:･ﾟ✧ GOING GREEK

"GREEK LIFE is NOTHING you expected. But EVERYTHING you were LOOKING for."

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“A status seeking slut. What a very interesting term, is that your label? A nobody, dime-a-dozen sorority girl finds out her “oh-so-perfect” boyfriend cheats on her the first chance away, stays with him and stays - sounds a lot like a Hilary Clinton move, but who am I to judge? But as for status seeking, my father is a senator, my mother is a designer and your parents are…? Let me guess, hard working blue collar Americans? Adorable. As for fooling you, well maybe next time remember your boyfriend is a cheater, but also kind of a disappointment. Maybe that’s why he cheated on you. Uptight just isn’t getting him off anymore. But listen, have fun at your spa, maybe they can smooth out the wrinkles with that big ole stick up your ass!”

         :･ﾟ✧ “OH SWEETIE, YOU THINK YOU CAN TURN THIS ON ME? COMING FROM someone with actual class, you should learn your place before you fall further on your face. Really, I am just trying to help you, but if you want to burn out and continue to be daddy’s little disgrace, go ahead. I’m sure you were his princess, bu I can tell from the papers lately on you that now you’re nothing but a disappointment he’s trying to cover up so he can keep his seat in office,” it was a low blow, but she wasn’t above that right now. Not when she was taking a hit on not just her, but her family. Take all the hits on her, but her family was something she would protect always. “I have nothing to prove to you, but I think your vagina could use a steam, maybe it would tighten it back up from its overuse, then maybe next time you cheat with someone, they’d actually think you worth keeping round rather than the gum on his shoe you are.”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“Uh,” Logan said, unsure of what this girl - Mary Kate, he believed she said somewhere in her never ending ramble - even meant. His head spun at the rapid fire dialogue, and it seemed like the girl barely noticed if he answered. He suspected she didn’t care, most people just wanted an audience anyway. “You’re right,” he agreed, not wanting her to explain it. He doubt she even could without losing him in some random tangent. She was cute, though. He could see why Avery befriended her, kind of her opposite, but able to talk pop culture. One of the many things Logan and Avery varied on was that Logan tended to live under a rock. Things happened, but he wouldn’t learn about them till weeks to years later depending on the scenario. Life moved to fast, and he didn’t have time to worry about someone else’s life as he failed miserably at his own. Logan pondered it for a moment: the good person thing was naturally to agree, but even that perspective felt wrong. Avery wasn’t happy. At least, he didn’t think so. He couldn’t imagine how she could be. Cheating probably wasn’t the worst thing that could happen, but he could imagine it didn’t feel great. But Logan had never been in a relationship, he just knew the brutal sting of rejection from crushes to peers alike, and that was bad enough. He couldn’t imagine getting a girlfriend and them cheating on him, what that type of rejection could feel like. “Is she though? Happy? What does she even see in him? He’s just a jerk!” Logan vented, throwing the good person persona out the window. 

“I think those guys have it a bit more easier. Look at Cisco Ramon, smartest person in the room, constantly rejected. And nerds also have to have abs,” he reminded her. Because nowadays the guys were nerdy and got superpowers that gave them a magical six pack. If he got struck by lightning all he’d get was a magical trip to the ER if he lived to talk about it - which with his luck, he would. And be expected to have all his course work turned in on time. He looked at her, and sighed, “It’s just - is it hard? Balancing this stuff and school? I feel like everyone else can go to call, do the work, and party until sunup everyday, and I’m barely able to go from one class to the next.” Looking at her, he nodded. “Yeah, you’d be good at pitching ideas,” he said. Or swindling them into getting more than they bargained with the fast talk. He imagined she’d be a dream employee. “I’m sure you’ll be great at it, though! Do you do the design classes as well? To make ads or packaging?” Without hesitation he said, “Hell.” Don’t get him wrong, he liked the program. He loved building, and he’d always dreamed of being an architectural engineer for as long as he could remember, but the professors? The students? He couldn’t stand them. “I like the classes, I just wish the students and the professors weren’t there. At all.” If he had to be assigned on another group project with arrogant dolts who barely understood Pre-Algebra let alone Calc III, he was going to lose it.

         :･ﾟ✧ HONESTLY, IT DIDN’T MATTER IF HE LISTENED OR IF HE DIDN’T, MARY KATE would go on and on about it either way. The girl didn’t know when to be quiet most of the time until it became so obvious that she had no choice but to notice. Really, she had ‘vocal diarrhea,’ if he said it, well, it wouldn’t be the first time she heard it from someone. She didn’t care, honestly, it never bothered her. Sooner, she’d cut them out for caring too much that she filled the silence. It wasn’t so much she wanted to be heard, she just couldn’t help speaking every thought she had before she forgot them. Even if they were unimportant. And often her mouth and brain were quicker than any filter or censor she could possibly put on. Perhaps it was best her boyfriend wasn’t always around. When he agreed, though, she grinned -- she should have realized he had no idea what she was talking about, but she didn’t. She was glad to hear he agreed, though. Who wouldn’t be? “Thank you.” It at least set the thoughts to rest for a moment that spewed from her mouth, giving them both a breath as she smiled, a smile that brightened her face. Stereotypical, she was almost stereotypical when it came to sorority girls. But still, she was better. Maybe he’d see it. But at least Avery did.

When it went back to Derek, though, there was a sort of stink eye that took over her look, it wasn’t unattractive, but it did contort her face and turn up her nose as she tried to bite her tongue like she would with Avery, because she respected her friend. But she did think she was making bad decisions. Even if she could see why Avery made them. “I think...” Mary Kate started, serious for a second, “I think she thinks she is, he fits the future she’s wanted. And what she views herself as. You know she loves Hilary Clinton and she stood by Bill, it seems that’s what she wants to do even if she doesn’t have to,” she pursed her lips. “I never liked him, but don’t tell her that. Or Antoine. Because he’s not much better.” And those were the only boyfriends of Avery she’d ever known. Though she did like ‘Twoine more... He just needed to grow up at least a little to be with Avery. Didn’t he?

“-- Barry’s abs are hot..” Mary Kate conceded, “but Cisco’s... Cute. There’s just more of a quirky quality to him, is it so wrong not to be attracted to that part? Or m I falling into a stereotype of only liking hot nerds with six packs?” Really, she was just falling under Darwinism, it was wrong, but it was also chemical and physical. How would one change that? Now she felt kind of... Bad, though, and frowned for a moment. “Maybe I am superficial, but why?” Thankful for the topic change, she shrugged. “It’ not easy, you have to prioritize and focus on making each happen. It’s like sociability math, right? You have to utilize every minute. Know the rules, know when to push, when to pull, when to actually do your homework or make a class, it’s a lot more work than we make it look like, and imagine if a lot of us actually put the same amount of effort actually into our schoolwork.” See? Mary Kate was smart, she just didn’t always show it. “I’ve wanted to, but I don’t know much about that Photoshop thing and haven’t made the time to learn when I have other things to prioritize, maybe I should take that class, too.” Didn’t seem like her type of class, though. Hmm. “Right...” It took her a moment, but she understood. “Maybe you need to look at things differently. Not so analytical. You’re too in your head, just like Avery,” the girl hummed as they arrived at one of the campus coffee shops. “Ready to go in?”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“Hmm, you’re right, it just looks like a freshman completely kicked your ass.” Antoine and Derek had once been as thick as thieves. It was hard to believe that at one point in life, Derek and Antoine had rarely ever been seen apart. They were a pair, and once Avery had joined the mix, everything had gone down hill. It was no secret that both boys had been infatuated with Avery, and when Antoine won the fight it caused more than a bit of tension. Now, the two were so different Antoine liked to pretend that he and Derek had never been anything more than enemies. “Oh, sorry, most of the old people I know have more fun than a night at Omega Chi. They all grew past that point of talking about how wonderful they are while sipping daintily from wine glasses.” Antoine snorted. Derek was as loyal as a hungry dog to his owner. Cut him to pieces, and he was nothing more than food - Antoine had known Derek’s loyalty at first hand. “Sure, sure. And I was abducted by aliens. True story, actually. Had the number bruise and everything,” he said dryly, sipping his beer. At the comment, his lip twitched. Normally, that would have pissed him off, but now. “I guess you could say that, but hey, least I’m not a cheater. But eh, we’re all a happy-pappy threesome once again. Or do you just hate when I can pull a Derek Caulfield without looking like a pathetic puppy that not even the - what do you call Kappa Tau’s again? The loser house. Yeah, that’s right. The loser house who rejected you. But hey, at least while I clearly can’t grow up according to you, I have the maturity to keep my dick in my pants.” Antoine said, raising his pint to Derek and winking as he took a long sip.

         :･ﾟ✧ HIS EYES ROLLED THEN, LASHES FLUTTERING AGAINST his sharp cheeks while he bit his tongue for Avery, jaw set in stone. “You’re not even worth my breath, Sanchez.” One punch doesn’t constitute kicking one’s ass, he would have said that, but he was going to rise above this piece of trash like the egotistical ass he was, the first word was his choice, the one about himself, though? That was just fact. It was hard to remember they were close, but oddly enough, it wasn’t Antoine’s rejection that drove them apart. It was his. His pride was too much and Derek? He decided he didn’t need him. And then he got the girl in the end and a fraternity and prestige, so clearly he won. Didn’t he? “We both know the kind of old people you know, ‘Twoin. Just like you, they’re not worth anything.” How could he speak so harshly to a once friend? Well, that would need psychological introspection, and that was hardly something Derek wanted to get into. There was ignorance, not even caring to listen until something perked his ears and narrow his gaze while he shook his head. “And where was that maturity when you had her? Because who has Avery now? Right, me. And you’re the idiot that let her go. Remember that.”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“Uh,” his ears grew pink as she listed off two not-names and mentally cursed. It was surprising that he’d been picked for any fraternity in rush, but here he was, standing yet again in ZBZ lost and embarrassed. Life really did go full circle in college - an in less than a month, too! “Logan,” he corrected her. Logan rolled his eyes. Of course Avery was. He didn’t understand - truthfully didn’t even want to understand why his sister was still with him. Derek seemed okay when they’d met the night of rush, but there was no excuse for what he’d done or how he’d handled it. Logan knew the cheating had been deliberate. He clearly hadn’t expected to be caught, and probably knew none of his brothers would sell him out, but he hadn’t factored in inviting back a punctual nerd who was too eager to join a frat, and bam! He’d been caught red handed in the act. And then, he’d tried to buy Logan’s loyalty. “Uh, thanks. I think? It’s really nothing he kind of didn’t deserve,” he said, rubbing the back of his neck.

He felt sort of offended by the observation, even though it was nothing he didn’t know or hadn’t been said. The girl clearly had a shitty filter between her brain and her mouth, and he didn’t know how much offense he should take. “Are you sure?” He asked, mostly because he didn’t want to whine to this girl. He didn’t want to whine to Avery, but he’d listened to her for years and was her little brother, this girl he happened to stumble into. Watching the two girls walk away, he shrugged in agreement. He needed the help, whether he bitched or not, and if Avery was going to cold shoulder him, then why spit in the gift horse’s mouth? “Sure. Coffee sounds great,” he said. Or another cup - his fourth, to be exact. Two energy drinks, three grande-sized black coffees and still not enough time to do KT stuff and engineering homework and listen to his crazy Christian roommate, Dale. Hermione Jean Granger’s third year had nothing on him right now. “So what do you major in? If you don’t mind me asking that is,” he basically stumbled out, trying to keep his thoughts and courtesy together.

         :･ﾟ✧ “LOGAN! LIKE RORY’S BOYFRIEND, I HOPE YOU’RE BETTER THAN HIM, THOUGH, SHE DEFINITELY should have ended up with Jess, still should, don’t you think? Part of me guesses the baby is Chewbacca’s from the party she went to, but then there’s the whole theory that Logan is like her father Chris and she’s like her mom while Jess is like Luke, which leads me to believe she’ll end up with Jess which is a huge yes. He was always such a cutie and he grew up. Who doesn’t love Milo Ventimiglia? I mean Logan is cute, I loved their banter, but he’s treated her badly with cheating on his fiancee with her and all of that whole I don’t want to date you but now you’re dating my friend so I have to have you mess. Then taking his dad’s side, like come on. That is not how you get the girl. Am I right?” Okay maybe she glommed onto the wrong thing, but hey, she should remember his name now and won’t call him Hulk Hogan. Or Crusty. Or Rusty. Or Spitter. But then the topic changed to Derek and she had to agree. “Yep. I still don’t really like the guy, but as long as Avery’s happy, right?” Though, really she’d rather plan that relationship’s demise... But it’s bound to end, right?

“Well, yeah, I mean you’re clearly uncomfortable. Definitely adds to the whole dork persona, if you had some confidence, I think you could do great. After all nerd is the new sexy, have you not seen Zach Levi? Or... Barry Allen?” Though Barry Allen was a fictional character, he definitely was a smart geek and totally cute, she meant it as a compliment. He was adorable, he just needed a little work, and college would do that wouldn’t it? Cause him to grow up, fill out. He’s related to Avery so he could definitely pull it off. “Anyway, I’m completely sure, lay it on me, Logan. I’ve been told I’m good at helping.” Leading him down the walk way, she let her gaze shift to him, but before she could get going with her motor mouth, he was asking her questions. It was sweet, but was definitely avoiding the whole spilling his guts thing, maybe when they’re more stationary. “I don’t! I’m an open book, minus a few opinions -- like on Derek to Avery. I’m a marketing major, want to sell fashion or beauty. It’s the perfect industry for me, don’t you think?” Don’t underestimate her, though, Logan. She’s incredibly smart. Thinking otherwise would be a bit stereotyping. “You’re in engineering, right? What’s that like?”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“Derek, we all know putting on a nice red shade doesn’t cover up that you either have a case of herpes, or that you had a paddle go across your face.” Antoine couldn’t help but chuckle as Derek tried to be peaceful, as if he wasn’t a total asshole. “I’m sure it was his goal to earn your respect. But I don’t know, he seems pretty happy. He’s not in those stuffy suits you guys call clothes sipping sidecars and smoking cigars. He’s actually having fun, which I think college is suppose to be. He probably didn’t need a calculus class to do the math that you’re as lame as you are loyal, and we’re the funhouse.”

         :･ﾟ✧ “I THINK YOU NEED TO REMIND YOURSELF WHAT HERPES LOOKS LIKE, GENIUS, go check yourself in the bathroom, I think you’ll know, then.” It was hard to believe that the two of them used to be friends, it was a daring group of three, Derek, Antoine, and Avery. Then shit went down, and it led to this. Oh well. Now Derek was above him, but not above some shit that he was. “Sidecars and cigars how many times did you catch your grandma doing that, ‘Toine.” Still, Derek kept his composure. “I’m loyal to my brothers. What are you but second choice to everyone? Especially those that matter,” he clearly meant Avery. “Idiotic fun isn’t a way to live your life. Grow up, Antoine. Maybe then you’ll see.”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

Nadir looked over at the girl, an unimpressed look on her face as she rambled on about letting bygones be bygones, and all that jazz that she wasn’t interested in. “Hmm, I guess you should keep your boyfriend on a leash then. He seems like a wanderer,” she advised. “As for a mani-pedi, I’ll pass. You look like you could use one though. Maybe the whole spa works would do you some good,” she finished with a sweet smile.

         :･ﾟ✧ “DEREK IS WEAK. LIKE MOST MEN. SHOW HIM A STATUS SEEKING SLUT and he will be interested for a night, maybe a few, but you’re not special, sweetie. You’re the girl he cheated with, not the girl he’d marry. Get your kicks elsewhere. I’m not above giving your father PR scandals by selling information on you, fool me once shame on you.” Avery let her words drip over her smile. “And a nice eyebrow plucking would do good for you and your unibrow along with a wax for your mustache. Perhaps I’ll get you those instead.”

[greeklifed]

         :･ﾟ✧ “LOOK, I KNOW WE GOT OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT, WHAT WITH YOU HOOKING UP with my boyfriend and stealing, then returning my room and all, but we’re going to be sisters, so we need to sweep that under the rug and get to know each other, so how about a manicure and pedicure. My treat.” 

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

Logan had been stressed, so of course Avery hadn’t answered his phone calls or texts. He hadn’t expected the juggling act to be so hard, and he didn’t want to talk to Antoine about it - it oddly felt like he was letting him down if he admitted he couldn’t juggle being an engineering major and a KT, and Avery had been juggling hard classes and ZBZ for years, she had to have some advice on how to get through this. Or, she would if she answered her phone! 

Groaning, he rubbed his face and went inside the ZBZ house, weary of the last time he’d been in there and had been thrown out and stopped a tan girl, who happened to have the poor luck to be walking by the door at the right time. “Hey, listen… I’m looking for Avery. Is she here? I’ve been trying to call her, but -” And he paused, realizing he was rambling to a stranger and felt his cheeks burn. Scratching the back of his neck, he grimaced. “Uh, sorry. Er, just - never mind, sorry. Is Avery here? Or anywhere you know of?”

         :･ﾟ✧ BETWEEN HANDLING THE RUSH PARTY, THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING BOYFRIEND, the one Omega Chi pledge she’s been hanging out with, what was his name again? Melvin? No... Calvin. Yes, Calvin. And helping Avery with her Derek and Antoine problems, despite learning only after her brother had apparently barged into the sorority house that Avery even had a brother, so there went that, too... It was safe to say Mary Kate’s life was a bit of a mess. And that was without the other parties and her classes. How the girl managed to keep it together, sometimes even she didn’t know. But there she was in ZBZ and fashion perfection as she walked the house and kept up with Franny’s orders, just glad to have her bedroom back, when someone interrupted her thoughts and she looked outside at them. “You’re looking for Avery...” Younger than them and little dorky. He must be... “Oh! You’re her brother. Crusty or Hogan or something. I’m Mary Kate. Avery’s best friend and as far as I can tell, she’s still avoiding you since you punched her boyfriend. A plus by the way, but don’t tell her I told you that.” She turned, though, to face him as she spoke before continuing on.

“You... Don’t look so confident. I mean, she said you’re dorky, but you know... It seems like more than that right now, and I guess since you don’t have Avery, as her sororital other half and best friend, it’s my duty to step in as a surrogate Avery. No promises I’ll be great at it, but I wasn’t really doing anything,” she gestured toward the girls coming up to her to go away and ask someone else before stepping out and closing the door. “Need a drink? I’m buying.” She watched his face, “it’s fine. It’s just going to be tea or coffee. Not like you need the extra jitters, but I could use the energy. Walk with me.”

[greeklifed]

cyprusrhodesuni:

“So I heard my new pledge busted you up a bit at Doblers! I’m not sure if I should give him special treatment for being that badass, or be pissed that I didn’t get to tack a crack at you first.”

         :･ﾟ✧ “DO I LOOK BUSTED?” HIS LIP MAY HAVE SPLIT BUT THAT WAS IT, UNLESS maybe he’d covered it up. “Can’t fault a guy for protecting his sister,” Derek acted like it was nothing and shrugged. “Beside, he’s learned his lesson. And gained a bit of my respect, something that will go missing again if he continues down the route you’ve put him on. I thought engineering students made better decisions. Maybe the kid has a bit more to learn, don’t you think?”