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know anyone that creepy.”
    “Sure you do. We all do. We just don’t know it, because they’re creepy enough to hide it.” Brendan smiled the smile that had won Maxie’s heart. “Creepy people don’t walk around with signs hanging around their necks saying, ‘Don’t trust me, I’m creepy.’ ”
    Maxie laughed, and reached for a slice of pizza.
    “So,” Brendan said casually, “you going to move back to the dorm or what?”
    “I’m not moving anywhere,” Maxie said firmly, taking a healthy bite of cheese-and-tomato-sauced crust. “Omega house is where I live now. No one’s chasing me out with some stupid stunts.”
    “Then you’d better think about tightening security around that place,” Brendan said, his voice grim. “You just told me someone’s been getting into the place without anyone raising an eyebrow. Maybe he’s just pulling ‘stupid stunts’ now, but if you don’t do something to keep him out, who knows what he’ll do next?”
    Maxie put her pizza back on her plate. Brendan sounded just like Jenna. “Who knows what he’ll do next?” Wasn’t that exactly what Erica had been afraid to say out loud?
    Seeing that he had upset her, Brendan added quickly, “It’s probably someone you guys didn’t let into the inner sanctum. You know, someone who didn’t make it into Omega Phi. I guess that’s worse than death to some girls, crazy as that sounds. I don’t get it, myself. What’s the big deal about some silly Greek letters.”
    Maxie toyed with a fork as Brendan’s suggestion registered. “Someone we rushed and then didn’t accept?”
    “There must be a whole bunch of girls on this campus you guys didn’t take,” Brendan said. “Maybe one of them is a lot unhappier about it than the others. She could be out to make you all as miserable as you made her.”
    Maxie thought about that for a moment. Two girls in particular came to mind: Isabella Sands and Holly Dukes. Both had been shocked when they hadn’t made it into Omega Phi, and neither had made any secret of her feelings. Isabella had accosted Maxie on campus, angrily questioning her, and Holly had phoned Erica more than once to demand an explanation. But Isabella had a nasty disposition and a habit of spreading rumors about people, while Holly was painfully shy, almost withdrawn. Still, she had seemed very determined to become an Omega Phi Delta.
    Maxie had heard that the vote was unanimous in both cases. Not Omega Phi material.
    I got in and they didn’t, Maxie thought now. Am I going to pay for that?
    Brendan insisted on driving her back to the house in his car. Maxie had an uneasy feeling that he didn’t want her going back to Omega house alone.
    Tomorrow she would ask Erica about Tom Tuttle. How long had he worked at Omega house? Where had he come from? He didn’t have a criminal record, did he?
    She could only hope that Erica would have the answers to those questions.
    And maybe it wouldn’t hurt to talk to Isabella and Holly, too. See if they still seemed as angry about being rejected by the sorority of their choice. She already knew they hadn’t been pledged to any other sorority. They were both still living at Lester, one floor above Jenna.
    “Look,” Brendan said solemnly before he kissed her good night, “I don’t want to get all crazed about this, but if this funny business keeps up, promise me you’ll think about moving back to Lester, okay? At least until this stuff blows over? Jenna has room for you. She didn’t get a new roommate yet.”
    The two of them had talked about her? Maxie flushed angrily, and her good-night kiss was cooler than usual.
    Brendan didn’t seem to notice. “See you tomorrow,” he said. “Lock your door, okay?” And he loped down the steps and over to his car, where he stopped and watched to make sure she was safely inside. Only then did he leave.
    The house was quiet, the big living room empty, the television off. Muted sounds of music and conversation and running water