“Hey, Ray,” Dan said through my open bedroom door, “I just want to let you know that I’m heading out with Rina tonight, so please don’t kill me if I come back smelling like her.”
I chuckled. My adorable sister who thinks she’s so sneaky. “She still hasn’t told me about you two,” I said with a grin.
Dan grimaced. “I wish she would. I’d love to go out in public instead of just meeting her at the waterfall. She’s worried about telling you.”
“I don’t blame her. She just sucks at keeping a secret when she’s trying to keep a secret.” I waved him goodbye, and wished him luck. I really can’t hold it against Rina for keeping everyone in the dark about Dan. Sue and I did t
“How is it a party without dancing?” Rose pouted as we finished searching the house for the source of music. When we found it, we were disappointed to find that the room was the dining room. Nothing but people milling around a table filled with chips, pretzels, and candy.“I don’t know, Rose. My guess is that our host is just not into dancing,” I shrugged.She put her head on my shoulder as we walked around. “We could always find out what happened with Kimi and Ray?”I looked around, and glanced at Rose. Her face was turned up to mine, and was searching it for an agreement or another idea. I didn’t have another idea. Well, I did, but it could wait until we were back at the apartment. Now that we were pretty much living to
We had returned back to the apartment before Nate and Jimmy. While Kam and Rose went to bed, I stayed up and worried. They came back while I was in the middle of a movie, and half awake on the couch.“I thought you guys went to a party,” Jimmy said when he and Nate came in. Nate came over, and lifted me up so my head could rest on his lap.“We went to the party, I hustled my cousin, and found out that GLE is biased against non-shifters,” I mumbled without taking my eyes off of the television.“Damn,” Jimmy said. “All that happened before we even got home.”Nate was stroking my hair, and it was very soothing and distracting. My eyes closed on their own, and I yawned. &l
It had been a week since Kimi and Rose moved in, and I loved it! There was just something amazing about waking up to the touch of the woman I love every morning, and going to bed with her every night. Kimi hasn’t unpacked everything, since she’s still planning on joining that shit sorority, but I’ve grown to love her nightly routine.Now living with Rose was an experience unto itself since she started to control her shifting. The day before school started, she was looking for something in the fridge, and all I could see when I came into the kitchen was her ass with a tiger’s tail.“What are you looking for, tiger?” I asked her with a smirk.She straightened up, and spun around. Her tail hit the counter with a thwack. “Damnit!&r
“Rose! Kimi! You made it!” Sarina shouted when she saw us enter the sorority house.Kimi laughed and hugged her sister. “Of course we made it! We’re serious about joining GLE.”“Besides, we’ve only seen your room and the living room,” I reminded her.She laughed. “Come on. I’ll introduce you around and see how many girls remember you. I think one of the other legacies is here, too.”She took us toward the kitchen, and the dining room where about ten girls were gathered. “Hey, everyone! These are my sisters, Kimia and Rose. Kimi, Rose, this is Ami, Bethany, Lauren, Evan, Amy P, Jessi, Julie, Annika, and Tamora. Did I get everyone’s names ri
“Okay, ladies! Thank you all for coming out for our Rush Run With The Wolves,” Chelsea’s voice echoed across the quad thanks to the obnoxious bull horn she held to her lips. “I am so excited to see what our newcomers' pelts look like, and how fast we can race!”I rolled my eyes. “She realizes that there are a few girls here that are not shifters, right?” I whispered to Ami. Ami had a scowl on her face, and was staring daggers at our fearless leader.“She knows,” Ami growled. Kimi and Rose looked back from the spot where they were standing. The girls who had applied for membership were at the front of the group, and all looked excited, except for Rose. She looked a little worried.I made my way over to my sister and
“Woooo,” one of my frat brothers ran past me wearing a bedsheet as a toga. I had to laugh. He was already drunk, as well as most of our potential pledges. I lost track of Kam an hour earlier. Since the point of the party was to build trust and friendship between potential brothers, I had to leave him on his own.Rina came up beside me with a bottle of water in her hand. “I see Frankie is giving everyone the introduction to Greek life they deserve,” she said, amused.“Yeah. I doubt he’ll be the only guy racing through the party wearing very little,” I said back. “You and your sorority sisters did an awesome job setting up.”Rina shrugged. “We just reused the same shitty stuff from last year for decorations, and
“Allright, pups! Tonight we party and have fun!” Jake was giving all of us potential pledges a pep talk before the party got into full swing. “I don’t want you guys to worry about anything. Your future brothers and I are going to make sure you will be taken care of, and that you trust us. So,” he lined up shot glasses in front of us, “I’m asking you all to get shitfaced, and have fun. If you don’t want to get shitfaced, it won’t count against you. Well, unless you keep a stick up your ass, but I don’t think any of you have one of those.”We all chuckled at his lame joke. I had never drank before, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to now. What would my mom think? She’s not here. What would Rose think? I looked at the shot glass in front of me. There was a first time for everything, Ray and Kimi seem to handle alcohol fin
A knock sounded at our apartment door while I was studying in Nate’s room. It was pretty fun to just be there and have his scent surround me, but we’re way too young to be moving in together for a long term thing.I got up and went to answer the door, and found my sister on the other side. “Rose,” I called down the hall, “Rina is here!”I let Rina in, and we settled on the couch in the living area. She pulled out her laptop and set it up on the coffee table. Rose came staggering down the hall yawning and stretching. She was wearing a pair of sleep shorts and one of Kam’s t-shirts. “Did you find them?”“Yup,” Rina said, popping the “p.”
“Fuck,” I swore as Ray kicked my ass at Mario Kart. Ray chuckled with both hands in the air. “Suck it, pup! I finally won for the first time since you were ten!”I tossed the controller and ran my hands over my face. Game nights at the frat house and losing to my brother were the least of my worries. Rose had been officially charged with manslaughter, and bailed out until her trial in a few weeks. At the advice of her lawyer, Rose and her mom signed a temporary lease at another apartment complex. Something about not sleeping with the victim’s family.“You are off your game, bro,” one of my frat brother’s slurred. “Nobody beats Kamron the Machine.”Ray bumped my shoulder. “He’s right. You’re stressing more than usual.”“Maybe because Rose has been avoiding me,” I sighed. Garrett, a sophomore, shook his head. “You must be reading too much into it. That girl is head over heels for you. She’s probably just overwhelmed with her trial and shit.”I shook my head. “I’ve known her my whole l
“Come on back, and we’ll have you give us a urine sample, then Rina will draw some blood samples to make sure your baby is okay,” Deb’s voice filtered through the office to my station. It’d been a little busier this month, but that was to be expected a few weeks after Spring Break. Lots of little surprises.“R-rina?” a familiar voice stammered. “Rina works here?” Elli and Deb rounded the corner to my space, and I had the sample cup ready with the alcohol wipes.“I sure do, Ellie,” I replied. “Congratulations. The bathroom is right through that door, and I’ll be here ready to draw your samples when you’re done.” I pointed to the door of the restroom where our expecting mothers give their samples every time they come in.Deb looked between us. “You two know each other?” I shrugged. “Small school, and we spent Spring Break together in Mexico.”Elli was pale and shaking a little as she grabbed the cup she was supposed to pee into, then made a b-line for the bathroom. Deb leaned over to m
“Now, Kimi,” Dr. Mayfeld started on our bi-monthly telesessino, “have you and Nate talked about finding a couples therapist to help the two of you transition into parenthood?”I shook my head. “Not yet. We will, but between school and my cousin’s demise, we haven’t exactly made it a priority.”“I understand,” she nodded. “I hate to say it, but you and your friends have gone through one hell of a year. Are you sure you aren’t cursed?”I laughed. “If I believed in curses, I might think that too. I mean, it is possible that Kirsten cursed us when she went to prison.”“Seriously,” she calmed down, but still smiled, &ldq
My parents knocked on our apartment door a few hours after we’d come home from the station. I really appreciated Kimi telling off Kam for me. It was the weirdest feeling. I was almost out of my body for most of the afternoon. It was a little surreal. I also both wanted to be hugged and cuddled, but I also wanted to be left alone.I kept thinking that it was my fault a person was dead. Yes, Matty was a horrible person who attacked me, but I didn’t want him dead! Call me optimistic, but I hoped for him to pay for his crimes, then come out a better person who had learned to respect others.I’d spent most of my time in my room, and barely registered when my mom walked in and sat on my bed. “Oh, my sweet Rose,” she sighed and pushed my curls out of my face. “I am so sorry you have to go thro
“Shit hit the fan, and I’m at my sister’s for a few days,” I explained to Elli over the phone.“I can’t believe all that has happened,” Elli replied. “Is Rose okay?”I sunk into my sister’s couch and sighed. “I honestly don’t know. They hadn’t returned by the time I cleared out. I hope her parents don’t find my room disgusting.”“Why wouldn’t they just get a hotel?” Elli asked.The question confused me. “I’m sure they could, but their daughter just killed a guy in self defense. She kinda needs all her family around her now.” Then a thought occurred to me. “Were you thinking about
“I want to see my fiance. I need to know she’s okay,” I shouted at the officer at the front desk of the police station.Kimi put a hand on my shoulder. “Kam, calm down. They have to go through the hoops. Besides, Officer West sounded like someone who is fair.”I spun to face my sister. “My fiance and your best friend is back there by herself, probably scared to death, and the only people available to her are people in our uncle’s pocket. I’m not going to calm down until I know she’s safe!”“Kam, you making a scene isn’t going to get her out here faster,” Nate tried to reason. He turned to the officer. “Is there someone who can come out and tell us what happened?”
Blake finally managed to push the door to the men’s room open. He broke the lock in the process, but the screaming he heard terrified him. He regretted not being faster when he observed the scene.A man was lying under a broken urinal with eye wide open, and unfocused. His jaw was slack, and a shocking amount of blood was pooled under his head. He looked back out into the hall, and grabbed a random student. “Call 911, and get someone here, now!”The student glanced into the bathroom. “Holy shit!”Blake carefully walked around the body to the woman shuddering in a ball against the wall of the open stall. “Hey,” he said gently. “Are you okay?” He reached a hand to her shoulder, and she flinched.
“Welcome back, everyone,” Professor Anderson greeted the class when she walked into the room. “I hope everyone had a fun, safe spring break? I see we’re still missing a few people. Hopefully they return before the next class. In the meantime, please go to the class webpage.”I already had it up, so I just scanned the page looking for what I expected her to click. I found it under the assessments tab. “I would hope you all are intelligent enough to find what I’d like you to do today, but in case you’re hung over, or not up to your best mental state, find the assessments tab, and click on the test titled, ‘Post Spring Break Quiz.’“The password is capital ‘I’ underscore, paid, underscore, too, with two ‘o’s, underscore, much, underscor
The apartment in Gayl was becoming more and more like home to me. Walking through the apartment door Sunday before school started felt like a weight was lifting off my shoulders. Granted, Kimi and I still needed to finish the nursery for our little girl, and we still had school, but we were happiest here. At least I was, anyway.I guess Kimi wasn’t as happy. She waddled into our room, and fell onto the bed on her back. “Ugh,” she grunted, “would you be offended if I said I miss the bed in Boston?”I chuckled. “Not at all. It was a damn comfortable bed..”“Much bigger than this full size one,” she said and rolled over so she could sit up. “I swear if this little girl gets much bigger, we’ll need a bigger bed.&r