SCREAM KINGS

PART 2

"Surprise, Pledges!"

A late bus pulled up in front of Auradon University's main building as the sun was setting. A girl with straight, orchid colored hair and bright emerald eyes steps off. Behind her was her navy headed friend, who wore bright-red heels that were as high as a baby's leg.

"Evie did you have to wear your 'fuck me' shoes on the first day?" The purple haired girl crossed her arms, leaning on the side of the bus.

"Um, yes." Evie rocked her head sassily with the statement. "I'm gonna meet my prince." She declared with a hand to her chest before putting both hands on her hips and taking a gander at the grandiose campus.

"Right. You're going to meet your prince in a place that reeks of the ideology of Social Darwinism."

"This isn't Social Darwinism, sweetie. This is nepotism." Evie corrected her somehow unpretentiously.

"Maybe for you. You only got in because your mom is a technical royal." Mal raised her brow arrogantly.

"And your mom ran a cult." Evie giggled. "And hey, I could've passed my entrance exams, but studying would've taken all my beautification time away and that's a no-no."

Mal only squinted at her in disbelief.

"We're celebrities Mal." Evie only grinned with splendor. "Lighten up!"

"You're a celebrity. And, don't just tell people who my mom is okay…" Mal mumbled.

"Sissy you know all your secrets are safe with me." Evie fought the urge to cross her fingers behind her back, instead playfully tickling the rebel girl's arm with her thin fingers to make her friend smile.

Now standing in front of the bus, the two of them zoned out to observe the campus and some of its students. Some were pretty attractive, some dorkier than a pocket protector. One had green eyes and a tight ass.

"He's a looker." Evie said looking at Ben who was pacing toward the directory building.

Mal shrugged. "If you like white guys." Evie then looked at her, her mouth agape. The two started laughing hysterically for some reason.

"So are you two ever going to get your bags?! Or are you just gonna hold up my bus and discuss ethical principles?" The bus driver said curtly through the open door.

The girls looked at each other as they came back to reality. They proceeded to acquire their insane amount of luggage and stumbled off toward Minnie House on the east side of campus.

"College life." Evie said eagerly. "I'm so excited."

"You're always excited." Mal replied blandly.

"And you never are." The navy haired girl sighed. Now noticing the eyes on her, she shot looks at the many guys and girls mesmerized by her beauty. Even as she dragged her bags clumsily. Mal smiled, enjoying her best friend's love of the attention.

They finally reached Minnie House, seeing a pretty girl sitting outside on the steps.

Evie dragged on eagerly toward the girl. "Hiii! You joining Delta Iota Sigma too?!" She asked elatedly.

The girl pushed her wavy black hair from her shoulder. "Um yeah." She giggled at Evie's energy. "I got a text from one of the Minnie House members saying to come early, but I've been sitting here waiting for someone to open the door for like ten minutes."

"Oh. That sucks." The hazel eyed girl frowned. "Oh I'm Evie! This is Mal. My bestie."

"I'm Navia." The girl stood, putting out a hand.

Evie dropped her bags and shook the girl's hand. "Nice to meet you! And oh my god, girl, green looks AMAZING on you." Evie complimented the girl's avocado colored dress and matching wedge sandals.

"Thanks." Navia smiled gorgeously.

"Nice to meet you." Mal came up and shook the darker girl's hand as well. "Those stuck up sorority bitches. I guess this is their idea of a prank."

"Maybe." Navia shrugged before sitting back down on the stone steps. Mal went toward the front door.

"I tried a while ago. It's totally locked." The green garbed gal said.

"Hmm," Mal still reached for the doorknob. Wiggling it and seeing that it actually turned. Her eyes widened as the door began to open.

"What?!" Navia stood back up. "I was trying to open that thing forever."

Mal shrugged. "Magic touch?"

"I guess someone is inside…" Navia said peeking through the door. The other girls gathered their things then they all proceeded into Minnie House.

The girls were amazed by the house's interior. The living room was the first room they saw and it was elegantly filled with white loveseats and thick cushioned chairs around a long gold trimmed coffee table. In the back of the living room was a flight of steps that curved up to the second level.

"So why do you two have bags? Were you already accepted into the house?" Navia asked as they explored Minnie House.

"Well technically no, but we will be." Evie said confidently.

"I figured we could move straight in." Mal said but Evie looked at her like she shouldn't have. Mal looked at her friend.

"What? I didn't even want to join a stupid sorority." Mal confessed dropping her bags again. "This place is pretty bitchin' though." She said as she felt the soft furniture.

"Ugh, who says bitchin' anymore?" Evie tossed her hair then set herself on a loveseat. "Wonder if anyone's home?"

"It's super quiet for a college dorm…" Mal sat next to Evie.

"Maybe all the members are out." Evie suggested. "I mean Minnie House is super strict. You've got to be the cream of the crop to get in ya know."

Mal turned to her friend. "Okay I can't say bitchin' but you can say 'cream of the crop'?" She raised one of her dark purple brows.

"My mom always says that." Evie sat up straight. "Would you prefer I say the 'fairest of them all'?" She said in a haughty accent.

"Now E, you know none of these sorority bitches are 'fair'." She said and the two of them began laughing hysterically. They noticed Navia staring up at the second level.

"What'cha doing girlfriend?" Evie asked the girl in green.

Navia pondered for a moment. "Wanna check out the rooms?"

"Hell yes!" Evie hopped from the seat then courteously let out a hand to pull Mal up.

Mal smirked. "Lead the way Queenie." She stood.

Evie took the first step toward the curved hard wood staircase, gliding their hands on the smooth banister on their way up. The girls climbed to the second floor in unison.

At the top of the steps, the girls saw the doors to the bedrooms, some of which were decorated with names and glitter and pictures from extracurricular activities. At the end of the hall, they noticed a cracked door.

"Hey, maybe someone is here." Evie smiled, striding down the hall in her very high heels.

"Evie don't just barge in!" Mal said pacing after her friend in her black military boots with Navia running behind them.

Evie knocked on the cracked undecorated door with a 'hello?' She actually began opening the door all the way.

"Evie!" Mal exclaimed in a hushed voice.

"Hello? We're pledges.?" The door to the vacant room was wide open now. The room had nothing but a bed and a desk. Lying on top of the bed was what looked like an empty knight costume.

"Is that the Fighting Knights' mascot?!" Evie clattered in her high heels over to the suit.

"Wow, it totally is." Navia said intrigued. "I didn't know the suit was so elaborate."

"I bet it's heavier than hell too." Mal looked over the intricate 15th century knight costume. She knocked on the closed helmet. "Anybody home?"

Evie grinned as if she had a wonderful idea. "Oh my god, wanna try it on?" Evie turned toward the girls.

"Hell no. It's probably all sweaty in there." Mal said before the knight suit suddenly and noisily sat upward, the girls shrieking at the slight movement.

Evie grasped her chest still alarmed. "Hey, we're so sorry." Evie said to the knight but it only sat there facing the wall in front of it.

"We must have woke them up." The navy haired girl said to her friends. "I'm Evie. Evie Queen." She held her arm out to the uncommunicative mascot. The girls stared at it as it remained immobile.

"Is it like, electronic?" Evie looked back at her friends but the helm turned toward her and the knight roughly grabbed her arm.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" She cried as the mascot squeezed her wrist. "Get it off me!" Evie cried. Mal and Navia knew they couldn't just punch solid armor so they scurraged the room for a weapon. Evie continued screaming of the pain as the mascot held onto her. Mal picked up the wooden chair in front of the desk and smashed it into the knight's back. The chair bounced off but the knight let out an "oof" and released Evie.

The girls then haul ass out of the room and toward the staircase. They looked back from the top of the steps and heard the metallic clanging of the knight's boots. It was stomping toward them. The girls scream again rushing down the steps, Evie only going one at a time in her tall red heels.

"Evie why do you have to be that girl in every scary movie?!" Mal slowed her pace, trying not to abandon her best friend on the steps.

"Dead or alive, you know these heels are super cute!" Evie proclaimed.

"BITCH TAKE THEM OFF!" Mal exclaimed as the knight reached the banister. Evie looked at her friends and then at the knight over and over, weighing her choices. She then inhaled.

"I'm sorry." She slid off the designer stilettos and tossed them at the knight one at a time before bolting down the stairs in front of the other two girls.

"She's actually really fast huh?" Navia said to Mal as they neared the bottom of the staircase. Evie was at the front door, trying to shake it open.

"GUYS IT'S LOCKED AGAIN!"

"From the inside?" Mal yelled flabbergasted.

"Oh my god, were we trapped in here?" Navia said as the clanging of the knight's steps became louder as it slowly went down the steps.

The girls backed toward the door, unsure how to get out.

"Mal, I love you." Evie said suddenly in the middle of the two other girls. She squeezed both of their hands. "And Navia even though I just met you, you're like super cute and hot and look so good in green and if I was going to have my first college lesbian experience with anyone, I would've hoped it was with you!" Evie confessed.

"Same." Navia nodded squeezing the princess's hand as the knight neared them. The mascot stopped a few feet from the girls now. Muffled echoing laughter coming from inside the helmet.

"Wait, is that a chick." Mal squint her eyes. The knight removed its helmet revealing a cute girl with a round face, pale violet eyes, and long brown hair.

"Surprise, pledges!" The girl said excitedly. The three girls only staring at her, dumbfounded.

"I'm gonna whoop her ass." Navia said suddenly, releasing Evie's hand and stomping toward the girl in the mascot suit.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Audrey in a pink skirt and heels, and baby blue blouse, came from behind a pillar with two other girls, one who was blonde, and one who had dark-brown hair. "It was just a prank pledges." Audrey smirked, as did the girls behind her.

"I saw you on the Facebook page! You're Audrey Aorealis! The queen of Minnie House!" Evie slid toward the sorority president in her apple decorated white socks.

Audrey stepped back. "You're damn straight blueberry." She said fiercely. "You all sure scare easily, huh?"

"I thought they were gonna piss themselves." One of the girls behind Audrey, who had dark hair and was of East Asian ethnicity, giggled. Her phone was out and she presumably recorded the entire thing.

"Sorority bitches." Mal mumbled.

"Well, why don't you girls get comfy? The recruitment meeting starts in 20 minutes. Let's see if you're up for the cut." Audrey smirked imposingly, eying Mal who was glaring directly at her.

"Lawd Janey," The blonde who was behind Audrey said in her southern belle accent. "However do you trudge around in that thick, heavy suit every football game?"

"Well it's all for Auradon." Jane stated before turning toward Audrey. "And representing Minnie House and Audrey's honor means everything to me."

Audrey pulled her attention away from Mal and turned to Jane.

"I hope you're not all sweaty." The cheerleader scoffed. "And please stop kissing my ass Jane. I'm not a lesbian like you. "Audrey laughed haughtily, her two cohorts mimicking her. The three went up the stairs to the second level now, leaving the costumed Jane and the three neophytes alone.

"Um, I'm not a lesbian by the way." Jane said to the three.

"How do you put up with that shit?" Mal crossed her arms.

"I do what she says because Minnie House is where I belong." Jane smiled brightly. Too brightly. "I'm sorry for scaring you guys." Jane said genuinely, then turned toward the staircase. "I'll see you in a few. I hope you guys make it in. That way we'll all be dorm mates!"

Mal sighed. "Evie what the hell did you get me into?" Evie only grinned, not knowing what to say.

"Whose tacky hooker shoes are these?!" Audrey threw a pair of red stilettos over the banister, breaking one of the heels.

Evie croaked then ran to retrieve them from the ground. She cried as she gripped the shoes. "WHYYYYY?!"

Mal and Navia looked at each other, wondering what was in store for them as more pledges began to arrive.