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we’ve had an actual date this time.” I’m not
sure where the sudden nerve came from. Normally, I had trouble
forming coherent sentences around Dylan.
    His eyes widened. “Doesn’t a plan to take you
out tomorrow night count?” He reached out to run a hand down my arm
again.
    “Nope. Maybe you’ll get lucky tomorrow
night.” I hoped it came across as flirty and not stupid.
    He tugged on my arm to pull me back. “I
better. I’ve been waiting weeks for you.” He looked into my
eyes.
    “If you say so.” I turned and caught a
murderous look from Amanda. What the heck was that for? I was
wearing my pledge pin and a button on my purse. What else was I
supposed to do? I smiled, pretending not to notice the glare. I
walked off in search of my friends.
    “Juliet?” I looked up into Kyle Bradley’s
blue eyes. They were eerily similar to his brother Dylan’s.
    “Hey, Kyle.” I’m sure my jaw was on the
floor. Kyle had really grown up since the last time I’d seen him.
He was bigger, broader, and—dare I say—sexier.
    He gave me a hug and then took a step back.
“You look amazing.”
    I looked down at my outfit. I guess he liked
short skirts. If I’d still been working through Amy’s list, my
skirt probably counted as an outfit that would have given my dad a
heart attack. “Thanks.”
    “You’re pledging Delta Mu?”
    “Yup. I’m guessing you’re pledging here.”
    “Yeah, my dad was an Omega too…it’s kind of a
family thing.”
    “Cool.”
    He shrugged. “Maybe.”
    “What dorm are you in?” I went for the
question every freshman asked.
    “Dells. You?”
    “Maude.”
    “Cool. So, you and Dylan, huh?”
    “He told you what happened?”
    “Uh, yeah. At first I thought he was trying
to rub it in my face, but he was really trying to find out if I had
your number.”
    “Yeah… I kind of forgot to give it to
him.”
    “I was hoping you’d taken off because the sex
was so bad you finally had him out of your system, but no such
luck, huh?”
    I laughed. Wow, way too close for comfort.
“We’ll see how it goes.”
    “Hmm, interesting response.”
    I playfully punched his arm. “Don’t read into
it.”
    “Oh, I will.”
    “Hey, pledge, I need you to clean up a mess,”
Ryan shouted at Kyle.
    “What mess?”
    “This one.” Ryan turned over his cup of beer
and spilled it all over the floor. Everyone turned to stare at
us.
    What a jerk. “Oh my god.”
    Kyle shrugged. “You’ve got to love being a
pledge.”
    He handled it better than I would’ve. It was
hard enough for me to keep my mouth shut, and I wasn’t the one
being hazed. “Oh yeah.”
    Ryan took a step toward us. “Pledge!”
    “See you around.” Kyle walked off to find
something to clean up the beer.
    As soon as Kyle was gone, Ryan joined me.
“Dylan’s out back. I’ll take you to find him.”
    “What was that for?”
    Gone was the friendly guy from earlier. “A
word of advice: don’t flirt with another guy at your boyfriend’s
house—especially not a pledge.”
    “First of all, I wasn’t flirting. Second of
all, it was Dylan’s brother. And thirdly, I’m not Dylan’s
girlfriend.”
    Ryan shook his head. “Really? Does Dylan know
that?”
    “I’m going to go find my friends.” Ryan
really annoyed me with the way he treated Kyle. Pledge or not,
there was no excuse for it.
    “I’ll help you.”
    “What, you afraid I’m going to hook up with a
random pledge?”
    He laughed. “You’re not that stupid.”
    I pushed through the crowds and finally
spotted Cara and Mallory talking to some guys.
    “Hey, I thought we’d lost you…but I see
you’ve found someone else.” Cara winked.
    I didn’t bother to introduce him, but Ryan
did it himself. “I’m Ryan.”
    “Nice to meet you.” Mallory smiled.
    “You decided to ditch Dylan already?” Cara
laughed.
    “So funny.”
    Ryan turned his attention to the other guys.
“In case you haven’t heard, this is Dylan’s