Episode #14: Still in the Game
Setting: At the end of Greek Week
Synopsis: The competition of Greek Week winds down, but not before KT, Omega Chi, and Lambda Sig compete for the fraternity win. Meanwhile, Cappie and Casey continue their wedding plans, Katherine has a bit of a scare in her life, Ashleigh comes to a realization about her relationship with Rusty, and Kelsey receives a phone call that causes her to finally make some changes.
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"We sure did a heck of a job this week, didn't we?" he asked Rusty as they were standing amongst the crowd on the campus quad, anxiously awaiting the results of the last official day of Greek Week.
"Yeah, we did!" Rusty said excitedly. "Yesterday, we were ahead of Omega Chi but Lambda Sig was ahead of us, but we did great today so I think we might have pulled it off."
"Attention please, everyone!" Trip announced suddenly over the microphone. "So the results are in, and it seems the competition isn't over just yet. For three fraternities, at least."
"So we must've tied," Rusty whispered.
"We have a winning sorority, and I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone that the winner is Zeta Beta Zeta," Trip announced, and the ZBZ sisters started clapping and cheering loudly, as Rebecca walked up to the podium to claim the ZBZ trophy.
"And now we're defending champs six years in a row!" Rebecca exclaimed. "Take that, Gamma Psi."
"And for the first time ever, we end our last day of Greek Week with a three way tie among the fraternities," Trip continued. "The houses with the tie are Omega Chi, Lambda Sig, and Kappa Tau. Since IFC and Pan-Hellenic weren't really expecting this, we don't exactly have a tiebreaker event planned…"
"You should let us pick one," Abby spoke up, walking over next to Rebecca. "Since we're the winning sorority and all, we'll come up with an event for them to do."
"To make things interesting, why not," Trip said. "Come up with an event by tonight, our houses will have tomorrow to prepare, and we'll hold it on Sunday and then announce the winning fraternity."
"I hope they don't make us sing or dance or something lame," a KT brother said as the KT guys gathered after Trip finished talking. "But they're girls, so who knows what they'll throw us."
"Well, whatever they decide, we'll be ready for it," Spidey said. "We've come this close, and there's no way we're giving up now."
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"Hey Cap," Casey said as she sat down next to Cappie, who was sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and the TV on. "So I was thinking this weekend we should go make our wedding registry; what do you think?"
"Wedding registry?" Cappie asked. "Isn't that where we go to a store and we get to play with one of those scanner things and pick out all the stuff we want?"
"In your words, yeah that's pretty much what it is," Casey said with a laugh. "People at work have asked me where we're registered, and my aunt told me today she wants to have a bridal shower for me next month. Ash kind of hinted to me when she was here that she's planning one for me in Cyprus, but I really wasn't expecting anything here. I mean, I know my co-workers and we get along really well, but we're not exactly close friends and they're still excited about me getting married."
"That's really nice of them," Cappie said. "It really sounds like you've found yourself in a good part of politics, which is actually really hard to do nowadays."
"You're right about that," Casey said, grabbing some popcorn from his bowl. "Wait; is this 'A Wedding Story'?" She noticed what was playing on TV after the commercial break ended.
"Yeah, I just happened to notice there was a marathon on today so I started watching," Cappie said. "Some of these weddings are actually pretty interesting."
"I watch this show sometimes when you're gone," Casey said. "Just thinking about how very soon, that's going to be you and me."
"Believe me, that's what I've been thinking as I've been watching," Cappie said, as Casey leaned up against him and he put an arm around her. "As for the wedding registry, I'm in. But I'll warn you; you'll probably have to restrain me from taking the scanner and scanning everything in the store. Not because I really want everything, but just because those things look so much fun to play with."
"You are such a child," Casey said jokingly and laughed as they continued watching the current couple who was planning their wedding on the TV.
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"Hey, are you coming or what?" Rebecca asked, entering her little sisters' room. "Party at Dobler's, which was supposed to be to celebrate the end of Greek Week, but since it's technically not over yet, it's actually more of a celebration for us!"
"Of course; I'm ready!" Heather said excitedly.
"You guys go ahead; I may catch up with you later," Kelsey said. "I've just got to take care of some things first."
"What's going on?" Rebecca asked.
"I don't know yet," Kelsey said. "I got a voicemail from my best friend at Penn State and she said it was urgent and to call her back. Well now I can't reach her so I'm just going to wait a while and see if I can. We haven't talked in almost a month so I'm kinda worried now."
"'Urgent' can mean a lot of things," Rebecca said. "It doesn't always mean bad. Maybe she's just freaking out about an outfit or something."
"I hope it's nothing more than that," Kelsey said with a sigh. "Hopefully I'll meet you at Dobler's later."
"Text us if you need anything and when you're coming over," Heather said.
"Will do," Kelsey said and Rebecca and Heather left. Her phone rang just then. "Who died?" she answered suddenly without even looking at the caller ID.
"Well, I hope nobody died," Spidey said concerned on the other end. "What's going on? Should I be worried?"
"Oh, it's you," Kelsey said. "Sorry, I thought you were Amber, my best friend from Penn State who I need to reach, like now."
"I was just calling to say we're all at the party at Dobler's and I thought you were coming over," Spidey said. "But really, is everything okay?"
"Okay, I will be there as soon as I get a hold of her," Kelsey said. "I don't know what's going on. She left me a voicemail and she sounded like something happened so I need to find out."
"I hope it's nothing serious," Spidey said. "Please, call me back once you talk to her."
"Yeah, I will," Kelsey said.
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"So let me get this straight," Dale said to Calvin as they walked into Dobler's. "We have to build a boat. Out of cardboard and duct tape. And race it across Cyprus Lake against KT and Lambda Sig. Cyprus Lake is gross and unsanitary. Who dreamed this up?"
"Apparently ZBZ did," Calvin said. "And if we build a good boat, we don't have to worry about how gross the water is because nobody will fall in it."
(A/N: This is actually something my school puts on for fun every year. Basically what you do is you make a boat out of cardboard and wrap it in duct tape so it doesn't get wet, and you make oars out of cardboard and duct tape, too. Then two people are in each boat and we race them on the water across and back. It's a lot of fun and pretty intense, and I figured if we can do it, a bunch of frat guys could do it for a competition, too! :D)
"Well I'm sure there's a science behind this kind of thing," Dale said. "I bet I could figure out the exact dimensions and amount of cardboard and duct tape we need to make it work."
"But we also know someone else who I'm sure will know how to do that, too," Calvin said. "I'm sure Rusty and his little brother are going to be doing the exact same thing for KT. I think it's going to be a tough competition."
"But if you think about it, I think we have an advantage," Dale said. "Lambda Sig has a house full of jocks with no brains. They may be fast, but if they can't build a boat right, they stand no chance at winning. No offense to KT, but they're not athletic in any way, shape, or form. It was all strategy that helped them this week. Whereas us, we've got athletic guys and brains."
"Hmm, maybe you're right," Calvin said. "So now, we need cardboard, and lots of it. Hey, I'm sure they have a ton right here at Dobler's. Let's go ask the manager." They approached the bar and then saw Rusty standing there.
"Hey guys," Rusty greeted. "I guess you heard about the boat race."
"Yeah, we were actually going to ask the manager for some extra cardboard," Calvin said. "Have you seen him around?"
"Yeah, I actually just asked him for some," Rusty said. "Sorry, he said he didn't have much."
"It's fine; we'll find some somewhere else," Calvin said.
"I hope you're ready for us to give you a run for your money, though," Dale joked.
"As long as you're ready for us to give you a run for yours!" Rusty said back.
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"Well if this is the kind of crap you want me to deal with in order to have your support, then maybe I'll be a lot better off without your support now!" Kelsey said angrily into her phone and slammed it, before pulling open her door and walking into the hall.
"Hey," Spidey greeted from behind her, causing her to turn around in shock.
"Good grief!" Kelsey yelled quickly. "You scared the bajeezus out of me! It freaks me out when I'm alone in this house! How'd you get in here, anyway?"
"I snuck in through the balcony door of Rebecca's room," Spidey said. "I had to see if you were okay. You had me worried from the moment you asked me who died on the phone."
"It's fine," Kelsey said trying to convince him. "Really, I saw this coming from a mile away and yet I still took all of his crap just to get my parents' support…"
"Wait, him?" Spidey interrupted. "So that's what your friend wanted to tell you. What did that idiot do now?"
"Amber was at this fraternity party last night with some of our other friends," Kelsey said. "And they saw Robert there, not with his guy friends, but he was with…some other girl. And then later, Amber had to go and find the bathroom; well the first door she opened was not the bathroom. It was one of the bedrooms. And guess who she found in there about to hook up; my so-called boyfriend and some freshman slut! Apparently he found out about us at New Years' and did this to get back at me. I guess I deserved it."
"Don't say that, because you didn't deserve it," Spidey said. "You and me, we made a mistake, but what he did was just downright low. He purposely cheated on you in revenge. What a jerk! I'm so sorry."
"You shouldn't have any reason to be sorry," Kelsey said. "I'm the idiot. You and Ash and everyone else who's actually my friend had him figured out from the beginning. Even Amber's been watching him like a hawk since I transferred here last year, just waiting for him to mess up. I should have come to my senses and ended things after New Years', and probably even before then. But I did it now; I finally told him that it's over, for good. But now he's pissed, my parents are pissed, and this whole thing just sucks and I don't know what to do."
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"Hey Beav, is Katherine here?" Ashleigh asked once Beaver opened his apartment door. "We've got our appointment at the bridal shop for our dress fitting."
"Oh, I thought she already called you," Beaver said. "She's sick in bed, unfortunately."
"She's still sick?" Ashleigh asked concerned. "She was sick last week but I thought she was better. You should probably take her to the doctor."
"I know I need to," Beaver began. "But I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?" Ashleigh asked confused.
"How do you know if you're like, you know, well, the 'P' word?" Beaver asked suddenly.
"Whoa, back up," Ashleigh said surprised. "Do you mean the 'P' word as in pregnant?"
"Yeah, that word," Beaver said.
"Okay, first of all, you're asking this question to someone who's never been pregnant before," Ashleigh said. "And second of all, you really think she might be pregnant?"
"I don't know," Beaver said. "She's been sick off and on, she gets sicker when she eats certain things, and she's been really tired a lot."
"Yeah, you need to take her to the doctor," Ashleigh said.
"She can't have something going on, you know, in the stomach area," Beaver said, getting worried now. "I've got twenty kids now, none of who live with me. I can't imagine having to take care of a kid who does live with me and is my own right now."
"Don't freak out about it; she may not even be pregnant," Ashleigh said. "I hope she's not, because right now you can't even say the word 'pregnant'. But you need to find out what's really going on."
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"Morning, sleepyhead," Casey said to Cappie as he came out of their bedroom.
"Morning," Cappie smiled and kissed her. He noticed she was surrounded by papers where she was sitting at the table. "Are these all the RSVP's we've gotten from people?" He picked up one of them."
"Yeah, we got more in the mail yesterday and I'm so behind on sorting through them," Casey said. "You'll be happy to know a lot of your relatives in California are coming."
"April and Tobias said a lot of them are making the trip out here together," Cappie said. "By the wedding it'll be a year since I've seen any of them, so it'll be good to see them." Casey's phone rang just then.
"It's Katherine," Casey said to Cappie.
"I'll hop in the shower when you're talking to her, then we can hit the store," Cappie said.
"Sounds good," Casey said and then answered her phone. "Hello."
"Casey, thank God you answered," Katherine said in a slight panic.
"Is everything okay?" Casey asked. "You're not still sick, are you?"
"I'm worried because I was sick earlier this morning after breakfast, but now I'm not," Katherine said. "And this has been happening for about the past week; I can be sick one minute but later in the day I feel better. I know you're not a doctor but I remember you saying you went through something similar with Cappie, so how did you know when you thought you were pregnant?"
"You really think you might be pregnant?" Casey asked. "And what happened with me and Cappie was I found out the next day, and I just took the morning after pill."
"Oh," Katherine said. "And I don't know if I'm pregnant; I mean I'm on the pill of course but that isn't always 100 percent effective."
"There could be another reason you've been sick like this," Casey said. "I really think you should go to the doctor."
"This is like the first time in my life I've been afraid to go to a doctor," Katherine said. "I can't tell Walter this is what I'm thinking or else he'll react worse than me."
"I'd say the more you put it off, the more stress you're going to put yourself through," Casey said. "If you've been sick all week, I'm sure he's worried too."
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"See, I told you you'd love the dresses," Ashleigh said excitedly to Rebecca as they walked out of the bridal shop.
"When you said they were pink I had to admit I thought they'd be a little too much," Rebecca said. "But they look amazing on us."
"Yeah they do," Ashleigh smiled. "You know, doing all this wedding stuff for Casey is great, and it's really making me think…well, maybe I shouldn't really say this right now."
"Say what?" Rebecca asked curiously. "Come on, tell me."
"Well, it's making me think that I really want to get married," Ashleigh said. "Or at least engaged."
"Oh wow," Rebecca said surprised. "You mean to Rusty?"
"No, to Orlando Bloom," Ashleigh said sarcastically. "Yes I mean to Rusty. I've really been thinking about it a lot lately. I haven't told him or anyone else besides you, though."
"You'd be a fool if you thought that he didn't want to marry you," Rebecca said. "I've seen the way he looks at you and it just shows you're the best thing that's ever happened to him. But you're not going to get him to propose to you by telling me about it."
"I just don't want to push the idea with him just yet if he's not ready," Ashleigh said. "I mean, we've talked a little about the possibility before, but he's just going to be graduating this year and then he'll be in grad school. As much as I want us to get engaged, if I have to wait a few more years, I will."
"Rusty strikes me as the type of guy who you'll probably have to slap upside the head before he realizes you want to marry him," Rebecca said. "He's going to want to marry you, but he's not going to have the guts to ask you yet. I mean, it took you how long to actually start dating now? So if you want to get a proposal out of him, you're going to have to give him that slap in the face, metaphorically speaking."
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"Oh hey guys," Calvin greeted Rebecca and Evan as he saw them walk into the Omega Chi house armed with cardboard and duct tape. "Is that for us? Because we could sure use some."
"Yeah, Pan-Hellenic got their hands on some stuff for each of the houses," Rebecca said, as they gave the supplies to some brothers passing by.
"How's it going here?" Evan asked.
"I think we're doing pretty well so far," Calvin said. "But you guys came at a good time; we were just about out of cardboard."
"We actually had a similar contest the year before you came here," Evan said. "It was some crazy thing between us and KT, and we won."
"How exactly did you beat them?" Calvin asked.
"We got the ZBZ's to get them all drunk the night before," Evan said with a laugh. "And that's not the only time that's happened."
"But we shouldn't exactly do that in the post-rivalry era," Calvin said.
"Speaking of the post-rivalry era," Evan began. "Since graduation is upon you soon, who's going to be the one to keep the house going next year?"
"I'm not worried about it at all," Calvin said. "There are a few standouts among the juniors, and we'll have elections after spring break and I'm confident whoever wins can handle it."
"Good, because you know one of the most important jobs as exiting president is to find someone who you know can keep the house going after you're gone," Rebecca spoke up, alluding to Evan's advice to her.
"True statement," Evan said with a nod.
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"Helpful girlfriend to the rescue!" Ashleigh said as she entered the KT house and saw Rusty coming in from out back. "I got you three more rolls of duct tape; hopefully that'll be enough."
"Thanks, babe," Rusty smiled and kissed her. "I hope that's all we need, too." He saw a pledge about to walk outside and handed him the bag of duct tape. "Here, pledge, take this with you."
"How was dress fitting?" Rusty asked Ashleigh once the pledge left.
"It went great; Rebecca loves her dress," Ashleigh said. "It was just her and me since Katherine's apparently still sick."
"That's not good," Rusty said. "Wasn't she sick last week?"
"Yeah, and I think I finally convinced Beaver to take her to the doctor," Ashleigh said. "He was freaking out thinking she was pregnant or something; I really don't think she is but she needs to see someone."
"I can't see her being pregnant now, either, but it really doesn't surprise me that was the first conclusion he came to," Rusty said with a chuckle.
"You know what I love about this wedding?" Ashleigh asked. "It's really making me think about a lot."
"Really, like what?" Rusty asked.
"The future," Ashleigh smiled and put her hands around his neck. "And what might happen next."
"Oh really?" Rusty asked with a grin and wrapped his arms around her waist. "And what are you saying you want to happen?"
"You'll figure it out when the time's right," Ashleigh said and kissed him. Just then they heard the back door close and Spidey walked in.
"We need more cardboard, badly," Spidey said.
"What, I thought we had plenty," Rusty said.
"We did, until the pledges started cutting it all wrong," Spidey said.
"Cardboard, I can go get you guys some of that," Ashleigh said. "I could have just gotten some when I got the duct tape."
"I'll go with you," Spidey said. "Besides, I was hoping you'd have some more female-related advice about a certain situation."
"Yeah, I sort of heard about what happened last night," Ashleigh said. "Sure, let's go."
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"Hi, I'm here for an appointment," Katherine said to the receptionist at the doctor's office as she and Beaver walked in.
"Are you sure he's not the one who needs to be seen?" the receptionist asked, referring to Beaver.
"No, why?" Katherine asked.
"Because he looks like he's going to vomit," the receptionist said.
"No, I'm fine," Beaver said. "It's her; she's the one who's been sick."
"All right, if you're sure," the receptionist said. "Sign in here." Katherine signed in and she and Beaver took seats in the waiting room. "You really do look like you're going to throw up. I hope I didn't give you whatever I have, if I actually have something."
"I actually hope you gave me something, because that would mean that you didn't have something that you couldn't really give me," Beaver said.
"What, that didn't make any sense at all," Katherine said.
"I mean that you wouldn't have something that a girl couldn't exactly 'give' to a guy," Beaver said.
"Wait, you don't think that I'm like, you know…" Katherine began.
"Pregnant," Beaver interrupted. "There, I said the word."
"I was trying not to let you see that I thought I might be pregnant," Katherine said. "But apparently you thought the same thing."
"With the way you've been strangely sick, I don't know what else to think," Beaver said.
"Miss Parker," a nurse came through the door and said. "The doctor will see you now."
"Here goes nothing," Beaver said as he followed Katherine into one of the rooms.
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"Oh hey, fancy meeting you here," Spidey said as he and Ashleigh saw Kelsey as they were about to walk into the supermarket.
"Yeah, fancy meeting you here," Ashleigh repeated.
"You were the one who texted me to meet you at the supermarket because you needed help carrying back some cardboard," Kelsey said to Ashleigh.
"Oh yeah, I guess I did," Ashleigh said with a laugh. "Anyway, I'll go ask someone what they've got and be right back out." With that, she hurried ahead and walked inside the supermarket.
"She is so trying to meddle," Kelsey said after Ashleigh left. "Again."
"Who said meddling is a bad thing?" Spidey asked. "So how are things since last night?"
"I woke up this morning actually feeling a lot better than I did last night," Kelsey said. "But I'm still not sure where to go from here. I can't go back again; I just can't. It's like the old saying goes; fool me once, shame on you. Fool me about ten times, major shame on me and seriously, what the hell is wrong with me."
"Nothing is wrong with you," Spidey said. "You've been brainwashed your whole life and that's not your fault. But now's your chance to finally overcome it. Can you say that breaking up with Robert was the right thing to do? And by that I mean the right thing for you; not for him, not for your parents, or anyone else but yourself."
"You know what, yeah I can," Kelsey said. "Honestly, we never even had a real relationship since we got back together last year, and it's taken me this long to see that."
"Then that's all that matters is that it was the right thing to do for you," Spidey said. "I know it's probably going to take some time for you to work through everything and I'm not going to push you into anything you're not ready for right now, but I promise I'll be there for you every step of the way."
"You really are the best friend I ever could have asked for," Kelsey smiled and hugged him. "I do need time to get things straightened out before I even think about dating again. But when I am ready, you'll be the first one to know."
"I sure hope so," Spidey smiled, hugging her back. "And I wouldn't have it any other way."
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"I think I see what the problem might be here," the doctor said to Katherine.
"You don't think I'm pregnant, do you?" Katherine asked the doctor with concern.
"Gosh, no," the doctor said with a chuckle. "While your symptoms might resemble pregnancy in a way, I think there's something else going on. You said you've been sick the worst after eating certain things, right?"
"Yeah, for the most part," Katherine said.
"I think a food allergy is a more likely cause of this than pregnancy," the doctor said. "It's common for people to develop food allergies during their lives, even when they're not born with them. We're going to do some tests on you and talk about changing your diet a little so we can see what exactly you're allergic to. Let me go and get a few things and I'll be right back."
"Talk about a relief right there," Beaver said to Katherine once the doctor left. "I mean, not that I want you to be allergic to something, but you're not pregnant!"
"I'd rather have a food allergy right now than a baby," Katherine said. "I'm still a serious student and I'm not ready for little Anastasia to come into the world yet."
"Believe me, neither am I," Beaver said. "My kindergarteners are enough for me right now. I love them all to death but am I ready to raise one myself? No I'm not."
"Now I just really want to find out what I'm allergic to," Katherine said. "Although I feel ten times better right now just knowing I'm not pregnant."
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"Case, let me see the scanner thing again," Cappie said excitedly to Casey as they were at the store looking at things for their registry. "I found a few other things we might want."
"Might want, or actually might need?" Casey asked. "We've both already picked out some stuff we might want but really don't need; remember it was my job to restrain you from scanning everything in the store?"
"I know," Cappie chuckled, knowing she was half-joking. "But no, I found some things we actually might need. Don't you think we should put some stuff on our list that we'll use once we get the house in a few years? I mean, right now we've got a fully furnished apartment that we really don't need anything else for. But in a few years, we'll have to fill an entire house."
"That's actually a really good idea," Casey agreed. "I've been trying to think myself of things we need and there's really not a lot right now. But if we could get some stuff for a house, we can just store it at my parents' until we need it."
"It's kinda funny how all the stuff we both have now that won't fit into our apartment, we now store at your parents' house that's 700 miles away from us," Cappie said.
"Because they have a ton of attic space," Casey said.
"And my parents don't exactly stay in one place long enough for us to keep anything there," Cappie said.
"Speaking of your parents, did you read that e-mail from April yet?" Casey asked. "Apparently she's in Africa for the next few months and isn't coming back until the week of the wedding."
"Yeah, I saw that," Cappie said. "I know my parents wouldn't miss my wedding for anything, but I don't expect they'll be around much more than a few days."
"How are you folks doing over here?" a salesman came over to them and asked. "Finding everything you need?"
"We're getting there," Cappie said.
"How about we go check out that stuff you were talking about for the house," Casey said to Cappie.
"Sounds good to me," Cappie said, grabbing her hand as they continued walking through the store.
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"I decided I'm taking your advice and I'm going to start dropping hints to Rusty," Ashleigh said to Rebecca the next day as they were heading toward the crowd that was gathered by Cyprus Lake.
"Maybe if you start now you might get a proposal sometime within the next year or two," Rebecca said jokingly.
"Well it's only been one day," Ashleigh said. "I think you're right in that it may take him a while to catch on, but I know the day he does is going to be the day he's truly ready."
"Who's ready for what?" Rusty asked, walking up behind them.
"You are of course, to win Greek Week once and for all!" Ashleigh said happily, hoping he didn't hear what she told Rebecca.
"This is it," Rusty said with a smile. "Spidey and I are doing the second half of the race; we decided that no matter what happens, we want to be the ones to bring this thing on home."
"As you should be," Ashleigh said. "No one works harder than you guys when it comes to that house."
"I just hope all our hard work this week pays off," Rusty said.
"Okay teams, take your places now!" the Pan-Hellenic president announced over a megaphone.
"That's your cue," Ashleigh smiled. "Good luck. I'll be standing somewhere around here with the camera."
"Thanks," Rusty smiled and kissed her, and then went to go take his place.
"Hey Ash, look what I made last night," Kelsey said as she walked over to Ashleigh and Rebecca after Rusty left. "It's a banner for us to cheer on KT."
"That looks great!" Ashleigh said as she looked at the banner she had decorated that said 'Go Kappa Tau'.
"Yeah," Kelsey said. "Now let's get our butts to the front of the crowd so we can actually see this a little."
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"So how did things go at the store yesterday?" Katie asked Casey as they were walking back into their apartment building after grocery shopping.
"It went great," Casey said. "And it's one more thing to check off of our things to do before the wedding list."
"Is your list getting any smaller?" Katie asked. "With our wedding, it seemed like whenever we checked something off our list, we had to add something else to it that we forgot."
"Right now it's getting smaller, but we'll see how that goes as it gets closer," Casey said with a chuckle.
"I hope it stays that way for you," Katie said. "I wonder how Tom and Cappie are doing with Lizzie."
"Cappie loves her; I could tell he was excited when I said we were going grocery shopping just for an hour," Casey said with a laugh. "Just so he'd get some time to play with her."
"She really enjoys both of you," Katie said. "And take that as a first sign that Cappie's going to be a good father when the time comes for you."
"Oh I have a good feeling he will be," Casey said as they arrived on their floor. "You should have seen him with my little cousins when we were at my parents' house for Christmas. They had him playing games with them for hours."
"I bet it was cute," Katie said. "He seems really great with kids. I'm just going to set my groceries down and then I'll be over to check on them."
"Okay," Casey said and entered her apartment. She saw Cappie lying on the couch asleep, with Lizzie lying on top of him, also asleep, and the television was turned onto some kind of cartoon. She whispered to herself and smiled, "This is too adorable; I have to get a picture." She grabbed her camera to take a quick picture, and then walked over to Cappie and gently shook him.
"Hey, you," Casey whispered to him, trying not to wake Lizzie.
"Hey, back already?" Cappie asked. "I didn't even realize I fell asleep."
"Looks like both of you did," Casey said. "I just got the most adorable picture of you two asleep; I think I want to put it on Facebook."
"You don't have to do that," Cappie said. "The world doesn't need to see everything that goes on here."
"What's the matter; you don't want the world to see this side of you?" Casey teased. "Because I have to say I quite love it."
"I love that you love it," Cappie smiled. "By the time we have kids of our own, then I'll let you put pictures of me and them on Facebook."
"Okay, I won't take away all your manly dignity just yet," Casey joked.
"Thanks, I appreciate that," Cappie said with a small laugh and kissed her.
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"Come on, you can do it, guys!" Ashleigh cheered as the race was down to the final stretch, and all three teams were still very close.
"They're all still way too close," Rebecca said. "I'm about to make this a little more interesting."
"How so?" Ashleigh asked.
"You'll see," Rebecca said, and walked over to where the Pan-Hellenic president was standing and whispered something in her ear.
"Okay, for the final round of the competition, jump out of your boats and swim the rest of the way over here," the Pan-Hellenic president announced over her megaphone a few seconds later. "The first team back is the winner. And, go!"
"What?" one of the Omega Chis in their boat asked dumbfounded. "Swim? Is she kidding?"
"Come on guys, get out and swim!" they heard Calvin yell, after everyone saw that Rusty and Spidey had jumped out of their boat right when the Pan-Hellenic president said go, and were now swimming way ahead of the Lambda Sig and Omega Chi teams. The other two teams finally jumped out and started swimming as fast as they could, but were too far back to catch up.
"And it looks like we've got a winner, of the competition and the winning fraternity of Greek Week," the Pan-Hellenic president announced when Rusty and Spidey reached the edge of the lake and got out. "For the first time in I don't know how many years, the winning fraternity is Kappa Tau Gamma."
"For the first time in sixteen years," Spidey grabbed the megaphone and clarified, as he and Rusty went over to claim their trophy that was next to her.
"Well there you have it," the Pan-Hellenic president said, presenting them with the trophy, as the Omega Chi and Lambda Sig swimmers finally reached the edge and got out. "And with that, I hereby announce that this year's Greek Week has officially concluded."
"Congratulations guys, you did it!" Ashleigh said excitedly as she walked over to them and snapped a picture. "But you are so dirty and wet right now."
"Oh, it's not that bad," Rusty said teasingly. "Come here!" Rusty walked over to her and hugged her, still dripping wet.
"Rusty Cartwright, what the heck!" Ashleigh yelled, but she was laughing. "I love you and all, but you really need to bathe right now. You've got green stuff on you, and I don't even want to know what it is."
"I couldn't resist," Rusty said, smiling playfully at her.
"You guys, let's go to Dobler's," Spidey said, walking back over to them after most of the KT guys had made their way over. "We're all going to celebrate!"
"Yeah, but don't you think we should shower first?" Rusty asked.
"Well, maybe showering first would be a good idea," Spidey laughed. "So, pit stop at the house and then Dobler's."
"You know these good moments I have with KT, they never get old!" Rusty said to Ashleigh with a huge smile as they began walking away from the lake.
"Okay, you got me now," Ashleigh smiled. "You may smell like lake water and fish and have green slime on you, but you look so happy, I can't not kiss you right now." She put her arms around him and kissed him.
"I love you," Rusty grinned. "Now we both need to shower, so let's do that and then we can celebrate for real!"
A/N: I got this chapter done quicker than normal thanks to midterm break! Hope you liked it; as I mentioned the boat race is something my school does every year, and my friends and I have quite the memories with it, lol.
On another note, does anyone have the Greek season 4 DVD yet? It's released today and the bonus features include behind the scenes footage of the final days of filming, which will be sad, but I'm sure it'll be a must-see!