Beth

I knew that I should've stayed at home. But nooo, I had to leave the comfort of my rental apartment just to meet up with the girl that I thought was interested in me. I don't even want to name names here, it'll do no one any good.

Fine, let's just call her Beth.

No it's not short for anything. I'm not even going to say if it's even remotely close to her real name since that's irrelevant. Thing is, Beth and I met at the library that afternoon. I was looking up some old books to borrow and read to pass the boring weekend that was coming up, and she was this chick that suddenly came up to me and most literally bumped into me. I looked up from the book I was browsing in annoyance, and was greeted with a bespectacled brunette with hair that dangled just slightly past her white shirt-covered breasts.

``Oh sorry!'' She said first, breaking the silence of the library and before I could gather my wits from being cutingly assaulted by her. ``I wasn't seeing where I was going.''

``That's alright,'' I replied and was about to look back into my book when I found a pair of well-kept hands suddenly pusing that book downwards from me. ``Hey---''

``Shhh... it's the library. No need to shout. You look like a decent sort of person. Are you free this weekend?''

``Wha, what? What's up with this weekend? Are you trying to ask me out? Hell, I don't even know you!''

``Hush...'' she hissed, ``didn't I just tell you not to shout? Fine sorry. Let me start over. I'm Beth, and there's this party thing at my sorority that is going on this weekend. Thing is, it's a social party event thing that we are doing to encourage people outside of the Greek organisations to meet up with us and well socialise. You look like you might not be from a fraternity. So... are you free to come with me to this party thing?''

I squinted my eyes and looked at her beyond the simple framing of her hair about her face. In particular, I was looking straight into her eyes, trying to detect any sort of bullshit that was behind the words that she just said. I wasn't actually trying to be cynical, but things like that never happened in real life, and there was just something fishy about this entire... encounter. All I saw was just a pair of eyes that seemed to be twinkling for no discernible reason, and I was hoping to myself that it wasn't mischief I was seeing.

``I was about to get some books to read at home when you bumped into me...''

``So that means you'll come then? That's great! Meet me at the cross junction between Green and Washington at six tomorrow and we'll head off to the sorority house. It's a date then!'' She turned and started to walk off.

``Wait, hold on! Which sorority are you from again?''

``Omega Delta Kappa. See you tomorrow!''

I stood there and watched her leave the stacks, my brain highly confused. There was something about her that turned me on in a way that defied reasoning, but at the back of my mind, I felt that something just wasn't right. No matter though, the date had been promised, and it would be bad if I didn't show up, right?

But she didn't even ask for my name! How could she pin the blame of my non-appearance on me?

But then again, she'd probably figured out that the library was a place I was most likely to be visiting and could just stake it out and hunt me down for my no-show, if she were really that diabolical. Was she?

I scratched my head in confusion and tossed the whole mess to the back of my head as I walked towards the check-out counter with my book in tow.

------

The weekend came altogether too fast, and the clock was reading five o'clock when I looked at it groggily. Actually that was a lie. I was up reading the book till late, and decided to sleep in during the morning with the shades down low on my windows. That explained why I was up at the unholy hour of five in the evening in a state that is best used to describe zombies.

Then I remembered the accidental date and bolted upright.

Eh, should I even go for that shady-sounding business? I mean, she did mention the sorority she was from right? Omega Sigma... Kappa or something. I should probably check it out to see if it were a real sorority; those Greek organisations have so many weird and hard-to-understand acronyms that it's impossible to tell if any particular three-letter thing is indeed a fraternity or sorority. But what should I check it with? My laptop's on the fritz and is at the technician's for repair, while my cellphone didn't have a data plan to go with it. And my room mate would never let me touch his computers, not since last time when I accidentally wiped out a hard drive.

So... should I turn up?

One part of my mind, the prefrontal cortex perhaps, was screaming at me to ignore the invitation and stay at home: `Nothing good could ever come out of the meeting with that unknown girl!' it tried to warn me. But another part of my mind, the primal part maybe, was like `Oh yeah baby that's a hot chick that just asked you out! Think of the kinky stuff she might want you to do with her!'. It was like a fight among the Titans, and in the end, curiousity got the better of me and I decided to meet up at the given time at the given place.

That's the reason I'm using and I'm sticking with that. It has nothing to do with what primal brain said. I swear.

At six o'clock then I found myself waiting at the crosswalk between Green and Washington, a rather busy part of the circling road on campus. Students were hustling about, some walking from the dormitory quad towards the campus recreation centre, while others were passing through from the nearby neighbourhood of rental apartments, same sort of place that I was staying. I stood next to the traffic light and waited impatiently.

I wondered if Beth would turn up. Part of me wished she would, while the other was highly skeptical. I waited for fifteen minutes. It was a boring fifteen minutes. At the end of that time period, I cursed softly under my breath for being played a fool and was about to turn around to walk back to my apartment when I saw a brunette running across the road towards me. She was wearing glasses and had longish hair that was billowing out from the self-made breeze from the run as the lights blinked green before turning amber. She made it across the road and stopped just beside me as the light turned to red in her direction.

``Yay, you're here,'' I said in an unenthusiastic voice. ``I was about to return home too.''

``Baaah...'' she replied, trying to catch her breath, her bosoms heaving slightly as she snatched in mouthfuls of air. ``Hold on... lemme catch my breath first. I should really do more work outs...''

I was inclined to agree with her. While she was running, I could see how tightly her denim jeans were clinging to her legs and thighs as her buttoned up shirt held on to dear life to wrap itself around her contours. She was no fatty, but she did look like it would help her to lose a little bit of the chub. But in a sense, she looked cute. Endearing even.

``Okay... hi again!'' Beth said cheerfully in a more normal tone of voice. ``Sorry for keeping you waiting. There were some last minute things we needed to do back at the House because one of the sisters was down with a cold and couldn't execute her duty.''

``Execute?''

``Yeah, okay, `do'. Same thing. She was supposed to pick up some stuff from the post office but didn't do so being sick and all, and it wasn't until much later that we realised it was gotten.''

``Oh? What was it?'' I asked, curious. It was all starting to sound even more shady now then when I was thinking about it alone in my room.

``Oh don't worry about it, it's been settled.'' Sidestepped. I cursed silently. ``Shall we go?''

``Sure... except I have no idea where the house of Omega Sigma Kappa is.''

``It's Omega Delta Kappa! Geez, I can't believe that you can't remember something as simple as this.'' Beth was dragging me by the elbows as this point to follow where she was going.

``I'm not that conversant with Greek organisations. Besides, I don't even know you! You just grabbed me somehow yesterday by `accident' or something. I have no idea why I'm even following you now!''

``Pfft... because you find me cute! Admit it, am I not cute?'' Beth said, stopping suddenly and whipping herself about, and stared at me through her glasses, with her long brunette hair framing her soft fair face, with a pout that would put any hot-blooded male's knees to failure.

``Uhhh...''

``See? I told you so! Now come along now. It's a five-minute walk only if we walk faster.'' She turned around and continued to drag me along.

I found us walking along the peripheries of the campus after the initial quick cut through, and were moving past the fraternities' quad where most of the fraternities and sororities were located. That started to fill me with some discomfort. It seemed that the Omega Delta Kappa sorority was one of the few off-campus sororities, which meant that if there was to be any monkey business, there would be no one who could come and save me.

Wait. Why did I suddenly think about this `monkey business'? Was there really something ominous coming up?

``Thinking about something?'' Beth asked as she led on. ``Two minutes to go and we'll be there!''

``Well, not really...'' I said.

``Huh, someone's getting all defensive huh... I'm sure you find this all quite confusing at this point. I guess you're thinking, why am I being dragged about by this cute girl to a sorority party? Because it is our motto to make friends and to help people make friends!''

``You could... always get other people too...''

``Oh we could! But we know that you're not very social. We have been observing you, and a whole bunch of others who are just as unsocial as you. Let's just say it's not a random occurrence that you bumped into me!''

``Well technically, you're the one who bumped into me...''

``Pfft... details details details. Anyway, we're here!'' Beth declared with a grin on her face.

And that's the last thing I remembered because at that point, I was brained in the head and lost consciousness.

------

When I woke up, I found myself back in my apartment, lying on my bed, with a headache that felt terrible. I groaned and rolled out of bed, and held my head in between my hands. Just what the hell happened, I had no clue.

Maybe I was knocked out.

A brown envelope caught my eye. I didn't remember having any brown envelopes lying around in my room. Confused and curious, I picked it up and was mildly surprised to see my name on it. I ripped it open and a stack of photographs fell to the ground. They were all coloured photographs and they had me in it.

Except... they weren't very nice pictures.

It seemed like I was being put through a lot of rather... compromising positions, with women dressed in all manner of dominatrix outfits. Among the photographs was a small note which was handwritten. Disgusted, I picked up the note to read it. It was from Beth.

``Hi! Hope you enjoyed the party as much as we had! Sorry we had to knock you out before hand. Here're some photographs for your memory! =)

``Love, Beth

``PS: If you try to out us, I will guarantee that this pictures will be all over the internet.''

The headache raged through my brain. I knew that I should've stayed at home. But nooo, I had to leave the comfort of my rental apartment just to meet up with the girl that I thought was interested in me.