The Beginning
1135 Words
February 15 2015
Dear Diary
You'll never believe it. I actually made it into Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Sandy did too. We aren't sharing a room anymore though because she's older than me having been a transfer student. It also means she doesn't have to take part in pledge pranks and trials. I guess I can't complain but I'm not sure if this is what I want anymore.I guess reality is always different to what we expect, that's for sure. But I'm going to be a sorority sister and in the one I wanted to get into. Especially since being a legacy doesn't mean anything apparently, the girls not caring about that at all. So I don't know what made them accept me but I am so happy they did. My life is going to change so much now. Everything is just falling neatly into place and it's unreal.
The day they announced my acceptance to their sorority I was walking on air. Floating you could say. I had done what I planned on and I was successful at getting in. But I guess there's going to be a fair bit of stuff to go through before being fully taken into the fold as a sister. I had visions of sleepover party's, girly events and stupid things like doing our nails together or helping each other with makeovers, that sort of thing. Bit stupid now that I actually think about it. I think I've watched too many movies with unrealistic expectations centred around them. But who cares when the reality is going to be so much better than an old movie. This is real life not a stereotypical sorority house where everybody gets along etc. Besides when we all get to know each other properly it will be a bit smoother and a bit more welcoming.
Last night all of us pledges were told that a nice dinner was being prepared for us. We were to dress formal and sit in our assigned seats. It surprised me that no one but us pledges were eating but I thought maybe it was just something they did for pledges like a tradition or something. Boy was I stupid. I should have suspected something was going on from the get go, but like everyone else I shrugged off my suspicions and decided to enjoy the dinner while getting to know some of the other pledges sitting at the table, making small talk and enjoying the food together. The atmosphere was really nice. But it felt weird being served like rich people who had their own waiters to serve them hand and foot. Not something I think I would want to get used to, it was way too awkward. I had to resist getting up and helping them, something I'm sure would have been frowned upon. It's something I thought maybe they did for all of the new girls in the sorority, like a tradition or something.
The food was good diary. Really really good. Ordered from some sort of fancy restaurant. There was lobster cakes, pate, mocktails, little cakes and sorbet for those who didn't want to eat anything so rich or watching their weight I guess. Not something ever worry about, not when there is such good and delicious smelling foor right in front of my eyes.It was so elegant, fancy, rich. We filled out stomachs, the little cakes so delicious that I had several. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. Always trust your instincts, never ever dismiss them.We have instincts for a reason. So it kind of makes sense to listen to them. God I wish I had, so wish I had.
We should have guessed there was something going on, that it wasn't just to be nice. We were pledges after all. It just never occurred to us that they would be this cruel or savage, not in the beginning at least. The food contained laxatives. A huge amount of them. Not long after we finished the dinner we saw everyone vanish and just looked at each other confused. Why were they all gone? Because they knew what was about to happen. It was inevitable and they didn't want to be in the room to witness the fruition of their efforts and deceit.
It was horrendous. Our stomachs began to growl in unison, the cramping pain intolerable. I was bent double as sheer pain ripped through me, staggering in haste upstairs to my room. I barely made it. I had just gotten myself into the bathroom and sat on the toilet when it started. My guts started twisting on the insides, small cries coming from me as the hours passed and I was unable to get up, the laxatives so strong that it was morning before I dared stand up. Even then I dreaded having to move, worried that I hadn't quite finished. I'd never felt so weak or light headed in all my life, not even when I was extremely sick with the flu. That's how terrible it really was.
I managed to shower and crawl into bed, sleeping and trying muy best to rest and to recover. When I made it out the other pledges told me some of them hadn't made it to their rooms in time, their voices bitter and embarrassed. All of us were pale, weak and trembling as we ate, one girl leaving the sorority for good and even declaring she would find another university instead, not wanting to remember the humiliation of the night before. I felt sorry for her but was more sorry for myself truth be honest.
Welcome to Kappa Kappa Gamma the leader declared. Rihanna is her name and there's something strange about her. It was like she was gloating and enjoying what they had done to us. Like she had really enjoyed inflicting that kind of prank and cruelty on us. I guess maybe all that gossip I actually heard might have been the actual truth after all and not some vindictave girls spewing lies. Well hopefully she warms up to us in time. It could just be an act she's putting on, surely no one is that mean and cruel in real life?
I'm not letting them beat me down. I will become a permanent Kappa Kappa Gamma and prove that I deserve to be there. Let them play their stupid pranks and jokes. In the end I'll be what I've always wanted. I won't give up now, not when I'm so close to my dream. I can endure anything if I put my mind to it. This is just a prank and there probably won't be any others anyway. Hopefully they just do that as a welcoming thing and then welcome us fully into the fold? I guess I'll find out.
Love Misty
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