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4 Party Day
The next morning we got our invites bright and early. Since there were only 4 parties to attend, we had two hours to get ready for the first event. I went into my dorm room, shut the door, and eagerly tore open my invite list.
1. Ygritte
2. Arya
3. Catelyn
WHAT? Seriously? Tears immediately sprung into my eyes. No Jaime Lannister? No Daenerys? I wasn't going to get to be in a sorority with my high school friends. They had cut me. They didn't want me. What was wrong with me? I must be a huge loser when sororities absolutely packed with all my closest older friends from high school DIDN'T WANT ME.
Oh, it was ugly. I had myself a big ol' pity party right there in my dorm room. I was SO glad that my roommate had chosen not to rush and that I had it all to myself. I bawled. I threw myself on my twin bed and thought about dropping out. I wondered how I would face all the perfect princesses on my dorm floor who had mini-fridges and outfit-matching Pappagallo shoes and color-coordinated storage systems from The Container Store and were almost certainly going back to ALL THE HOUSES THAT HAD CUT ME!!
Then, after a period of time much longer than I care to admit, I sat up, stopped crying, wiped my eyes and considered my situation. I had gone from being a girl who hadn't even considered being in a sorority a month before, to a girl sobbing in her dorm room because things hadn't turned out like I'd hoped. I barely recognized myself at this point.
I did some thinking and decided to focus on the positive. Yes, I didn't get invited to the full four parties. Yes, I felt disappointed and - dare I say it? BETRAYED by those girls who I thought loved me from high school. But I had been invited back by two houses that I had really loved and truly connected with. And by another house that was just fine.
So I pulled myself together, put a cold cloth on my red, swollen eyes and started to get ready. I wasn't thrilled but I was ready to make the best of it. I kept thinking in my head about what I had done wrong, how I'd hoped to be sisters with 'Stephanie' at Daenerys and 'Gwen' at Jaime Lannister, how I'd hoped to get a chance to really get to know Bubbly Girl and more like her at Jon Snow. And then I stopped myself and tried to focus on what was good. I loved the girls at Arya and Catelyn. I'd had the very best time at their parties. I'd really felt like I connected. And... Ygritte had a pretty house...
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