[Low C Sharp]

I was curled in my bed, feeling like I had a bad case of the flu, until the sky started to lighten. I'd probably been lying there miserable for a good six hours. Then I heard footsteps by the elevator, and the hallway exploded with frantic screaming and pounding on my door. I jumped to the door in my pajamas and there were the Jane Lanes, shoving a sweatshirt and a pair of CD's at me before bursting into deafening song that ended, "Congratulations, Low C Sharp, you're a new Jane Lane!" Before I could even process what was going on, they yelled, "Put your shoes on! You're coming with us!"

Since our initiation is not secret (and I'm not worried that there are many future Bromwell auditionees on this board), I can tell you that after running around and singing at a bunch of special spots on campus, we walked out onto the footbridge over the river -- and Lovely Brunette opened her backpack and handed each of the new members our favorite flavor of ice cream! That's why we'd been asked about it all through the process. We passed the ice cream around and shared the newbies' favorite flavors, in our Jane Lane sweatshirts, while we watched the sun come up over the water.

You know what the amazing thing is? I thought I knew at the time that sunrise together was a happy ending. But the truth is, if I'd had any idea of what a happy beginning it was going to be, and how much those people would mean to me -- forever -- I would have been too nervous at final night to make a sound!

Postscript:

Sadly, Marc wasn't there on the bridge that night. But at the next round of auditions, I got him to try again, and he got in and later became the director, as well as my best friend in college.

God bless her to this day, Judith did indeed prefer the Trents, where she was a much better fit.

Courtney, who skipped out on the last night with the Jane Lanes, did not get into the Trents; Judith was the only woman they took that fall. However, she got in at the end of the year and sang with them for three years.

Socially Freaky Girl came back and auditioned again. That should really go in the psycho/stalker PNMs thread!

The group that shared ice cream on the bridge that night recently reunited to perform at Lovely Brunette's wedding.

The Trents were at the crest of a great few years, but how the mighty fell; they had a bad retention problem, and for the last five years, the Jane Lanes have been the strongest coed group on campus.

As for the Quinns...I'll save that for a thread on dirty rush!
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