Ok I'm really excited to finish my story.....and since it's already typed out, I'm going to try and finish posting it today
I went back to my apartment and watched TV with my roommate. I was so nervous all day, just waiting for my phone call. It was 6:30 and my phone hadn't rang yet, so I started to get ready to leave. Just as I had finished putting on my makeup, my phone rang. I felt my throat close before I even looked at the number. I picked up and it was my Pi Chi. I had been released. She told me I could still rush in the spring or wait again and go through next fall. She sounded really sad, and she tried her best to console me, but it just wasn't working. I hung up with her and immediately called my cousin. I was absolutely crushed, and she did her best to assure me that maybe now just wasn't my time. I talked to her for a little while longer before I decided to just take a shower and go to bed. I made a plan to go out of town on Bid Day so I wouldn't risk seeing the celebrations.
Emily ended up dropping out of recruitment. She said she just couldn't see herself in a sorority after all.
Laura ended up pledging
Atlanta Ballet. She told me she would take me to their parties and stuff so I could meet the girls and possibly pledge in the spring if they were going to do recruitment then.
Ashley dropped out as well because she wanted to focus on cheerleading. I found out within the week that the Pi Chi who helped me out when I got my cuts was an
Atlanta Ballet and the other was a
San Francisco Ballet.
School started the next week, and I threw myself into my school work. I studied all the time and hardly skipped class. I decided that if grades were the reason I was cut, I was not going to give them a chance to hold that against me next time. I went to a party at one of the fraternity houses that weekend and starting making friends there. I met a girl who was a new member of
American Ballet Theatre, we'll call her
Stephanie, and we spent the night talking. During the second week of classes, I noticed
Stephanie sitting across the room in my Music Appreciation class. I moved and sat next to her and we decided to be study partners. We started going to dinner together every week before class, and we hung out a lot. Through her, I met a lot of the new girls and I really grew to like them.
Stephanie and I spent a lot of time together and became really good friends. She kept me up to date on the things that
American Ballet Theatre was up too. I really started to like these girls, and I could definitely see myself with them behind the frills of recruitment.
In October, Stephanie told me that
ABT was definitely participating in Spring Recruitment. She really hoped I would come out because she really wanted me to be her sister.
Laura also told me that
Atlanta Ballet was doing recruitment as well, but they had less than 10 available spots. I knew they were highly sought after, and I didn't spend much time with them and the connection I felt at recruitment was gone. I went on Christmas Break and could not wait to go to
ABT's recruitment events. I went back to school the first week of January and within days of school starting, I was invited to join a Facebook group for girls interested in COB with
American Ballet Theatre. The Open Houses were scheduled before
Atlanta Ballet's, so I decided to just go to
ABT. I really liked the girls that I had met, and I just had this feeling that this was what was supposed to happen.
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