“A plan? To get you into the house too?”

I shook my head. “Nope. They wanted Karly to prove herself, because despite coming from New York, she was there on scholarship. She didn’t come from money, have a fancy name, or impressive pedigree. She was a nobody and that sorority rarely enlisted nobodies.”

“This is why I went to college online,” Luna added with a smile, trying to make light.

“I wish I had thought of that, but when you are fresh out of high school with the world at your fingertips, you sometimes crave that new experience. I know I did. That’s why I was living in the dorms, after all.”

“So, what exactly did they want Karly to do?”

“She was to convince me that they weren’t all that bad and that I didn’t need to join the sorority. She wanted me to hang out with them and maybe then I would trust them enough to pledge the following year. I figured, what the hell, it would allow me to keep the peace with my roommate. I liked Karly. She was smart, and so enthusiastic about everything. She matched my energy back then, so we started hanging out more, going to parties, getting to know people and doing all the social stuff on campus together.

“I got to know the other girls too. I thought we were all becoming friends. I trusted them enough to talk about my crush at the time.” I stopped to take an extremely long sip of my mimosa, while consequently wishing I had a stronger drink because I was going to need it for the rest of this. “I’m a tiny girl,” I admitted.

“No! You don’t say?” Luna teased. “You’re fucking adorable though. I love your pixie figure.”

“Well, not many people do, apparently. After I told them about my crush, suddenly he started showing up everywhere. I didn’t think anything of it. I brushed it off as coincidence. One day, he bumped into me in the library. Did I mention that my crush was a running back on the football team? He was huge. The guy was over six feet tall and outweighed me by a lot, obviously since he was all muscle. The good kind though, he had to be fast, so he wasn’t as bulky as some of the other guys. Anyway,” I waved the thought away quickly. “He was a junior that year, and I was an idiot. That day when he bumped into me, it was the beginning of their elaborate setup. He asked me out, told me he had seen me around and had been asking about me. I ate it up. I wasn’t that popular with the guys in high school because I never had the boobs that the other girls could flaunt, you know?”

Luna glanced down at herself. She was naturally curvy. “Yeah, I remember the type. They couldn’t seem to look me in the eye once I grew these suckers during the summer between ninth and tenth grade. I almost want to say you were lucky, but something tells me it didn’t feel that way to you.”