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Chapter 4

“What the fuck is going on!” Mia heard the startled voice come from the bed opposite. Becky was just as startled as Mia but had decided to voice her complaints.
“Alright little sisters,” Michelle interjected, “Everybody needs to head down to the dining room immediately. There is a compulsory meeting for all pledges of the sorority. If you are not downstairs in two minutes there will be punishments.” The same speech was being shouted right down the corridor to the other bedrooms.
“Can we at least get changed?” Mia croaked. The adrenaline was making her wide awake but her body was still completely exhausted.
Michelle grinned. “No time pledge, wear your pyjamas.” The door was quickly closed behind her.

Mia looked across at Becky, confused and anxious. Becky returned the same confused look but then smiled. It suddenly felt quite fun, an element of excitement flowing through both of them. They both quickly clamoured out of the room, Mia just sporting a large t-shirt and a pair of panties. Becky was wearing a full outfit of pink duck pyjamas. Upon leaving they saw the other pledges, all dazed and startled. Some were even less decent. One girl, Jenny, was wearing a surprisingly sexy bra and panties combination. As one they all trudged down the stairs in a zombie like state towards the dining room.

Upon eventually stumbling in the sight took their breath away. All the tables had been removed and the chairs stacked in a corner. All thirty sisters were stood back against the walls, nine on each side with three against the furthest wall, the officers. The entire center space was completely open. Each of the sisters wore a long dark hooded robe and held a flickering candle. Mia thought back and realised that Michelle had been wearing one of the robes when waking them. The candles provided the only light in the room. The pledge class slowly shuffled into the center of the room, slightly intimidated by the atmosphere caused by the eerie, flickering light and the silent hooded people surrounding the room.

After reaching the center of the room, the girls on the outside shuffled across to close off all exits, spreading themselves around the walls. Each girl had their hoods up and heads bowed, preventing any pledge from identifying who was who. For a long while they waited, leaving the pledges to wait silently in the unnerving light. Despite Mia knowing this was all for pledge week and that they were trying to frighten the pledges, it was still working. The silence had her shuffling nervously.

Finally the three isolated figures stepped forwards causing the pledges to instinctively back off; they were unable to go far though. The figure in the middle threw back her hood. “Good evening Ladies, and welcome to pledge week” Alexis spoke coolly.

“Welcome,” all the other sisters replied in unison causing the pledges to shudder. The two figures either side of Alexis removed their hoods to unsurprisingly reveal Steph and Hannah. This seemed to be a cue to all the other sisters who threw back their own hoods but remained silent at the edge of the room. Mia still felt nervous and could sense the tension within the pledge class. The whole thing felt extremely disorientating.

Steph began to speak solemnly. “I will be passing around three bowls. Each contains slips of paper. You must take one piece from each bowl but we request for now that you do not open it.” She handed out three bowls to the pledge class who began to slowly pass them around. Mia took her three and clutched them hard, almost scared they would disappear.

Alexis began to move, pacing slowly in between the tight circle formed by the pledges and the larger intimidating circle formed by the sisters. She began to speak, almost rhythmically. “Everything leading up to this point has been preface, rush culling, friendly introductions, setup. These were the easy parts of your initiation to the sorority, as well as being the boring parts. No longer is that the case. The next week will be your true initiation into the sorority, when you truly become a member, one of us. It will be difficult. It will be confusing. It will change the way that you thing about yourself and your sisters. Mostly it will be very fun.” Alexis finished her speech after full circle stopping back between Steph and Hannah, turned to face the pledges and grinned devilishly.

“Jenny Adamson.” Hannah called out. The girl to the right of Mia flinched and backed away nervously, afraid that she may have done something wrong.
“Yes” she asked anxiously.
“Open your three pieces of paper and read them aloud.” Steph demanded.
Jenny gulped and swallowed hard. “Umm… okay” she said before fumbling with the papers in her hands. “They say Sasha Day, Michelle Conway and Danni Newton.” Jenny read off the names of three sorority sisters’ names causing confusion among the pledges.

“You have just read off the names of your big sisters for pledge week. One sophomore, one junior, and one senior.” Alexis informed her. “These big sisters will be yours for the rest of your life, but for this week they will be more than that. They are your guides and your masters. If you have any questions or problems you can consult any of your big sisters. In exchange you will be completely under the control of your big sisters, anything they ask of you, from the mundane to the most difficult of tasks you must complete. Any refusal to follow orders is grounds for the potential expulsion of you from the sorority. There will also be organised activities with your big sisters later in the week.”

“Mia Close.” Hannah called out without leaving any pause from Alexis finishing. The sisters were well rehearsed to help increase the intimidating aspect of the procedure. Upon hearing her name Mia began to shake uncontrollably.
“Open your pieces of paper and read out the names!” She heard Steph call at her.
Mia gripped the pieces of paper. “Yeah…. The names are Cal Jeffers, Monica Ambrose and…... Steph Close” Mia finished. There was an audible gasp around the room followed by instant murmuring from the sisters between themselves. Mia looked up and saw Steph frantically shaking her head.

“No, we need to redraw, we can’t have this.” Steph said frantically. The demeanour in her voice now totally dropped. She sounded panicked and frightened. Alexis was still smiling though.
“Silence!” she called, staying in character and hushing the sisters around the room. She turned her attention to Steph and hissed out a reply. “There are no re-pulls, it is expressly forbidden in the by-laws, and you of all people should know that.”
“But this isn’t a normal situation.” Steph said. Mia looked on angrily; she couldn’t believe her sister was so angry that she’d refuse to be her guide, being able to boss her around for a week. Mia thought it’d be dreams come true.

“Yeah, I don’t know Alexis.” Hannah whispered sounding very unsure. This caught Mia by surprise; she’d always taken Hannah as someone who would just do whatever Alexis would say.
“Even if I wanted to change it, I cannot.” Alexis replied. “It’s against the rules.”
“I demand an immediate vote for an exemption from the by-laws!” Steph shouted getting more infuriated by the second it appeared.
“Sorry Steph, parliamentary procedures are not allowed for use in modifying pledge week ceremonies. You would need to petition to the national organisation which doesn’t meet again until August.” The pledge class and Mia were all incredibly confused. The rest of the room had returned to murmuring among them whispering to each other.
“You are absolutely disgusting.” Steph retorted. Mia couldn’t even begin to understand what that might mean.

“I don’t make the rules Steph, I just enforce them. That’s what presidents do.” Alexis replied. Steph looked on the brink of exploding, staring daggers at the society president. The room began to fill with an all new tension. She looked around the room at others almost trying to get someone to come to her aid, but everyone seemed frozen, almost as if they respected tradition too much to say anything.
“Fine whatever” Steph finally said totally defeated. She cast her head down and behaved glumly for the remainder of the ceremony. Mia was completely confused and worried about the whole episode. It seemed more was going on than she understood; she desperately tried to catch her sister’s eye but was being totally ignored.

Alexis pushed on with the ceremony with all the sisters seeming to put the incident to the back of their minds. Soon each pledge had their three big sisters. Becky had even got Alexis as her senior sister.

“Now, I suppose some of you probably still don’t understand what I mean when I discuss doing whatever is asked from a big sister. Tonight I will make one demonstration as is tradition. Becky please step forward.” Becky gave Mia a shrug before moving from next to her towards the president. All the pledges were curious about what would happen as Becky stopped in front of Alexis.

“Becky, you are my little sister, do you understand?” she asked.
“Yes” Becky replied in a soft voice, clearly intimidated.
“Good, then I demand that you give me a kiss.” Alexis said. The room became absolutely silent. Becky looked around nervously and then laughed.
“What?” she asked.
Alexis sighed slightly. “Becky, as this was the first request and demonstration I will ask you one more time. For future reference, failure to do as asked upon first command of the request is grounds for expulsion. There is no joking in this issue, give me a kiss.” Becky paused for a moment and looked closer at Alexis.

She saw now in Alexis’s cold, calculating, deep eyes that pausing for longer than a few seconds might actually result in her being excluded from the sorority. Shocked, Becky raised herself to her tip toes, tilted her head slightly and leaned forward until her lips locked against the presidents. Becky was stiff and nervous. Alexis’ hands rose slowly and landed lightly on Becky’s hips; she pulled her closer, their breasts pressed together. Alexis’ mouth opened and her tongue pressed lightly against Becky’s lips. Becky began to loosen slightly and began to melt into the kiss; her lips parted allowing Alexis’ tongue to slowly snake into her mouth. Their tongues rolled softly eliciting gentle wet sounds echoing around the room. In mere moments the kiss transformed from forced and awkward to passionate and natural. Becky was transfixed, lost to the fact anybody other than the president was still present.

Eventually, Alexis abruptly broke the kiss. Becky stood for a moment, completely dazed, her eyes still closed. She came around slowly, dropped from her tip toes and looked around the room self consciously. She clearly seemed embarrassed by the number of girls who had just witnessed her in such a fervent embrace. The rest of the pledge class were too shocked to speak though and the sisters seemed completely unaffected, if not slightly excited.

“Thank you Becky, remember, no delays, only obey.” Alexis said directly to Becky. Becky returned to the pledge class taking her place back beside Mia, her face flushed and breathing shallow, her heart could almost be heard pounding against her chest. “Well Pledges,” continued Alexis now directing her attention to all. “I hope you now understand how things work. Becky did a fine job. Now I need you to go upstairs and get some sleep. Things will pick up after class tomorrow.” All the robed girls blew out the candles suddenly leaving the room in total darkness before the light was quickly switched on.

Mia adjusted to the new light as several sisters moved out the way of the exit. The whole pledge class were slightly confused, it had been abrupt, and for a moment they waited for some signal before realising they were supposed to move from the room. Slowly they made their way to the exit. Just as the first girl reached the door Alexis spoke up again.

“Oh, I nearly forgot,” she began in a way which suggested this was completely intentional. “There are two other rules that will be in place over the next week. The first rule is that the blinds must be drawn over the windows at all times during the week.” Mia thought this seemed a particularly strange request.
“Why would that be?” Hannah asked in a theatrical fashion despite it being the exact question many pledges wanted answering.
“Oh, that’s because of the other rule” Alexis replied. “Pledges, any time you are not in class you are expected to be in the sorority house. Any time that you are in the sorority house, you will be totally nude. The blinds will protect your dignity.” Alexis said it without any fanfare; it didn’t really register at first with the pledges. Nude! Nobody moved.

“Did you all forget about the first rule? About not being asked to do anything twice? You are all bound by the president’s word.” Hannah said and it instantly became apparent what she meant to the pledges. They all had to get naked right now, or they’d get kicked out.