Gamma - Welcome to Greece
"Yes?" the girl with the long black hair and even longer limbs.
Rie couldn't stop ogling her legs and blinked "Is Julia here?"
"She'll be here in two minutes…what do you want?" she eyed Rie suspiciously.
"I'm thinking, no actually I want to pledge Tri-pi"
The girl's beautiful face lit up "Fantastic, come in!"
She stepped aside and shut the door after Rie "Sorry about that, Thought you may have been one of those ZBZ bitches…I'm Mariam by the way" she held out a hand.
"Rie" she replied as she shook the girl's hand.
"Rie, the name seems familiar…" the girl looked thoughtful and shrugged "I'm the Tri-Pi Treasurer, let me show you around".
The house wasn't too bad, not as lavish as the ZBZ house but it was still quite nice.
"Sorry the kitchen is a bit of a shithole, unlike the ZBZ girls we eat and we can't afford to get catering every other day"
Rie nodded "that's fine, I like my food"
"Great" she grinned and took her to the living room and reception room.
"Downstairs bathroom" Mariam pointed and came to the stairs "we house about…thirty girls but some stay at dorms for the 'best of both worlds' come upstairs-" she turned as the door opened.
Julia was wearing gold shorts and a red boob tube with a black cardigan and golden scandals.
"Oh hullo" she smiled.
"This is Rie, she wants to pledge TP"
"I see, so you changed your mind?"
"You rejected us?" Mariam's face took on a look of comic hostility.
"I was mulling it over" Rie said, laughing nervously.
"…anything that made you change your mind?" Julia asked too nonchalantly for Rie's liking.
"Nothing"
"Good" Julia nodded.
The three girls stayed silent.
"Is that it…?"
"Yeah, you're a pledge"
"Don't I get hazed or something?"
"No, those are frats…plus that's when you actually get accepted…right now, you're still a maggot"
"A what?"
Julia frowned "I like you, but it doesn't mean you're getting special treatment Evans, enjoy your last day of freedom"
"Wait I have a job"
"Okay, when…you don't have a job, or a seminar, lecture, class or project that needs to be due…your mine" Mariam's green eyes glittered maliciously and then she stepped back and smiled "Okay, I need you to send me some information, your grade average, your timetable: contact hours and work, any allergies, conditions…blah, blah, blah…welcome to tri-pi…you haven't made a huge mistake"
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"You did what?" Mathilda said incredulously as she handed Rie a coffee, it was a Monday, the day Rie and her were not on a shift together.
"I pledged a sorority"
"Oh my goodness, there must be some great imbalance somewhere else in the world" Mathilda looked serious.
"Hey! I did it for protection"
"Why does this sound like a subplot from The Godfather?"
"Haha, Julia reminds me of Don Vito Corleone actually, but yeah…after Saturday…I have a feeling Hilary won't let me go"
"Yeah, well don't mack on her boyfriend!"
"Mathilda!" Rie whined and gestured to herself helplessly "just, please, be on my side?"
"Fine, fine…Tala!" Mathilda waved as her boyfriend approached them "You know Rie has just pledged Tri-pi?"
Tala looked as shocked as Mathilda had three minutes ago "Really? Why not ZBZ?"
"No offence…to you both" she said as she turned to Mathilda and back to Tala "Are you really that dense?"
Tala frowned, cocked his head "Oh yeah…haha, silly me…well Tri-pi, this should be interesting"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean Tri-pi has a reputation for being easy…you'd fit in"
Tala and Mathilda gave each other sly giggles, while Rie flattened her mouth and flipped them both.
"…But seriously, things are gonna change under Julia's reign, we were in dorms together, she was crazy but definitely cool"
"Tell me a bit about Julia, I get the eccentric genius vibe from her"
"Ummm…" Tala looked thoughtful "I think she's a Music and Drama major, you know kooky, fun…it's why her and Hilary do not get along at all"
The two girls looked at him to go on.
"Hilary is pre-medicine and was, well still is, the perfect little prepster and Julia was this cool, relaxed girl, Julia was obviously the more popular and cool girl. They were in constant competition…Both were intent on being in the Greek System, They both went for ZBZ, but obviously the Zeta Betas were not Julia's thing, she ran so fast to the Tri-pi house she left skid marks on the road"
Rie laughed and nodded "Well, we'll see…maybe I'll only pledge until Hilary just loses the grudge"
Tala looked offended "That's the kind of attitude we weed out in orientation week, and Hilary never loses a grudge so I guess it's Tri-pi till you die!"
Rie groaned and sat on one of the stools and moaned "maybe I should just take out Hilary with a right hook and then hide in my dorms for the rest of the year"
"No!" Mathilda snapped "Man up, plus I think joining a sorority would be a great idea, the socials…plus you may get to live in the house"
Tala and Rie shook their heads "Sweetie" Tala ruffled Mathilda's hair sweetly "Pledges are not allowed to live in the house, only under special circumstances can they do so"
"Yeah, what the Russian said" Rie gestured.
"Rie!" Mariam waved from the entrance and walked to the counter "Oh, you're not into Omega Chi's are you?" and gave a grimace at Tala.
"No, I am" Mathilda smiled.
"Ha, Mariam meet Mathilda" Tala gestured.
"This is the famous girl who got Tala to calm down…"
Tala was glaring daggers at Mariam and she caught on "…you were always so hyper in dorms, now you're less ADD"
Tala relaxed internally as Mathilda went to make Mariam's espresso.
"So, you ready for tonight?" Mariam leaned against the counter "we've got some fun stuff and awesome new pledges, they'll be all freshmen sorry, it's a but rarer to have a sophomore pledge"
Rie nodded "Great, I'll be like the old man in the class"
"Old woman" Mariam corrected "Thank you, see you later!"
Rie waved and sighed "Oh shit, what kind of things am I going to have to do?"
"No idea…maggot" Tala grinned
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Raymond Kon was enjoying life, right at this moment. He was sitting on an old sofa chair in front of the Kappa Tau house with his best friend – slash - right hand man in 'running' the Kappa Tau house, Tyson Granger. He picked up his red party cup and downed the cool beer inside. He adjusted the baseball cap he was donning and looked onto 'Greek Street'.
"Oh yeah, just another lazy afternoon" Tyson yawned and opened up a monster bag of Cheetos and waved them in Ray's face.
"Thanks man" Ray took a handful and stuffed half in his mouth.
They lay back and back their beers making the warm late afternoon even more pleasant. They were seated on sofa chairs on the front lawn of the messy Kappa Tau house.
"Look man, Hiwatari at two o'clock"
The two young men clocked the president of the Omega Chi's walking along in a polo t-shirt, with dark jeans and smart shoes. He had his earphones in and was deep in thought.
"Man do those guys always look like they are going to the horse races?" Tyson gestured carelessly to Kai.
"Because that's how Omega Chi operate" Ray pulled his hat down further and sunk into the sofa "and it's how we do not operate, thankfully"
"Dude, Kai and that girl at the Tri-pi…man sweet, Hilary looked like she needed some comforting…you know what I mean" he nudged Ray.
"I thought you had a thing for Hilary" Ray muttered, he only liked it when he teased Hilary about their past exploit.
Let's just say it was one long drunken, Greek weekend. Ray, Hilary, a room, twelve hours. Do the math. Ray was drunk off his ass, and Hilary while drunk had deep notions of revenge involving a certain Hiwatari.
"Nah, I'm onto Barthez"
"Julia?" Ray sat up and looked at Tyson "….nice" he nodded.
"Yeah, I mean going for Julia AND a sorority president?" Tyson looked thoughtful then closed his warm-looking eyes "points for me…either way, I win, win, win"
"Yeah" Ray cackled.
"Anyway, who was that girl with Hiwatari?"
Ray frowned lightly "I dunno, I remember her at the Tri-pi shindig, she didn't say she was in a sorority"
"Interesting so she was a norm?"
"Yeah, or she was pledging, or she knew someone there…either way she'd definitely connected to the Greek system"
"She looked hot"
"She was hot, we were playing drinking games with her remember? Man the hair, that caramel skin…I just wanted to lick her" Ray looked at Tyson, his face the perfect look of innocence, mischief and surprise, causing Tyson to roar out.
Tyson adjusted his own signature cap and frowned "Hey…I may be wrong, isn't that her?"
Ray frowned and removed his cap, letting his black hair fall free "Speak of the devil…"
The girl was sprinting down the other end of the road, long legs extended in jeans and Converses. She disappeared out of their sight causing Tyson and Ray to look at each other in bemusement.
She appeared this time, on their side of the road and sprinted up to them.
"Monkey…seen…all?" she gasped.
"What?" Ray asked.
"Monkey!" her and Tyson exclaimed together.
She jumped over them with the expertise of an Olympic hurdler, seemed to capoeira across the lawn behind them and grabbed something.
"Gotcha! Ya lil' shit!" she wriggled and shook it "Bad Mojo"
She stood and sighed. A monkey no bigger than two of her hands put together seemed to be letting off a laugh in her hands. It pried itself out and as she groaned preparing herself to sprint after it, it perched itself on her shoulder and nuzzled her cheek.
She sighed and waved at them "Hi"
"Hello" Ray and Tyson immediately stood and sidled up to her.
"Cute Monkey"
Tyson went to stroke it and it hissed at him.
"…Or not" He recoiled his hand and gave Ray a glance.
"Tyson is not really an animal guy, but I am…Ray Kon, Kappa Tau President"
"You seem…kinda familiar" Rie cocked her head slightly, but she held out a hand "Rie Sakata-Evans"
"You met me at the Tri-pi party" Ray smiled "Rie…interesting 'R'…'I'…'E'? Japanese?"
"Just a little"
Ray took in the tanned skin and green eyes "Of course"
She frowned "Man, that night was such a blur…sorry"
"Well, you were really bad at drinking games" Ray laughed.
Rie laughed and sighed "Oh no…what did I do?"
"Nothing bad, you certainly liven things up on Greek Street"
"You know too?"
"Babe, there isn't anyone who doesn't know about your little escapade with Kai Hiwatari" Ray grinned "If I remember correctly you said you weren't part of a sorority?"
"I was then…I'm now pledging Tri-pi"
"Really interesting, you a freshman?"
"Sophomore"
"Wow, that's rare"
"I'm a special case"
"So, um" Tyson broke in "whose monkey? Yours?"
"Nah, it's Julia's. Her and Mariam have me running round doing silly errands, I have a feeling they'll only get worse"
"Interesting…well, when we were pledges we had to jack off in every house garden on Greek street within an hour"
She looked horrified "Did you?"
"We did" Ray and Tyson looked smug "my vision went funny for a few days, but meh" he shrugged it was worth it "that was the worst though"
"I guess it could have been worse" the monkey moved to her arm and she cradled it.
"Much, much worse" Ray grinned and stepped forward as she looked up at him, he pushed Tyson. Hard "So, Tri-pi, huh? Why?"
Tyson picked himself out of the shriveling hedges and muttered something about 'Bros before hoes' and marched up to the house, not noticed by the pair.
Rie shrugged and smiled "it's stupid…protection" she smiled.
Ray looked confused for a mere second and smiled "Ah, Hilary Tachibana?"
"Yeah" Rie laughed "My fault really, shouldn't really have tried to sleep with her boyfriend"
"Oh, I wouldn't worry" Ray laughed "if what they had was a relationship…well, I can't think of anything after that, basically. It's not a relationship. Hilary will get him back in her own way, probably sleep with someone else. That's how it goes"
"Oh, so was I just caught in a little lovers tiff?"
"Try feud, it's been going on so long that it's the fuckin' norm. Besides I can see why Hilary was really pissed this time"
"Why?" Rie's breath hitched.
"Kai's never gone for someone as pretty as you before, and trust me, I'm not just saying that to get in your pants…although…I am trying"
Rie gave him a flattened look and held out a hand "nice to meet you, Ray Kon, President of Kappa Tau, your reputation precedes you"
"My reputation? What have you heard?"
"Lots" Rie smiled and turned and Mojo hissed at Ray "good Mojo" she whispered to the animal as she stroked it.
"There you are maggot!" Julia came striding towards them in purple leggings and a billowy black top "Mojo, baby"
The monkey sprang from Rie's arms and to Julia.
"Oh, hello Ray, chatting up some more pledges…I thought you've bedded them all"
"Obviously not, because I haven't slept with this one" he looked thoughtful "Oh yeah, by the way, what have you been telling your pledge?"
"Nothing that isn't the truth" Julia's eyes glinted "You're a held back Junior, so technically a sophomore…you're the Kappa Tau President…you have slept with a lot of the girls on Greek Street, excluding yours truly of course…you're a notorious womanizer"
Ray looked smug.
"So what of that isn't true?"
Ray shrugged "I see, well…I guarantee at one moment, usually when I'm with a woman. I'm a one woman man…at that moment"
"Interesting" Rie nodded slowly, shooting looks at Julia.
"The fact of the matter is, you need to sleep with me…it's sort of been a new tradition to sleep with Ray Kon to welcome to Greek street"
"Well, as traditional as sleeping with you sounds. No thanks. I don't sleep with walking sexual diseases. Especially stupid ones that got held back a year" Rie turned and made her way back to the Tri-pi house.
"Meow" Julia grinned at Ray "you've met your match"
"Bitch" Ray muttered as the two girls walked away from the Kappa Tau house.
Ray turned and went back into his domain and sighed.
"Dude!" Gary appeared and punched him in the back.
Ray winced, the bulky six feet seven packed a punch "What's up?"
"I saw you talking to Julia and the other hot girl, how did it go?"
"Uh, it didn't"
"What do you mean?" Michael appeared, his handsome face pulled into a bemused one "you were talking for them for a long time, especially the tanned one"
"Yeah, well she burned me good guys…I'd keep away gentlemen, far far away"
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