E-O4evah: I'm glad you loved it. I hope this one was posted soon enough for you. :) juicetroop82: Alex and Liv are definitely going to have a talk. Liv is about to realize something very soon. Sidle13: Alex having a boy would be very cute. I could just imagine a little blonde male version of Alex. haha. Little Liv would be absolutely adorable. litafan82: I'll admit, she IS meddling right now. haha. Little Miss Southerlyn needs to keep her woman out of other people's business. ladylips: I totally agree with you. Abbie and Olivia need to grow up very very soon, but trust me when I say that it will definitely happen. I won't have them immature forever. :) charmedbywits: Wow, thank you for the issues that you brought up in your review. I'm taking all of that into consideration and I hope you don't mind if I use some of those issues as subjects of future chapters. :)


The next morning, Alex woke up to the sound of Abbie and Olivia loudly playing video games in the living room. Judging by the music coming from the video game, she knew it had to be Donkey Kong Country, her favorite game. Whenever she would visit Olivia at her apartment, the two of them would always play that game as a team because they wanted to work together. By the end of the night, there would always be an empty pizza box, two empty Coke cans, and a very accomplished Alex and Olivia. After that, they would put on a movie and cuddle with each other until they fell asleep. Alex missed those days and she had assumed that would happen again now that they had their own apartment, but she knew it couldn't be any farther from the truth. She was just a girlfriend now or someone Olivia slept next to at night.

Thanks for waking me up, guys, Alex thought as she got out of bed and grabbed some clothes and underwear. Without even acknowledging them, she went over to the bathroom and got in the shower.

"What's her problem?" Abbie asked. "Not saying hi to us is a bitch move."

"She just hasn't been herself lately," Olivia pointed out.

"Or maybe these are her true colors. I mean, she's Lex," Abbie said as she opened a juice box for herself and then tossed one to Olivia.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Olivia asked.

"Nothin'," Abbie responded, hoping she hadn't offended Olivia. "Tell me about Ezra. Better yet, I'll tell you about Ezra. I'm thinking we should buy her a onesie, a cool one. I found this store that sells the so many different kinds: Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Hole—so many, Olivia. We should go check them out this week. Kurt could even wear them, too."

Olivia was about to respond when the girls heard a knock at their door.

"Is it Rena?" Olivia asked.

"No, she's still in bed," Abbie told her. "I wore her out last night."

Neither girl wanted to answer the door, so they played a quick game of Rock, Paper, Scissors to determine who would have to answer it. When Abbie looked through the peephole, she saw three similar-looking girls standing outside their door.

"Liv, there are three very blonde, very preppy looking girls standing outside of our door, which can only mean one thing."

"What?" Olivia asked, confused.

"They're here for your girlfriend's soul. Quick, hide Alex before it's too late."

Olivia rolled her eyes and went over to the door. She scooted Abbie out of the way and decided to take a look for herself. What she saw were three girls with different Beta Gamma t-shirts and matching denim shorts. One of them was carrying a gift bag with the Beta Gamma letters drawn on them. Olivia recognized one of the girls as Bree and she knew she had met the other two before, but she couldn't remember their names for the life of her.

"Hello?" Bree called out. "Does Alex live here?"

"Hey, Bree," Olivia said as she opened the door. "Come in."

After hugging Olivia, the three girls walked into the apartment and Abbie couldn't help but stare. Olivia gave her a pleading look and hoped that she would keep all of her comments to herself. Abbie's only response was a wink and Olivia had no idea what direction this was going to take.

"Hi, I'm Abbie," she said as she got up to shake their hands. "You must be Alex's sorority sisters."

"Yeah, we pledged with her and shared a room with her. Well, Bree and I did," one of them said excitedly. "I'm Mindy."

"I'm Stacy, Alex's Lil Sis," another one of them said. Abbie was thrown off guard when the peppy blonde decided to hug her instead of shake her hand.

"I'm Bree," the third one said casually.

As Abbie took another look at the three girls, she noticed that, not only were they all blonde, but they all had blue eyes, a similar build, and hair just like Alex's. When they sat down, Abbie also noticed that they all crossed their legs the same way. She started imaging the future that was in store for these three girls and she felt as if it was pretty bleak.

At the sound of her sorority sisters' voices, Alex hurried out of the shower and quickly put her make-up on. She didn't look perfect but these girls were sisters and she knew that they loved her for better or for worse.

"Big!" Stacy said in a squeaky voice as she ran to hug Alex.

"Lil!" Alex said and hugged her tightly. "I missed you so much."

"Come back to Princeton," Stacy pleaded. "I can't live without you, Big."

"She's just drama," Bree said and started laughing. "But we do miss you, Alex."

"Bubbles? You're here, too?" Alex asked. "And you're still sitting on the couch? It's time for a Beta Gamma group hug!"

"Sorry, Skittles," Mindy said and made her way over to Alex. The four girls shared a group hug while Abbie and Olivia couldn't help but roll their eyes.

"Skittles?" Olivia asked once Alex and her sorority sisters had made themselves comfortable on the couch.

"That's my nickname," Alex said excitedly.

"Why?" Abbie asked.

"Taste the rainbow," Mindy said and the four Beta Gamma girls started laughing. "Dana Miles, our former president, gave her that nickname when we were pledges. Well, she didn't give it to her. Alex earned it because of that time when she—"

"Mindy!" Alex said and covered her sister's mouth. "Nobody wants to hear that story."

"Sorry," Mindy said, embarrassed. "But Dana lives in New York now. She's in her third year of law school at NYU."

"That's great!" Stacy said excitedly. "Big, maybe we could visit her and she could give you pointers on law school applications!"

"I don't think that's such a great idea," Alex said nervously. She flashed Olivia an apologetic look, but Olivia was too busy exchanging bored glances with Abbie to even notice her. Dana had graduated from Princeton long before Stacy started attending, so she knew her Lil Sis had no idea about their affair during Alex's freshman year and all of the drama that followed.

"So what brings you three to New York?" Olivia asked to change the subject. She honestly didn't care why the girls were there; she just didn't want to hear another word about Dana.

"We were all hanging out in the Beta Gamma house," Bree told her.

"And we heard a Tori Amos song—Alex's favorite," Mindy added.

"Yeah," Stacy said. "We cry every time we hear 'Cornflake Girl' because we miss Alex so much and it just happened to come on the radio. It was a sign."

"So we decided to come visit her," Bree said.

"And we got a hotel room for the night, Alex," Mindy informed her, "which means you're staying with us."

"I'll pack a bag," Alex said excitedly before rushing over to the room.

"Since when does Alex like Tori Amos?" Olivia asked the girls.

"How do you not know that?" Bree asked. "I would think you'd know your girlfriend's favorite singer."

"She thinks Tori is so hot," Stacy said. "Alex and I even have Tori Amos sing-a-longs in her car. They're so much fun."

"I thought Mazzy Starr was her favorite," Olivia said, confused.

"You thought wrong, Olivia," Bree said curtly. "She only likes Mazzy Starr because the two of you listen to that same song before you have sex and now she associates that song with sex."

To lighten the mood, Mindy started laughing about a memory she had of Alex. "Oh my goodness, you guys."

"What?" Stacy asked.

"Do you remember that time when we were walking home from that party and Alex was so plastered that she grabbed my hand and made me skip with her back to the house while we sang 'I Enjoy Being A Girl'," Mindy told them.

"When I've got a brand new hairdo with my eyelashes all in curls, I float as the clouds on air do. I enjoy being a girl," all three of the Beta Gamma girls started singing until they laughed uncontrollably.

"My favorite memory of Alex is that time we were at the bar and she was drinking margaritas out of a blender," Bree said.

"Out of a blender?" Abbie asked.

"Yeah, it was right before last call," Bree told her. "She bought a blender full of margaritas because this frat guy Joey dared her to. The two of them challenged each other to a chugging contest and she won! I kid you not. Alex chugged that faster than a frat guy could."

"I don't believe you," Olivia said.

"We'll take you to the bar and show you," Bree told her. "They now serve margaritas out of a blender there. On the menu, it's called the Cabot Chug. Isn't that wild? The whole sorority was so proud of her that night."

"None of this sounds like Alex," Abbie told her. "Around Liv and me she's so boring."

"No, she's not," Mindy insisted. "Alex is a legend at our house."

"She's really fun when she's around people who make her feel comfortable and people who love her for who she is," Bree added.

"Maybe she just isn't comfortable around you guys," Stacy blurted out and immediately regretted what she had said.

"That's bullshit," Olivia said angrily. "She didn't even like being a Beta Gamma."

"Or so you think," Mindy informed her. "She loved it, but she felt as if she had to choose between being at Princeton and being with you and she said that you pressured her into leaving so you two could live together."

"I didn't do that," Olivia insisted.

"Yes, you did," Bree told Olivia. "Alex cried about it and wondered if she had made the right decision. She also called us and said that you two are leaving her out and that you're not being a good girlfriend to her."

"We love Alex," Stacy said. "And we want her to be happy."

"I want her to be happy, too," Olivia said. "Alex is everything to me."

"Then be a good girlfriend for once," Bree said angrily. The tone of voice coming from this girl scared Abbie and Olivia. "You've been putting Alex through hell for three years now. During her last two years, you were always so whiny and forcing her to go to New York for the weekend instead of allowing her to have fun with her friends, but freshman year was the worst. First, the two of you were broken up the summer we started Princeton because you made out with Jenny and then you had the audacity to live with that girl. Alex was a nervous wreck that whole summer because of Jenny and the fact that you two kept breaking up and getting back together. You were in a different state, Olivia. You didn't see how much she cried for you. She stopped hooking up with Dana in October of our freshman year because the girl roofied her at a party because she wanted to 'offer' Alex to some frat guys as part of some sick dare. I'm the only one who knows it because I got to Alex before the guys did. There were four of them, Olivia, and I shudder to think what could have happened to her. She was so young—only 18—and I know they wanted to video tape the whole thing because one of the guys got out a camera and was high-fived by some of his other frat brothers."

Olivia didn't want to cry in front of these girls, but she couldn't stop the tears from forming in the corners of her eyes. "Why didn't she tell me?"

"Because you stopped giving a damn about her," Bree told her. "You were fucking all these random girls."

"I never stopped giving a damn about Alex. She told me to stay out of her life, so that's why I stopped calling and that's why I stopped writing to her."

"She just wanted you to fight for her," Bree insisted. "Kind of like she wants you to fight for her now. She loves you, Olivia. I don't know why she loves you, but she really does. Quite frankly, I don't think you deserve Alex. She sacrificed so much for you and you don't appreciate that."

The moment Alex came out of the bedroom with her bag packed and her hair neatly combed, her sisters were able to instantly go from the three girls who were telling off Olivia to the three perky girls that Alex loved. The way they were able to transition so quickly scared the hell out of Abbie and Olivia, but there was no way they would let them see their fear.

"Skittles!" Mindy said excitedly. "We have a gift for you!"

"Open it! The suspense is killing me!" Stacy said as she wrapped her arms around Alex. "We hope you love it."

Alex quickly took the tissue paper out of the bag and pulled out a baby blue Beta Gamma alumni shirt with her nickname 'Skittles' printed on the back over the number '95' for the year she had graduated.

"Thank you," Alex said and suggested another group hug. Without caring who was looking at her, she took her other shirt off and put her alumni shirt on. Alex looked at the three cheerful girls who had traveled from Princeton just to visit her and she felt as if she was home again. Tonight there would be no feeling like the third wheel. Her girls had an entire day planned for her that started with lunch followed by shopping, sightseeing, and a Beta Gamma sleepover.

"Princeton Beta Gammas take Manhattan," Stacy said excitedly as they were heading out the door. "That's going to be the title of this scrap book. I love it. I just love it."

Once the door was shut, Olivia was left alone with Abbie. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"Do I look okay?" Olivia responded angrily. "I really don't know how to feel right now. The love of my life could have been gang-raped by a group of frat boys and I didn't do anything about it."

"You didn't know about it, Liv," Abbie pointed out. "Besides, no one touched her. Lex is okay."

"She didn't tell me, but I should have known," Olivia insisted. "Alex stopped talking to me and I know she has stopped talking to me before, but that usually lasted a little while. The woman I love was traumatized her entire freshman year and I was out fucking other girls because I was whining about her not loving me."

"But you're there for her now, Liv."

"Am I?" Olivia asked. "I'm obviously not if she told her sisters otherwise. They're right, Alex has sacrificed so much and I don't even appreciate it. She's been there for me since I was four and I've started taking her for granted because I assume she's always going to be there—but what if she's not always going to be there? What if she finds someone else? What if I don't deserve her?"

"Do you really want to listen to those girls, Liv?" Abbie asked. "Look at them. They look like Barbie triplets. You know what their future is going to be like. They'll all marry investment bankers or plastic surgeons and sip martinis at the their summer house in the Hamptons while they reminisce about their sorority days because absolutely nothing exciting has happened to them since they were in college."

Olivia looked at Abbie who seemed a little too anxious for her liking. Their video game was still on pause and Abbie was looking for something—anything—to take Olivia's mind off of what had just happened. She picked up the controller that Abbie handed her and started playing the game all the while thinking of ways to spoil Alex.