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“Where’s Chuck?” Caed from the coolers that lined the floors in the kitchen of the frat house ere hanging out in The house was Ga or other Honestly, I couldn’t remember, and I didn’t care They were all the same to me anyway

“Who knows? Playing darts with the guys, I think” Hopefully, they were using his head as the dartboard

“You twoher eyebrows

“I think you misunderstood me, sweets When I said, ‘who knows,’ I ht in his egotistical ass,” I corrected her, not feeling very appreciative of the guy as supposed to be my current boyfriend Of course, after only two dates, it didn’t seeht to fall into that trap, as far as I was concerned

She laughed, taking a long drink fro “Another one bites the dust,” she continued, holding up her bottle to toast

“Cheers,” I answered, clinking my bottle to hers without further comment I twisted the cap off my beer as I surveyed the rowdy crowd around us The decibel level at frat parties was always nothing less than near deafening Not that I was coot, the better This was the kind of scene I didn’t see when I still lived at ho to an actual university was like stepping into another world A world that I took to immediately I was loud and raucous, so what?

Cameo and I left the kitchen and headed outside to the patio, which gave us a front-row seat to all the action The guys were entertaining the crowd by trying to one-up each other with one crazy stunt after the next We’d already seen so a mattress Cheers erupted on the front lawn as people hooted and hollered, yelling scores for his landing He stood up with his ar his cookies splendidly on two unsuspecting girls who stood off to the side Both girls shrieked with disgust, which only invited more cheers from the onlookers

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to be outdone, a group of girls decided to get in on the action when the guys initiated a girl-on-girlsoaked by hoses spilling water at full blast, the front lawn of the fraternity house was a soppingby the steady line of participants that had quickly formed, the no subjected toaround like pigs in shit

“You going?” Cameo asked

“Hell no,” I answered, choosing to keep my seat on the sidelines

I’d been there, done that, and I didn’t relish taking an elbow in the nose or having a handful of uys Chuck, who had finally appeared froh his thick head that I didn’t want to participate It tookto twist his junk into a knot before he finally stopped trying to pull me into the fray

“Aw, you ive your boyfriend a show and roll around and get all ith another girl?” Cahts She looked halfway past tipsy as she smiled at me

We had been at the party for an hour and were nursing our third beer each I could hold ht Chances were I’d be dragging her ass home later since she’d barely be able to walk She and I had made a pact e first became roommates that ould never leave the other behind, unless of course a hot guy was involved Little did I realize when Imost of the load