As soon as I returned from Donald's, I received a text from Benji asking what I was up to, so I told him to meet me at my dorm room. Stacie was out with her friend from back home. Somehow Benji and I made it to my room at the same time and I fell onto my bed.

"Benjamin Applebottom, I'm in love." I spoke as I stared into the souless ceiling.

"Really? Ineresting." He replied taking a seat next to me. I looked at him and he was staring with raised eyebrows.

"Of course not, I like him though... like if he proves he is the perfect person he has the potential to be then I might"

"I see."

"At least he's fucking gorgeous." I exclaimed.

"yup, like chocolate." He attempted to agree. I threw my pillow at Benji and giggled.

"He wears a lot of plaid" Benji observed.

"I like Plaid" I responded. Benji turned his gaze toward me slowly and said with the most serious stature: "plaid on plaid on plaid on plaid" I laughed again.

…...

It was finally time for Benji to audition for the Treblemakers. He has been waiting to do this for years, and I wasn't going to miss what was basically the biggest moment in his life. After lending Stacie my white lace shirt, and putting on something to make myself attractive, we all exited my dorm room and went on our way to the auditorium. The two guys running the auditions had us sit in the audience to give us a speech. I wasn't listening much.

"If you think you can sing and dance your way through any social issue, or confused sexuality... That's high school. This shit, is real life!" I chuckled and turned to Benji

"Sounds like Glee" I whispered to him. Benji laughed too.

The one named Justin shot a glare in my direction. I smiled sweetly back at him and winked. He blushed.

"Charming" Benji whispered.

"Okay. Now we've prepped you. You'll wait back stage for your turn to sing, exit over there, and groups that are interested in you will contact you before six tonight. Everybody, go!" Justin spoke to the group of hopefuls, and me. I followed Benji and Stacie back stage. Somehow Benji ended up at the back of the line, but his roommate Jesse was right in front of him so they both had company. I snuck away and took a peek at the four A Capella groups. I caught Donald's eye and waved. He smiled back at me.

The auditions were great. Some were absolutely hilarious, and many were surprising. Fat Amy being hilarious, Jesse and Benji were great, and Stacie was... interesting. It was entertaining to say the least. Benji, Stacie, and I were watching the auditions from the audience and right as they were coming to a close another girl appeared from what seemed like nowhere.

"I didn't know we had to prepare that song." She said walking to the front of the stage.

"It's okay, you can sing anything you want" Chloe assured her. Becca grabbed a cup and used it to sing her song. It was artsy and catchy, and her voice was one of the best I've heard that day. Not including Benji and Jesse of course. Speaking of the devil, Benji hit my arm repeatedly and whispered, "That's the girl Jesse likes! He works with her!"

"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, her dad teaches comparative literature here. She's in my intro to philosophy class." I whispered in reply. She was pretty, without looking like she cared too much. From where I was sitting I could see Jesse peeking at her from backstage. Adorable.

Speaking of peeking (ha!) I looked over at where Donald was sitting with the rest of the Treble Makers. He caught my eye and motioned for me to come over to him.

"Hey guys," I spoke at my normal volume since the auditions had actually came to a close, "I'll see you later I'm going to go say hi to Donald" Benji and Stacie said their goodbyes and everybody in the auditorium began to disperse. I walked toward Donald, and he met me halfway in one of the aisles.

"Hey" I smiled up at him.

"Hey, so I have to run some errands for the initiation party tonight... do you want to come with me?" He spoke with his hands in his pockets and looked reserved like I was going to say 'Absolutely not' or something along those lines. Of course I want to go!

"Yeah, sure. When do you want to go?" I asked, excited about being alone with him again.

"right now" he said, then led me out of the auditorium and into his car.

"What'd you think of the auditions?" Donald asked.

"They were... entertaining," we both laughed, "I thought Benji and Jesse were really great. So was Becca. The cups thing was cool."

"That girl Sacie was also... interesting." Donald observed. I laughed again.

"Yeah, she's my roommate."

"No way! Does she sing like that in your room?" Donald asked excitedly.

"She practices in the mirror.." I responded. Donald was almost brought to tears from laughing so hard, which caused me to join in.

"It's not that funny," I said. Donald gave me a look. "Okay, it's pretty funny. Minus the dramatics she can sing." she was nice, so I had to stick up for her somewhere.

"I'll give you that. ,She can almost get away with it because she's good looking." Donald observed. Very true.

Soon after, we arrived at a liquor store in a pretty deserted part of town. It looked ran down and kind of sketchy.

"are you even twenty one?" I asked as we headed toward the door.

"Nope, twenty but for all this guy knows I'm my brother, and I'm Twenty three, we're cool." Donald winked.

The man behind the counter was probably in his sixties. He greeted Donald cheerily by what I assumed was his brother's name. Donald had me help him carry what felt like a literal ton of alcohol to the counter. Donald introduced me as we paid for the drinks.

"This is my friend Emma, she goes to University with me" Donald spoke to the man.

"Hi, nice to meet you." I said politely. He said hello

Our total was outrageous, but Donald whipped out a wad of cash like it was no biggie.

"Dang playa, where did that come from?" I joked

"All of the a capella groups on campus pool together money for booze for this party tonight." Donald responded.

"So it's kind of a big deal?" I asked, now curious.

"Yeah. It's tradition." he shrugged.

***I broke off this chapter randomly because my computer was malfunctioning when i wrote it and the next chapter continues where this one leaves off***