A/N New chapter up, and the feuding continues between the two. Happy reading!
Emil sat in bed across from Lili as she continued to eat the pint of ice cream he had got for her. "So that's it? You're just not friends anymore?"
"Yep." She spoke spooning out more ice cream.
He raised an eyebrow. "So after going through rush week, and bid day, and NME, and entrance exams, and initiation, and getting drunk, and selling moonshine to pay for dues, and Eye Candy together, it's all over just that easily?"
"Yes, now will you please stop talking about it?" She asked looking up at him. "I know how it sounds, and I don't care. I'm not fixing this and I don't plan to. If she wants to be completely ungrateful to the fact that I've been there for her the entire time, then she can go ahead. I don't care."
Emil laid back on the bed. "Well okay, whatever you say Lil. But I just want you to know that you're both idiots."
She frowned at her boyfriend. Lili leaned over him, looking down at him. "Not fixing it." She declared before eating more of her ice cream.
"It's like she doesn't even understand me, like she doesn't even care." Sophia said as she continued to draw in Sebastian's bed.
Sebastian continued to edit the photos from his most recent photo shoot at his desk on his computer. "Yeah, sounds terrible. How dare that Lili put herself first for once and decline something she doesn't want to do with you?"
"Exactly! Like when have we ever not done anything together? We do everything together! We probably even breathe at the same time."
"And she's making it come off like you're two separate people. Like you have your own lives and interests. How could she even consider you two being different?"
"I know! All I want to do is spend time with her. That's all I want, that's all I ever want. She's my best friend Sebastian. Where did this come from all of a sudden?"
"Yeah it's almost like she's had a realization that she's her own person, and that she can do things without you and be just fine as friends still, or at least that's what she thought?" He spoke and looked back at her. "Well that's her loss, she can continue to grow and experience things all she wants without you, and you'll be here, wondering who else you can cling to to replace her."
"Mhmm, I'll do just that." She spoke as she finished up her sketch of a little penguin moving across a polar ice cap.
Sebastian looked at her for a moment longer before shaking his head. "I don't know why I like you so much." He muttered to himself.
Sophia and Lili tried to stay out of each other's way as best as possible during the week, but neither stayed in the dorm. They both thought the other was sleeping in the dorm, thus in determination of not wanting to see the other, each stayed with their significant other. Emil had sat in between the two during class now, and they stopped eating together.
Lili came out of the room, locking the door behind her to meet Emil at the library for a study date. And at the same time, Elizabeta had came out with a clipboard and pink slips attached to it. "Good afternoon Lili, haven't seen you in a while."
Lili looked back. "Hey LIzzie, good to see you too."
Elizabeta frowned. "You usually smile at me when you say hi. Is something wrong?"
She shook her head. "I just have a lot on my mind. Tests and things. That's all." Well, that wasn't a full lie.
"Well don't let it get you down too much, you're a smart girl, I believe you can push through anything." She said with a smile.
"Thank you, I'll stop by to talk to you if I need to."
"Of course, my door is always open."
Lili nodded and glanced at her door, seeing a piece of paper with words on it. Something was going on Wednesday, which was today. She'd come back later and see what the paper said after her study date. "I'll see you later Lizzie." She said and headed out to the stairs.
"Bye Lili. I hope your room is clean!" She called after her and went down to the first door on the hall, knocking on the door and coming in. "Room inspections." She called walking in.
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Emil sat down at a table with two energy drinks. "I picked these up at the market. Figured we need one since it's the late afternoon now. Crash time."
Lili pulled out her laptop, calculator, and books. "I'm usually in the bed now, taking my afternoon nap."
"Exactly, while I just got out of class. You don't like late classes?"
She shook her head. "The earlier I get up, the faster I can get through with the day. Why start the day at 10 and finish at 4 when you can start at 8 and be done by 2? Sleeping in is for the weekends."
"Huh, didn't think of it like that. So that's why you're such a sleepy girl."
Lili rolled her eyes and stood up, going to the dry erase board in their study room. She took a marker and drew a T chart, one side with 'Lil' and the other side 'Emi'. "Ok, so what does Emi have to work on and study for today?" She asked.
Emil shuffled through the things he brought with him. "Emi has a paper to start for English, an assessment to do for statistics, I have to read three chapters for history, and I have to do my post and pre-quiz for Sociology."
"Emi's got a full plate." She giggled as she wrote down all the things he had to do on his side of the chart. Then, she moved over to her side. "Okay, so Lil has to do her take home quiz for algebra, study for my biology test, and the pre and post quiz for Sociology." She said as she wrote her things on her side. "Hm, all that weekend studying really helped. I thought I had more than this." She said and went to sit down. She popped open her energy drink and grabbed her calculator.
"You have your room inspection in McCall yet? I just had mine yesterday." Emil spoke as he tapped away on his laptop.
Lili looked up slowly, and her eyes widened. "Oh shit." She whispered before getting up and running back to McCall.
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Lili pulled the door open to her hall and ran down to Elizabeta's door. She read the yellow paper.
Room Inspections this Wednesday! Be prepared and take out your trash! ❤
- Lizzie
She went to her door, finding it already unlocked. She bit her lip and pushed it open. She walked inside, finding Elizabeta looking around at all of the things in the bathroom. The still, the burner, the two fermenting gallons of alcohol, and mason jars sitting around the room.
Lili calmly put her hands up, walking towards her RA. "Lizzie, I know it looks bad. But, I can explain."
"This is like, an entire brewery. You're making alcohol Lili. Do you realize you can go to jail for this stuff in here? Lili this isn't okay!" She yelled.
"I know Lizzie, I know. But you said it yourself, you pay for dues any way you can. My roommate is the one that knows about all this stuff, I just handle the money. This was our last week distilling, we're only 250 short of dues and selling out this weekend would cover that. We were selling the stuff back after we were done with it, just please, don't take this to upper housing."
Elizabeta sighed shaking her head. "Why couldn't you just had been a pothead and just had a bong sitting around somewhere? I wouldn't have cared about that." She muttered. "You're lucky you're such a good kid Lili." She spoke and gave a look around the bathroom one more time before looking at her. "I'm giving you a mulligan. I've got four more rooms to check after yours, so in four room checks I want this out of my sight, alright? I never saw it."
"Yes of course, I'll get it put up right away." She said nodding.
Elizabeta nodded back. "Alright, I'll be back." She said and left the room.
Instantly Lili went to cleaning the bathroom up. She put away the still and burner, slid the water jugs behind the curtain and closed it, and stashed all the mason jars in the linen closet. Elizabeta knocked on the door no more than five minutes later. Lili went over and pulled the door open.
"Hey, here for room inspection." She told her with a smile.
Lili smiled as well. "Come on in." She said and moved to the side so she could come in.
Elizabeta walked in, checking off things from her checklist. "Nice clean room, trash is taken out. The curtains in the bathroom under the vanity is a nice touch. The cupcakes are cute. Good job, you passed." She said signed off the list before giving it to Lili.
Lili took the paper, smiling and walked Elizabeta to the door. "Hey Elizabeta." Lili called to her.
Elizabeta looked back at her.
"Thanks. You didn't have to do that, but I'm glad you did." Lili spoke quietly.
Elizabeta smiled, and wrapped her arms around her. "You're such a good kid Lili, you didn't deserved to be stopped getting caught with that. I have so much faith in you it's crazy. Just, make my belief worth it, alright? Show me that you're worth believing in. Be great in ways people least expect." She told her, and pulled away from her to look at her. "And for what it's worth, I wish you were a Zeta all the time, I would have loved you as my little."
Lili looked up at her, eyes welling with tears. But instead of crying, she looked away, rubbing her eyes. "Thanks Lizzie, that means a lot coming from you. Like a lot a lot." She said laughing some. "I'm going to make you proud, big or not, sister or not, you're worth making proud." She sniffled. "I'll show you that you can be proud of me." She said before looking away and shaking her head again with a small smile. "It's like I'm talking to my cousin right now, it's a weird feeling, but nice."
"Well I'm glad I could fill the big cousin role in your time of need. I have to go turn these papers in and get to my chapter meeting, my girls think I could be homecoming queen, so they've been telling me that they'd back me if I ran." She said with a small laugh.
Lili's eyes widened. "But you can, Lizzie. Camille's running too, and honestly I think you can win against her if you really work for it."
Elizabeta stretched some. "Yeah, well that's not really my cup of tea. Camille is prissy enough to win, plus she's a suck up. Parading around for votes, making promises, and kissing babies is more of her style, not mine. It's still surprising to me that I'm even in a sorority."
"Lizzie, you believe in me, so I'm going to believe in you. 'Be great in ways people least expect.' You just said that."
"Well I say stuff like that all the time, I'm in a public speaking class, it's not really—"
"Snatching the crown from her would be the ultimate revenge."
Elizabeta thought for a second. "Hm, I'm not past revenge. I like the sound of that. Me winning? I'd love to see the look on her face when they announce me the winner." She said laughing. "Alright it's worth it. I'll run."
Lili grinned. "Can't wait to see you with a crown come the homecoming game." She said.
"Me either. I bet I look great in a crown, can't wait to find out. But I really have to go, I have to drop these slips off to the housing office before I go to my meeting. Finish up your little business and get rid of it. Got it?"
"Of course, we'll get rid of it." She said.
"Alright, I'll see you later." With that she patted her shoulder before leaving her in the hall by herself.
Sophia sat at one of the tables in the lounge of the Kappa Mu house drawing up some sketches for Camille's campaign. She added detailed flowers and little branches around the words, 'Camille for Homecoming Queen.' She shrugged looking at it, it would look nice as buttons to give out.
"That looks really good."
Sophia jumped and turned around, finding the person standing over her shoulder to be none other than Camille.
Camille smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. Sophia, right? You were in Eye Candy, and you sold all those landscapes at the art auction."
"Yep, that's me." She said nodding.
" I was just looking at you draw, and it's really beautiful." She said taking a seat next to her.
"I'm glad you like it, I was hoping that you could use it to put on buttons to pass out to people."
Camille shrugged. "I was thinking more like the official announcement sheet to hang up on the quad."
Sophia blinked. "You want this to go up as an announcement sheet?"
"Why not? It's got a lot of flowers on it. It can be for KM. You can sign it yourself at the bottom for credit. I wouldn't want anyone to take credit for your artwork of course."
Sophia had felt incredibly honored. "I'd love to do the sheet announcement for Kappa Mu, I've never painted on a sheet before actually." She said with a laugh.
"You've got something to do in this campaign, official artwork. Come up with some ideas for another sheet announcement, you can be in charge of getting together the sidewalk chalk art, come up with some ideas for fliers, and maybe a couple of other things."
Was this a dream? Was this real? Was she going to wake up any time soon? "You're seriously letting me take over official artwork?"
"I really like your work Sophia, even at the art auction. But, I don't know, I used to draw and stuff, and I kind of see myself in you. I think it's deserving." She said and stood up. "We're picking up the sheet tomorrow, come after your classes tomorrow to paint it."
"Definitely, I'll be here." She said nodding quickly.
"Great, see you tomorrow." Camille said with a smile and left out the room.
"Yes!" Sophia cheered for herself as she pumped a fist in the air. This was great. Official artwork for the campaign. She didn't think that it was an official name or job for a person in a campaign, but she didn't care, she was the one that got the job. Wait until she told Sebastian, and Lili and Emil. She frowned at the thought. Lili, no not her. She'd definitely text Emil though, he still liked her, and they were still friends. She can't keep Emil to herself. Sophia quickly gathered her things and headed back to the room, hoping Lili wouldn't be there.
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"We got a lot of work done Emi, the good grades are going to start coming in soon." Lili spoke as she walked back to McCall with him.
"Yep, won't be long now before we make it to the Dean's List." He spoke putting his hands in his pocket.
"You know, I don't think I would have been able to do this if I had chose to do the campaign with Sophia. I got to have a study date with you, I feel like my time is starting to free up. Less time doing Greek Life stuff means more time for you, and we both know how you enjoy your time with me. We'll have more time to do things together like dates, and study dates, and eating together."
Emil pulled out his phone, and read the notification text he got from Sophia. "Yeah I'm excited too." He said and put his phone away. "By the way, Sophia just text me that Camille told her that she's doing the artwork for her campaign."
Lili smiled. "She is? That's great!" She exclaimed before looking away and waving her hand. "Not that I care or anything." She muttered.
He shook his head as he opened the door for her into McCall. "Yeah, way to show that you don't care Lil."
"I don't. I really don't care." She said. "Wait down here, I'm going to get some clothes for tonight, and I don't know if she's up there." She said to him before glancing at the desk and smiling. "Hi Lizzie." She said.
Elizabeta looked up from her phone, finding Lili and Emil standing near the desk. "Oh hey Lili, and Emil right?" She asked before waving. "Nice to see you guys this evening."
"Nice to see you too." Emil spoke as he took out his phone and rested against the desk to wait on Lili. He hoped she didn't take long, he was kind of hungry. He looked up when he saw another person walk into the lobby, blonde girl with green eyes.
"Bella, hey, what are you doing here?" Elizabeta asked putting her phone down.
Bella smiled at her. "I need a favor."
Elizabeta narrowed her eyes. "What kind of favor?"
"A favor that involves you covering my shifts at the Greek Life office for the next couple of weeks."
Elizabeta scoffed. "Bel I don't know what to do at the Greek Life office. And plus I'm an RA, who's going to cover my shifts at the desk?"
"Oh they'll just plug in a Front Desk Worker, it's not a big deal. And you know I'm moving apartments it's going to take some time to get everything over there while I'm already in class. With class and work I'll never get anything done. Think about it, you'll get paid for my shifts, all you have to do is log money and answer the phone, I'll give you my log ins to my computer, and you get to play Solitaire on the computer for when you're bored."
Her lips pursed together in thought. "Alright, alright. When do I start?"
Bella squealed. "Next Friday, so if you actually want to find someone to cover your RA shifts instead of Front Desk, you can. Come over to the Greek Life office and I'll show you everything you have to do before I leave."
"Yeah sure. I'll see you then."
Bella offered her her index finger. "One heart?"
Elizabeta pressed her index finger against hers. "Many souls."
With a smile, Bella left out the lobby, and Lili soon came down stairs with a duffle in her hand. "Alright, ready to go." She said offering her hand.
Emil pocketed his phone, and took her hand. "Come on, I'm starving." He said and started his way out with her.
A/N I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, please remember to review. Until next chapter everyone!