She arrived just as Margot kicked open the door. Inside, there was no purple flag. Only a dozen Theta Tau seniors, armed with supersoakers filled with neon green slime. The Psi Deltas walked right into an ambush.
She did the only thing she could. She tied the flag around her waist like a cape, climbed onto the sill, and jumped into the hedge maze below.
At Margot’s signal, the two dozen Psi Deltas scattered into the pre-dawn fog. Chloe was assigned to “Observation,” which turned out to be crouching behind a recycling bin near the Theta house, radio pressed to her ear.
Then she turned and vanished into the fog. Sorority Wars
Silence. Then chaos. Psi Deltas tackled Chloe in a muddy, slimy hug. Thetas threw their supersoakers to the ground in disbelief.
Chloe looked out the tiny attic window. The ground was a three-story drop. Below, the war raged on—sisters screaming, slime flying, dignity evaporating.
“Flag captured by Psi Delta rookie,” one announced. “Game over.” She arrived just as Margot kicked open the door
Margot, covered in green slime, stared. Lena, emerging from the boathouse with a towel, stopped mid-wipe. The referees—three exhausted RAs—raised their binoculars.
“I know where I’m going,” Chloe lied.
Lena walked over, wiped a smear of slime from Chloe’s cheek, and smiled—the real smile, not the smirk. The Psi Deltas walked right into an ambush
And for the first time that morning, Chloe laughed. She’d come to Blackwood for a degree. But she’d found something better: a war she never knew she wanted to win, and an enemy who made it worth fighting.
Lena stepped closer. “No, you don’t. Because Sarah is my little cousin. And she’s been feeding your team fake intel for the last hour. The flag never left our attic.”
The bushes broke her fall. Branches scraped her arms. But she rolled out onto the main lawn, flag streaming behind her, just as the campus clock struck nine—the official end of the game.
“They’re moving the flag to the boathouse,” hissed a voice. It was Sarah, a sophomore who’d gone undercover as a “study buddy.” “Repeat: boathouse.”