Travenna State University

Chapter 7: The Process

It's been 3 1⁄2 weeks since I've had a conversation with Zaveon. I've been busy with this MIP for Rho Rho Psi and trying to maintain my grades. I called Zaveon for the first two weeks and texted him, but no response. So I basically gave up talking to him. I deleted his number out of my phone and no longer wanted to talk to him. I guess all things happen for a reason. Today was last class for our MIP process. Bryan, Kenny, Ryan, Tyrese, Jermaine and I became extremely close over the past 3 1⁄2 weeks. We all went to breakfast, lunch and dinner together. We all studied together and hung out together on and off campus. The crazy part about hanging out with my LBs on campus was the attention we got from the other students watching us chill. A lot of people on campus were starting to notice us. You could even hear whispers on campus saying, "Oh yeah, those the new Rhos coming out." People even came up to me to ask if I was on line 'pledging' and I simply replied, "Nah, I'm just a freshman." Rho Psi Psi is the only fraternity on campus with permission to intake freshmen and the other fraternities are banned from doing so. I just found this information out last week in one of our MIP classes. If freshmen are caught during the process, that could render suspension of the organization.
My Line Brothers and I met up at the fraternity house to talk to Charles. Charles was standing on the front porch sitting, waiting for us to arrive. He stared at us and told us to walk in behind him. We were confused and kind of worried. Charles had this mean look on his face. I've never seen him in this mood. The house was dark so we couldn't see anything. The only thing I could remember is being pulled and having my eyes covered.
"The brothers of Rho Psi Psi want to welcome you to initiation." Charles said.
The bothers had on Red robes and each member had a candle. My LBs and I had on yellow and white robes with white candles in our left hands. The white robes represented purity, interest and wisdom. Brother Jermaine pulled each member to the center floor of the basement. We sat down in Indian style while the Rhos made a circle around us. The Rhos had red candles in their right hand and black candles in their left hands.

Brother Charles stood up, "Oh brothers of Rho Psi Psi, do thee accept the interest of willingness on the invited.?" All the brothers said, "I." Charles told us to repeat every word after him:
"I swear to keep the fraternity secrets hidden from society, I swear to bring light unto my fraternity, I swear to bleed blood for my fraternity, I swear to keep the fraternity values and morals until the day I die."
Charles then said, "Who have wish to not deliver those commands are welcome to leave."
None of us left. We all stood there with our candles. Charles told us all to hold our right hands out. The wax from the black candle represented sacrifice and death. Each member poured drips of wax on their left hands. The wax was streaming hot.
The member circled us again blowing each of our candles out again. The room was dark and I was scared as shit. Brother Pringle aka Rob stated singing the fraternity hymn:
"Rho Oh, Oh Rho,
We pledge to thee,
In unity our souls we strive,
We will survive,
The red and yellow our greatest pride."
"You are all brand new now. Your old identity, your old selves are now replenished." Don said as he passed the red candles to us, lighting them. A deep voice then said, "You can take the blind folds off." Standing in front of us was Dr. Ross. He had on the Red Robe. He walked by each of us one by one and blew out our red candle saying, "You are now a member of Rho Psi Psi. Hearing those words made me feel good as hell. The lights of the basement came on and the brothers were all smiling.
"Y'all niggas made it!" Charles said, smiling. My LBs were too happy, "Yo lets go party!" "Nah," I said, "Are we having a probate?"

Dr. Ross looked at us and said, "No, we can't, the organization doesn't allow probates because of hazing incidents.
Charles chimed in, "Y'all still have time to go to the cafe and show off y'all letters. We can party tonight."
I thought it was a good idea because the cafe is usually packed during this time, but we didn't have any jackets I explained to Charles.
"Yes y'all do." He smiled pulling out two big boxes in the corner. In the box were t-shirts, boots, jackets and Rho Psi Psi backpacks. The Crossing Jackets were dope as hell, they had our chapter and line names on there with our numbers.
My line name was "File Case," because I was the brother that kept my line together. Everyone was like files and I was the case that kept all the information on my line. Kenny's line name was "Rude Boii," because he would listen to reggae like almost every day and the bruhs started calling him "Rude Boii." Bryan was called "Temper Tankan," because he would go into flip mode on anyone who makes him upset. Ryan was known as the "Listener" on line, so his line name was "Wise Listener." Jamie was always late during our process so the bruhs called him "No Time Management." Tyrese was the quiet one of us all with long hair and was always dressed to impress, GQ Style, so the bruhs called him "Mysterious Pretty Boi." We all had on black jeans so this was good for us to go to the cafe with our jackets on. I'm not even going to lie, I felt like a kid receiving my pin and crossing jacket.
The Fraternity Red Skull in yellow lining on the jacket stood out. "We 'bout to turn up!" Kenny yelled. All of us was to hype. We got in the car and drove to the campus. Today was one of those days I would remember til the day I die. We got to the cafe and it was packed, us Neo's stayed in the car while Charles, Rob and Jermaine went into the cafe to clear a space for us to eat. Don was telling us that when we go in there we had to represent. I knew we were about to stroll. Rob sent a text to Don telling him to let us come in. We locked arms and put on our black Ray Bans.
"Oh, oh oh, oh oh," we sung to our four founders of Rho Psi Psi. Everyone in the cafe stood up yelling. We felt like celebrities.

All attention was on us and it felt good. We stepped and we strolled. I could see Brandon Lewis in the soda line looking at us. We all took off our shades and the crowd was shocked then applauded more. Brandon Lewis stood there with an angry expression, looking at me. I didn't even give that nigga none of my attention. After turning up the cafe for 20 minutes we decided to eat. We always eat upstairs, so I had to go downstairs to get the food. Brandon Lewis was in the line and I tried my hardest to avoid him, but everyone knows that Mrs. Brandon Lewis was a little Queen that needed attention.
I stood in the back of him checking my Instagram. He turned around, "Oh Mr. Jacob." I ignored him. "Oh so you decided to pledge that I see. Ha ha ha!" He said smiling at me. "Do your LBs know you was trying to suck my dick?" He said smirking.
I gave him an incredulous look, "You're a fucking liar! I would fuck your gay ass up nigga. Don't push my buttons nigga." I kept laughing and said "I'ma tell everybody." I was so heated, I couldn't believe this bitch ass nigga is trying to start rumors on campus about me. The only thing I can remember is seeing blood everywhere on the cafe floor and screaming.