Rachel stormed into the Kappa Iota
Lambda house and headed straight for her room.
She was so confused. Everything Stephen had said had made sense, but a
part of her still thought that he was trying to avoid being punished. There was
a chance he had made all that shit up, but when she had talked to him he had
seemed so sincere.
She plopped down onto her bed, and
felt something bump against her leg. She reached down, picking up a small
envelope. She looked it over, and could
feel something solid inside. On the
front was her name.
“What the hell?” She ran her finger
over the small bump under the thin paper of the envelope.
It felt like stone, but when her
fingers touched it she felt a small tingle run through her fingers. She started
to open the envelope, then paused. She had a strange feeling she didn’t want to
know what was inside.
She shook her head. It was just a
letter. Probably from one of her pledges, trying to get an edge on the other
girls by giving her a little gift or something.
It happened all the time.
She opened the letter, and tipped it
so that a small, blue stone fell out into her palm. It was cold to the touch, and that tingling
sensation was stronger now. Gently she
placed it down on the bed, then pulled out the small note from the envelope.
Her eyes started scanning it, but
before she could read further she heard the door to her room open.
“Love note?”
Rachel looked up to see the vice
president of Kappa Iota Lambda, Alice McGovern looking at her. She was smirking.
“I don’t think so.” Rachel shook her
head.
“Oh? What’s it say?”
Rachel took a deep breath and
started reading the note aloud.
“Find a host, and plant the
seed. Once it blooms, you shall receive the
revenge you seek.” She folded the note. “Signed ‘A Friend’.”
“How ominous!” Alice clapped her
hands and laughed. She spotted the blue stone sitting on the bed next to
Rachel, and swooped in, picking it up. “Is this the seed?”
“I guess so.”
Alice started rubbing her hands
together. “Weird.”
“Made your skin tingle, right?”
Rachel glanced down at the small stone.
“Yeah.” Alice nodded. “It didn’t
exactly feel bad. It just felt… wrong.”
Rachel just nodded, scooping up the
small stone and the note, placing both back into the envelope. “Maybe I’ll have
someone down in the geology department look at it.”
She picked up the envelope and
placed it in her bag.
“So, how did the meeting with the Dean
go?” Alice quickly sat down on Rachel’s bed. “Any chance of getting Stephen and
his brothers kicked out of school?”
Rachel shook her head. “No, and as
much as I hate saying this, it really looks like Stephen and his house didn’t
spread those pictures.”
“What?” Alice sat up straight. “How
the hell does that work?”
Rachel turned to her, crossing her
arms and leaning against her dresser. “It looks like the Delta Alpha Kappa
house got hacked. As in, all of their webcams got hacked. There is a good
chance ours did, too. Stephen had all the paperwork to prove it, too.”
“Seriously?”
“Seriously. You know what is even
more fucked up? Even with all the evidence that Stephen had, and he had a lot,
the Dean wouldn’t do anything.”
“You have to be kidding me.” Alice
looked shocked.
“Wish I was.” Rachel glanced at her
bag. “At this rate I may have to give that little ‘seed’ a shot at getting
things right around this campus.”
As she said the words Rachel had a
growing feeling in her gut that there was a good possibility that if she tried
it, that little stone might work. She just wasn’t sure she would like the
results.
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