Vicki smiles, and cheerfully informs you, "It's Greek Week! This is the week the Pan-Hellenic Council gathers in the spirit of Brotherhood and Sisterhood to help those less fortunate than us."
Vicki leads you to the balloons and banners where three pretty Asian girls sit unenthusiastically behind a table. Vicki introduces them as Cindy, Rose, and Genevieve.
Rose is Filipino girl with creamy caramel skin. The low scoop neck of her T-shirt accentuates her volumnious but perky rack, as does a posture that would make a Marine proud. She sits pencil straight with her her chin pointed down, causing her straight shoulder-length hair to drape over her face. She has to toss her lustrous mane over her shoulder before you can catch a glimpse of her big beautiful eyes and her bee-stung lips. Her pouty mouth appears perpetually parted for that sultry, breathy look. When she looks up at you, she looks seductive, innocent and wary all at the same time. Either way, it's sexy as hell.
Cindy actually looks half-Asian. Wisps of brown hair form a single slender curl that adorns either side of her face, along with big hoop earrings. The rest of her hair is bunched up with a scrunchy. She's wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the letters "Alpha Chi". It's about four sizes too big, but still can't hide the huge breasts warping the Greek symbols printed across her chest. Her shapely legs, shod in ass-kicker Docs, are crossed and propped up on the table. And as far as you can tell, that's all she's wearing. The sweatshirt functions as a sort of microdress, just barely. You think she'd look better if she smiled more, wore less eye makeup, and stopped chewing at the cuff of her sleeve. But that's just nitpicking because if you had the choice you'd have her legs wrapped around you seven days a week.
Genevieve has the prettiest face of the bunch, with high, delicate cheekbones, flawless ivory skin, and Cupid's bow lips. But either she looks like a total bitch. Her finely arched eyebrows scowl at you while her eyes fix on you with an intense stare, and she doesn't smile at all. She looks dressed for a Saturday night instead of a Sunday morning, with a strapless dress, heels that strap up halfway up her calf, shiny dangling earrings, and bracelets to match. To top it all off, she wears a plain black choker. Her limbs are long and shapely, like a model.
Even though no one asks, you introduce yourself as . You stand there awkwardly for a bit while Genevieve eyes you coldly. The other girls turn their heads expectantly towards Genevieve, but after a few seconds of silence, Vicki chimes in:
"The Pan-Hellenic council has adopted the South City orphanage as our charity cause this year. Each fraternity and sorority will donate what it can to the poor children who have lost their parents. We, the proud sisterhood of Alpha Chi, are holding a bake sale."
You notice for the first time that there are a few lonely cupcakes sitting on the table. Hrm, some bake sale, you think to yourself.
Rose continues, "In addition, according to Pan-Hellenic tradition, the house that brings in the least money pays the penalty of servitude to the other houses for the rest of the year.
"Won't you help Alpha Chi help others? Please take your time to browse our selection."
Suddenly, your memory comes back like a freight train crashing through your hangover. You remember now: Alpha Chi is the Asian sorority that lost the Greek Week competition last year. The stuff they had to do was even more humiliating than usual. You even think you remember Genevieve's picture form the school newspaper. She was the girl who got arrested by campus police for "simulating sodomy" in public. At least, the newspaper reported it as simulated. The rumors around frat row say otherwise.
Poor girls, no wonder they're so pissy. You begin to feel sorry for them. Oh, and the orphans too. So you take a swig of your orange juice as you peruse the selection.
A cupcake with vanilla frosting and sprinkles bears a price tag of $100.
You almost choke, until you see that the chocolate cupcake next to it sells for $500.
The next item for sale isn't even a real baked good, but Ho-hos or Twinkies or something. Two of those little cake logs with the fruit swirls in it, still in the plastic package. And it's priced at $1000!
And all the way to the right, far from the other three cupcakes, a plain old yellow cupcake has a tag that says $5000. As far as you can tell, the only thing that make special about it is that it has a cherry on top.
"What the hell?!" you blurt out incredulously. "Why are these cupcakes so expensive? No wonder you guys lost last year!"
Genevieve scowls even more at your last comment, but Cindy just smirks and says, "Why don't you buy one and find out?" She uncrosses and recrosses her legs, a la Basic Instinct. You're pretty sure she was wearing black underwear... right?
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