Freshman tells the story of a college freshman who finds herself caught between three different potential love interests, a rival Alpha Bitch, a demanding literature professor, and a score of kind and quirky friends and roommates. Who will she p...
