Chapter Two

"Um… wow, I uh… I guess, yeah. I mean yeah, of course!" Kono stuttered. Cath smirked and thrust the rose towards Kono.

"Huh, you're cute. I think you'll make it with us," another BAT member said.

"Thanks…" Kono said unsurely.

The other girl turned to Cath, "You gonna call it a night? Or are you gonna come back to the house with us?"

"I think I'll call it a night? Kono was the last one right?"

"Yep."

"Okay I'll see you two tomorrow then."

"Bye Cath." The other two girls said in unison. Did Kono catch a hint of sultriness?

As the girls left Kono turned and walked back into the dorm room and Cath shut the door before joining her.

"Can I ask you a question?" Kono asked.

"You just did." Cath laughed.

"You know what I mean," Kono folded her arms.

"Fine, what is it?"

"Why do you stay in the dorms if you're president of a sorority?"

"Easier to study," Cath shrugged.

"I have never once seen you study," Kono sat on the edge of her bed.

"It's the second week of school, there's not much to study." Cath said and also sat on the edge of her bed.

"I don't believe you but whatever,"

"I take offense to that," Cath mocked a gasp and threw a pillow across the room at Kono.

"Hey! Fine this is mine now." Kono said, and hugged the pillow to her chest.

"Whatever," Cath stood and walked to her desk, "You know after next week you won't have to stay in the dorms either." Cath grabbed a sketchbook off her bookshelf.

"Easier to study here," Kono mocked Cath.

"What's your major anyway?" Cath said not looking up from her drawing.

"Criminal Law." Kono laid back on the bed.

"That's cool" Cath said absentmindedly.

"And yours?" Kono looked up at the ceiling, holding Cath's pillow to her chest.

"Biology," Cath said.

"Pre-med?"

"Actually, no. Why do you have so many questions?"

"Well as long as we're roommates might as well know something about you."

"Well now you know you know something."

"Wow," Kono elongated the "o" sound. "Someone's pushy."

Cath pretended not to hear her and just continued sketching. After a few minutes of silence, Cath realized Kono had fallen asleep. Cath smiled and shook her head before crossing the room to dim a few of the lights.

As Cath finished her drawing, close to an hour later, she noticed Kono looked really cute curled up on top of the bed spread and hugging Cath's pillow. Cath debated flipping the page in her sketchbook and sketching the scene in front of her, but a quick glance at the clock changed her mind. She snapped a quick picture with her phone before turning off the rest of the lights and climbing into bed herself.

When Kono awoke the next morning Cath was already gone, but her sketch book was lying on the desk, flipped open and a couple different pencils were strewn across the desk. Kono made a quick trip down the hall to the bathroom before returning to her dorm to find something to wear. As she was finally deciding between two shirts, Cath came back.

"Hey," Kono said.

"Hey."

"Which one looks better?" Kono held up two shirts, one purple and blouse like the other deep red and form fitting.

"Umm. I like the red, but go with whatever," Cath replied as she sat at her desk.

"If I wanted to 'go with whatever' I wouldn't have asked you."

"Then wear the red." Cath turned her attention to her sketchbook.

Kono walked to the closet where she returned the purple shirt to it's place and donned the red one.

"I didn't know you drew." Kono said upon returning to the center of the room

"That's because I didn't tell you that I draw." Cath never looked up from the sketchbook.

"You know, you're really hard to hold a conversation with." Kono walked over to Cath and sat on the edge of her desk. Cath just shrugged at her.

"My point exactly."

"Can you hand me the sharpie behind you?"

"Sure," Kono handed Cath the marker.

Kono sat in class listening to the professor drone on and on about habeas corpus and what not. Behind her, Kono heard the door open and close. She watched four BAT members enter the room when she turned back to the front of class the girls took a seat behind her. Something Kono had learned about college is that the professors don't care if you're at class or not and as long as you're not disruptive you're punctuality doesn't matter to them. So it wasn't a surprise that the professor didn't say a thing when the four girls showed up halfway through the class, they weren't even in the class.

"Hey, Kono," One of the girls leaned forward.

Kono laid her head against the seat back and said, "Yeah."

"Friday's initiation, and there's a party Cath wants you to be at tonight."

"Okay, but why couldn't Cath just tell me this herself after class?"

"Why doesn't Cath do anything for herself?" the girl countered.

"True, true,"

The four girls stood to leave, and before Kono could stop them to ask another question they had vanished.

After class Kono went back to the dorm to get ready for the party. The girls didn't give any specifics but knowing the BAT's, Kono suspected the night would be filled with lots of red wine (as well as other alcohols), nice dresses, and a few girls dancing sluttily. So Kono searched for what to wear, she was about to be a BAT so she needed to fit in. Despite her cool, calm, and collected outward appearance Kono was ecstatic for Friday's initiation.