Things get a little crazy for the pledge class and it makes Caitlin a bit stressed. Just what is she going to do in order to deal with the stress?

Sorority Boy
Chapter 16
 
By poetheather
 

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Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. There should be no way that these characters are like anyone else, but if that isn’t the case, it has definitely been unintentional. Also, if you happen to find that your life is represented in these pages, I’ll be impressed.

 
 
The whole pledge class knew something was up when we arrived, and that it was probably very wrong, when we got to the Chapter Room that Friday evening. First off, there were more girls there than normal and second, they all seemed to have evil glints in their eyes. That was pretty much a dead give away.

Nadia waited for all of us to be seated before she began. “Ladies, this is the work weekend. You will be working in the house and such. Saturday night, you get to find out who your big sisters are and you will be finished Sunday afternoon. There might be some uncomfortable situations for you but if you persevere through something we have all done, you are a lot closer to being a full Sister of this House.”

“Just so you are all aware, you will need to… dress up a bit for this. Don’t worry, no one will see you dressed in the various outfits except for your fellow Sisters. No men and no strangers.” I rolled my eyes at the no men line. Was it so easy to forget? “If you are not okay with this you can leave at anytime. This is just some harmless fun and that’s it. There is tradition in some of this, which is why we do this. So any questions?”

We all looked at each other and nodded in agreement. We were all sure that we could do this. I had been worried that Thuriya might have issues, but apparently, that wasn’t a problem.

Nadia smiled again. “Good. Now you have one hour to grab the things you will need for the weekend, which includes those of you who live here. Get your stuff and hurry back. The hour starts… now.”

She started a stopwatch and the group of us bolted out of the room, scattering in different directions. I headed upstairs and grabbed a bag. What the hell would I need? I grabbed a change of clothes and enough underwear for the weekend. I grabbed my toiletries and stuff, surveying everything. I had everything I might need, to the best of my knowledge. I sighed and headed back downstairs with my bag. I was surprised to see Alley already there. I had figured Dawn might beat me, since she was in the House as was Megan, but Alley actually didn’t live near enough to do this. How in the hell?

When she saw the confused look on my face, she just smirked at me, clearly amused. “I always have a change of clothes for the weekend in my car. After I spent a few weekends away unexpectedly without a change, I learned. Since then I am always ready for crazy weekends.”

“That makes sense.” I replied. She really seemed on top of things.

Dawn and Megan walked in together with their bags, chatting about her new My Little Pony fic that she was writing. Both had changed into more comfortable clothes than they were wearing earlier, as if they were preparing to work. I blinked a few times and sighed, looking down at what I was wearing. “I’ll be right back.”

I hustled upstairs. I wanted to get out of this skirt and into something comfortable like Dawn and Megan were wearing. As I got back into my room and made a beeline for my dresser, Alison came in with her bag in hand. My response was very dignified. “EEeeeppp!”

Alison rolled her eyes at that. “Please. Just change will you. I certainly don’t want my dress to get ruined by cleaning the House, so I need to put on something more comfortable as well. Don’t get your panties in twist.”

I tired to stammer something in response, but words failed as she pulled her dress over her head, just leaving the black and red Merry Widow, stockings and G-string she had on underneath. “I… uh… I… uhm… I…”

“Honestly Caitlin, you have seen a naked woman before.” chided Alison. She turned her back to me and began changing into some more comfortable underwear. I shook my head to clear it, especially the sight of the rose tattoo on her ass. After regaining partial sanity, I turned away myself and got dressed. I didn’t need to change my underwear, as I was good and I already had on my vagina. This was as good as I got at this point. I wasn’t even remotely what you would call sexy.

Once we had finished changing, the two of us headed down together, Alison chuckling at my discomfort. She was wearing a black tank top with a silkscreen of a green heart with red flames and jeans that had chains and belts all over them. In other words, she basically looked good, as usual. I was dressed in comfortable jeans and a black t-shirt that said Princess on it in frilly writing. Becca had bought it for me and giggled anytime I wore it around her. I kind of liked it, as it had grown on me. Is it wrong that I found it cute?

A few others had gotten there while we were changing and all of us were just waiting for Holly and Amy. Nadia came back in with her stopwatch adding to the tension, as she just stood there quietly, looking at the ticking watch. I was wondering if the two would get kicked out if they went over the hour, as it had to be close at this point. I could tell that the others were a bit nervous over this as well. We really didn’t want to loose either of them.

Finally Amy came through the doors, breathing hard like she had been running and Holly followed along behind her, carrying both of their bags in one hand. They made it with a few minutes to spare, and we all sighed in relief. Nadia seemed really pleased that everyone made it back in time. “Okay… here’s the deal. Tonight we are going to clean the house for a party that we are having tomorrow for all of the Sisters and any Alumni that wish to show. Tomorrow you are all going to prepare appetizers, decorate and basically get everything ready for the party. When the party starts you will serve the appetizers and drinks, dressed in Maid costumes. Towards the end of that party, you will find out who your Big Sisters are. After that… well, we’ll let you know.”

I closed my eyes and sighed. We had to wear a fricking maid’s outfit?! Man, they really were screwing me. Not that I was too stressed over it at this point but it was still a bit irritating. However, she had mentioned that this was a tradition thing, so maybe it wasn’t that bad?

“Now, let’s break you into your cleaning teams and get to work. We have a lot to do and we want to get it done as fast as possible.”

I got stuck with dusting, which I had never been a fan of. They gave me a can of some sort of furniture polish as well as a few cleaning rags and set me loose to take care of all the wood in the place. Thankfully, it was mostly the first floor that I had to worry about in all of this or I would never be finished. I guess it could be worse. I worked by myself as other girls were polishing silver, sweeping and mopping, vacuuming, cleaning windows and the like. Holly was actually using her repelling gear to clean all the exterior windows by hand. It was certainly a sight to see and she was having a great time bouncing all around the building.

Dinner was pizza, with a large number of different types of pizza brought in from one of the specialty places that was in town. I was a lot hungrier than I had thought and I ate several pieces of the Chicken Alfredo Pesto and the Vegetarian with extra cheese. They had even gotten several pizzas that Thuriya and Esperanza could eat, which were mostly the same ones I was eating.

We sat around and laughed about things, mostly funny stories about classes or people we met on campus so far this semester. Dawn had lots thanks to the Art department. There were even a few funny dating stories that really had the other girls almost falling to the floor they were laughing so hard. It was nice, relaxing and I think we were getting closer together as a group. They were definitely becoming my sisters, weird as that was to admit. I knew that I could trust these women with almost everything in my life and they would be there for me. It was strange, as I had never had any friends like this with the exception of Becca. I was still unsure of how they would take the reveal that I was a guy by birth.

It was a bit odd and that was actually worrying me more and more. I felt like I was lying to them all, like I was hiding some horrible secret from all of them. I hated feeling dishonest over this issue, but what recourse did I have? I liked all of these women and did not want to hurt them in any way. What needed to happen was for me to come clean with them and see how things turned out. I really needed to talk to Merri and Nadia about this, to get their advice before I said anything.

Nadia looked up at the clock and then smiled, as if she had something else planned for all of us. “Okay, just to let you all know, you will be sleeping in the Chapter Room. There are some sleeping bags and stuff in there so you can all be comfortable while you sleep. Before you guys sleep though, we have some home movies to show you.”

This did get me intrigued. Home movies? Of what? I wasn’t getting paranoid because I trusted Nadia not to do that to me, to simply expose me. She wouldn’t tell anyone about my situation in this manner, I was sure of it. Nevertheless, I still was kind of confused as to exactly what kind of movies we were going to be watching. It seemed that the other girl’s interests had been perked as well. Looked like it was movie time for our pledge class.

“Okay. Time to change for bed. All your stuff is in the Chapter Room, so get in there change and we will start the movies soon.” said Nadia to everyone.

We all changed and no one was really shy about it either, except maybe for me and Amy. Holly asked Thuriya about it and she just chuckled, “Remember, I’m allowed to undress and stuff in a woman’s presence. The party would have been more difficult if I hadn’t been able to.”

Holly blushed, embarrassed that she had forgotten something so obvious and that had been already mentioned. Thankfully, everyone was so busy changing that they never took a close look at me. Granted Alley was talking to me and sort of blocking everyone else, which was a great help. Soon we were all dressed in our pjs and getting ready to watch the movie. Nadia came in with a DVD case; Gwen was carrying bowls of popcorn.

The popcorn was soon distributed and Nadia started talking. “I hope you all enjoy this. Each semester, National sends us these videos to show tonight. Pledge classes across the US are watching their version of this tape tonight, each time zone doing it as a group. So enjoy.”

With that, she pushed play on the remote and the film started. Before I could catch her attention a middle aged woman came onto the screen and began talking. “Hello. My name is Elaine Cressley and I am the organizational head of our Sorority. By now you should all be familiar with our history, leadership and such. This is good. They are important bits of information that help make our House what it is today and will shape it into tomorrow. This is not what I am going to talk about.”

“What I am going to talk to you about however is what is most important to us all, Sisterhood. What makes this House work is the fact that people from divergent backgrounds, often from groups that would be slighted in the regular Sorority system, come together in the spirit of friendship to accomplish things, often great things. We are stronger together than we are apart.” Pictures of several famous members of the Sorority crossed the screen and it was an impressive collection of truly amazing ladies.

“You all should feel like you can become friends with each other, people who can accept everything about each other no matter how different it is and will support each other in all things. Sisters can have the closest of bonds or the worst of bonds. You have the chance to become family to each other and to the other women of your House. The choice is yours to make. This Sorority becomes what you make of it.

“In two weeks time, if you are still here, you will become a Sister of this House and of this Sorority. You will gain Sisters throughout this country and in several different countries as well. You will become a part of something larger, an organization dedicated to making sure all people can reach their dreams. But enough talk from me. Enjoy these videos. They are of your Sisters to be, from your House. Enjoy and good bye. I hope you become my Sister.”

Music started and up came video of a number of the girl’s from the spring pledge class during their work weekend. They were laughing and having a great time, looking cute in their maid outfits. Then it went back and showed each class of the House back farther and farther, into the eighties. It was awesome and inspiring. Watching all those other girls doing the same things we would be doing, dressing the same way, and having a great time. This would be me if I made it. I wanted this. I really did.

I wanted to talk to everyone, to share who I really was and let things fall as they may. If it was too much of a problem, I would leave, but I couldn’t do this anymore. I got Nadia’s attention and she said, “Caitlin, could you give me a hand with something. We’ll be right back. Gwen, could you start the next DVD?”

Gwen nodded as we walked out of the Chapter Room. I waved Meredith over as well. We were standing in the hall and I took a deep breath to slow down my furiously beating heart. “I want to tell them.”

“What? Now?” said Nadia, surprised by what I was saying.

“Nadia, I can’t lie to them anymore. If I am going to be a sister to these women I have to tell them the truth.”

“Caitlin, are you sure you want to do this? Once you say this it cannot be unsaid.” Meredith looked worried for me.

I nodded. “I am sure or at least as sure as I can be. I have to do this.”

Nadia and Meredith were looking at each other, and I could tell by the subtle body movements that they were talking without words. They both shrugged and looked at me. Nadia smiled tightly. “Okay. If this is what you want.”

“I do. And if it causes too much trouble I will leave. I just can’t do this anymore.” It wasn’t fair to be hiding his from them, especially when we were at the major bonding event of our pledge experience.

Nadia nodded. “Let’s do this.”

We walked back into the room and Gwen could tell that things were serious. I was holding Meredith’s hand and my heart was beating loudly in my ears. Gwen stopped the video and everyone in the room turned to face me. It scared the hell out of me.

“Uhm… everyone, I have something I need to tell you.” This got Alison’s attention and I could see the worry on her face as well as the surprise. She gave me a smile of support which really helped.

“I have loved being with you all and getting to know you, but I wanted to let you know something.”

In the pause where I was gathering my strength to speak Holly spoke up. “You’re a lesbian. We know that already Caitlin.”

“Uhm… Holly, that’s not it.”

“Than what?” she asked from where she was sitting.

“I… I’m a guy.”