Regina was holding one of those red cups filled about halfway with cheap beer. She wasn’t drinking it, but she figured that if she at least took it from the fraternity president currently working very hard to get into her pants, he would stop bugging her to drink.
Despite her negative relationship with her older sister, Regina was already a shoe-in for Zelena’s sorority. Especially since their mother was chapter president twenty-five years ago. Inhaling deeply, she pretended to take interest in Leo’s stories while also answering his questions in a clipped tone.
When he started to talk about one night he “got so wasted,” Regina finally had enough. Tilting her head back, she downed the entire half-cup of warm beer and handed him the cup. “Get me another?” She half-requested, half-demanded. When he smiled, she offered him a tense smile in return, and once his back was turned, she darted away.
Regina managed to find a corner where she could get away for a moment out of view of the other people at the party. She took a few deep breaths, hoping that maybe Leo had found someone else to talk to. Stepping out of seclusion, she headed back into the party.
After a minute, a redhead approached her. Regina remembered her from one of the events earlier. “Hi,” she replied. “I’m sorry… I remember meeting you, but I don’t remember your name.”
“Oh, you’re fine.” Ariel assured the other girl when she admitted to having forgotten her name. She extended her hand. “Name’s Ariel Trident. They sat us at the same table for ice breakers the first day of Rush.”
After that session however, they didn’t really get grouped together. Which was expected given the sororities hosting Rush Week wanted to meet each girl and mix groups up to see how they all got along and better determine which rushees they would want to extend a bid to.
“You’re from the Mills family, right?” She asked, smiling widely, a little relieved to have someone else to talk to in the house that wasn’t a pretentious frat boy jock. “I’m a legacy, too -- from my mother’s side. My mother attended school here about twenty-three, twenty-four years ago.”
