#tri-fruhm

[brokenstrangetown]

"Expelled! But - you were studying -" "Yeah, studying and learning aren't the same thing."

"S'okay. I'm a big girl and this is Strangetown, not Bigg City. I can manage without a degree. Keep an eye on Isaiah for me." "You know I will."

"So this is good-bye?" "As if! Naw, this is see you later."

"Wait, is it true? Is she going?"

"Good-bye, Sharla! We'll miss you!" "I won't!" "Same and same!"

"Huh. I can't believe she really flunked out. But hey, at least now I get her room!"

"I'm really glad you joined the sorority, Sam! It'd feel empty without Sharla, if you hadn't."

[penig]

Emily is still buzzing when the party wraps up. She can't make herself go to bed. 

[brokenstrangetown]

Kelly misses Meredith desperately, and invites her over. 

Gabriella tries to greet her as a sister, but she seems skittish.

"I miss you so much. As soon as I can get into an apartment we'll get you out of that trailer and start our lives together." "Yeah, we sure will."

"Can you believe Lloyd got mad at Sharla for dancing with Isaiah at the frat the other night? I can't believe the sense of entitlement guys like him have."

"Yeah, um, that's not cheating at all! Not when she's with her fiance! You can't even really cheat on a side date, can you?"

"Gotta run - working tomorrow! Love you! Bye!" Meredith seems a little off, but Kelly can see it. Living with Tina's parents in that tiny trailer has to be nervewracking.

Carole decides to study up on relationships and how to keep a marriage strong. She has a feeling she's going to need that information.

[brokenstrangetown]

Tri-Fruhm

With Meredith gone, Sam moves in. There's a lot she's still figuring out about herself, and she feels a little bad about leaving Jared on his own, but the sorority seems like a really good place to learn who she is, and living with someone generally assumed to be female will give potential girlfriends the wrong idea about Jared, so this really does seem to be for the best. Also, there's a cockatoo here, and it's hard to refuse that!

"Welcome to the special club, girl!" “Possibly not a girl.” “Then welcome to the special club, whatever you wind up being!”

Carole is full of confusing feelings herself, and since taking them out on Sharla would be unacceptable, she pours them into music.

"Oh, wow, I didn't know it ever snowed like that here! A good day to hang inside, maybe practice my oral."

"Play it, Carole!" "Stuff it, Sharla!"

[brokenstrangetown]

"So what're you majoring in, Ora?" "Majoring? Um, dating, mostly."

Kelly figures she may as well preside over the young'un's good time.

Pillow fights? How male-gazy...on the other hand, no males are gazing and the girls are laughing so maybe she shouldn't be judgy.

Parties come and parties go, but weeds are eternal.

Huh. Underclassmen really shouldn't leave diaries lying around where just anyone should read them...

[brokenstrangetown]

Sharla's departure has reduced the number of parties in the house. Sam figures its her job to rectify that.

Gabriella goes through the sorority's accumulated records and puts together a party mix.

"That's my fiancee, being an excellent DJ!"

But she has to get out of the booth to get into her toga, and Juan is right there...somebody else can do the honors.

"Bawk bawk bawk!" "Flap flap shhh! How on earth did they pick us for this?" "I have no idea but I intend to secret handshake every chance I get!"

[brokenstrangetown]

Carole figures the way to keep her resolve is to date her fiance early and often.

Ty doesn't focus in the date as well as she does, but she doesn't mind that. Too much.

"You sure you're not hungry?" "Naw, full of frat pizza."

He's always up for dancing, anyhow.

"So, all the way up to my room." "Or you've got a perfectly good hot tub." "It's too hot for the hot tub."

"It's pretty hot up here, too." "Shut up and kiss me." "Okay. Where shall I kiss you?" "Everywhere!"

[brokenstrangetown]

"Look, not that you're not welcome here and all, but - I need that computer. I've got a term paper." "Why on earth do you want to do a term paper?"

"Sometimes I feel like there's something I'm not seeing, with Carole; but I have excellent vision."

"All squared away?" "Yeah, finally. That bibliography'd break an elephant's back."

"Now you can relax and stop worrying, okay?"