A grin spread across Hanna’s face. She seemed to be really enjoying this. “Just like we receive new sisters who must prove themselves, Alpha Gamma receives new brothers that must prove themselves as well. Every so often, an Alpha gets challenged by an upstart. If that upstart wins, he wins a special offering from Kappa Beta for one night.”
Sara glared. “Am I understanding you right? Are you saying that the sacrifice is one of us contest losers?”
Hanna’s grin nearly split her face. “Correct.”
“That’s such bullshit!” Sara raged. She looked around at her gathered sisters. “C’mon guys, a dildo-sucking contest is ridiculous enough as it is, but our body being offered to do some dumb, iron pumping jock? That’s absolutely nuts!”
“You gave an oath when you joined this sorority that you would do anything for your sisters,” Hanna pointed out.
“Yeah, I did, but I didn’t agree to prostitution.”
“It’s not prostitution,” Hanna argued.
Sara looked unconvinced. “Yeah? Then what is it?”
“It’s called ‘taking one for the team.”
“Oh give me a break-“
“Anyway,” Hanna cut in loudly, turning away from Sara like she was old news, “I’m going to try something new this year.”
“What?” someone in the crowd asked.
Hanna’s eyes roved over the contest losers. “Usually the one who was knocked out of the contest first would be the sacrifice. This year, I’m going to let Veronica pull a name out of a hat. Whatever name she pulls, is the sacrifice.”
The crowd broke off into excited murmuring.
Hanna gestured to one of the girls in the crowd. “Get the hat, Ashley.”
While the crowd murmured excitedly, Ashley scurried off and then returned a few minutes later with a NSU hat and the scribbled all our names on it. Meanwhile, I was still trying to wrap my mind around it all. One of the losers of the contest would be giving her body to a total stranger?
What the hell had I gotten myself into?
Hanna grabbed the hat from Ashley and the crowd quieted. “Veronica.”
Veronica stepped forward eagerly. I could tell she was enjoying this too much.
“No peeking,” Hanna warned, holding out the hat to Veronica. “Reach in there without looking.”
Veronica turned away and blindly reached into the hat. She dug around for a moment while everyone whispered amongst each other. Several of the losers looked anxious while they watched Veronica, probably worrying that their name would be pulled out of the hat while others looked pretty excited.
Sara scowled at Veronica, who was still blindly shuffling through the hat. “There is no way in hell I’m agreeing to this if she pulls my name out of that hat. They will just have to kick me out.”
Sara’s comments made me think to myself, what if Veronica pulled my name?
She isn’t, I told myself. There’s no way she’ll chose me. There’s eight other girls’ names in there.
Veronica finally grabbed a folded piece of paper out of the hat and opened it. She gave a dramatic pause as she stared at the paper.
We all waited with baited breath.
“Well?” Hanna demanded impatiently. Who is it?”
Veronica tore her eyes away from the paper and my heart began to pound as her gaze centered on me like a hawk. “Bella James.”
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