Sweet Valley Universit #9: Sorority Scandal
Sweet Valley University #9: Sorority Scandal
I picked this one for the title. I mean, how can it not be awesome when it’s about a scandal at a sorority!? Also, the back mentions Lila. Lila and Bruce. That’s right, we find out how their relationship kinda sorta begins in this book. Like any good love story, there’s a plane crash involved!
Bruce is flying Lila over some “jagged” mountains. See, she hired a plane to fly her back to SVU but it needed repairs so Bruce offered to fly her. But he’s apparently very bad at it, because not only are they late (she has missed her sorority dinner) but he’s flying on empty. Ruh roh!
She reminds us that her husband, the Count, is dead. And for some reasons he’s had nightmares of a horrible plane crash ever since. ... And then it happens! Oops! That’s why you shouldn’t have nightmares about things.
Back at SVU, we’re supposed to care about whether Jessica can get back in Theta Alpha Theta’s good graces even though Lila and Bruce were just in a fiery plane crash! The sisters have agreed to give Jessica a “second chance” (she blew the first one with the running off and getting married thing) since her mother was a Theta. Isabella tells Jessica that Alison Quinn, the vice-president, doesn’t like Jessica and didn’t want her in the sorority. She just got out-voted. Izzy ominously tells Jess that Alison doesn’t like losing.
Elizabeth is also having problems. Of course they’re not plane crash related so I can’t muster up a whole lot of caring. See, she got a C on a paper! The first C in her life! Oh noes! It’s all because she’s been too busy making with Trusty Boyfriend Tom. (Not Todd.)
Then she hears a funny noise. There’s a creepy man in a wheelchair hovering nearby and when she gets back to her table, her scarf is gone! Double oh noes! What will she do without a scarf in Southern California!?
The creepy guy in the wheelchair is… no! Not Mike McAllery. It’s that other creepy guy, William White. He was arrested and put in a mental institution for trying to kill Liz. But he’s back, pretending to be a wheelchair-bound library employee. Oh, yeah, and that scarf? It’s his now.
Guess who’s helping William in his creepy stalking of Elizabeth? Celine Boudreaux. She is still sort of in love with him, which makes her crazier than he is.
Lila wakes up in pain. She’s just been in a plane crash after all. She sees Bruce is no longer in the driver’s seat and immediately thinks he’s been hurled out on impact and she will soon find his mangled corpse. She forces her way out of the wreckage and finds Bruce’s body lying in snow. (SVU Life Lesson: Never eat pink snow.)
Celine and creepy William meet in the creepy library and discuss their creepy plans. Seems people at the mental institution don’t know he’s missing. He’s going back and forth. The lack security there… explains a lot, actually. She thinks he’ll “reestablish” himself in the world and then they’ll date. He’s not a nice car, after all! Who cares if he’s crazy?
Billie’s mother calls and tells Billie her parents coming to visit. Small problem: Billie’s parents do not know Billie lives with Steven Wakefield. Steven suggests he go stay with Mike McAllery. Mike is the man Steven accidentally shot and crippled that time. But they’re pals now!
Liz meets with Professor Martin about her C. Seems he was just kidding about that! He’s changing her grade to an A. Then, he also shows her his autographed copy of Lord Byron. He wants her to work on a “special project” (dirty!) with him. He’d also like it if she’d call him George. None of this makes Liz at all uncomfortable. In fact, she thinks he’s the best professor at SVU! She definitely did not deserve that A…
Nina Harper has a minor tiff with boyfriend Bryan Nelson. Bryan runs the Black Student Union at SVU and he wants to have a march. Nina thinks they could get more attention for the march by having more people at the march and suggests they invite all SVU students to come, not just the black ones. Just because William White… and Peter Wilbourne… and all those Sigmas… and that creepy secret society are all racist doesn’t mean they all are! Bryan says no white people.
Tom thinks Professor “George” Martin and his special project with Liz are weird. You don’t say.
Lila freaks out when she sees Bruce’s body and she starts to run, until she hears something lumbering after her. It’s Bruce! He’s not dead, he was just passed out. Phew. Lila uses her designer dress as bandages for him. They talk and realize that no one will know they’re missing. I find that hard to believe. I miss Lila when she’s gone for a couple pages, let alone hours or days.
Meanwhile, Jessica is partying with the Sigmas and the Thetas. She notices Alexandra Rollins is getting pretty drunk. Apparently former Trusty Boyfriend Todd is a little hung up on Liz still. Everyone else seems to be having a grand old time, despite the fact that their friends Bruce and Lila are missing. Isabella makes me like her a little bit by asking Jessica where Lila is. See! She is missed!
Winston has a comedic accident while rollerblading. We’re lucky Winston is here to fall down for our amusement. He breaks his arm. Then he fights with Denise when all the girls in his hall pay too much attention to him. It’s a dull storyline so I’m going to stop mentioning it.
Lila wakes up in Bruce’s arms. (See? Budding relationship?) They remember the radio and discover it’s broken. That would have been the first thing I checked. They’re not sure if they should stay with the wreckage and hope to be discovered or attempt to walk down the mountain. Lila thinks walk, because she’s seen people do it in movies (no, really. That’s here reason.). So they walk.
Alison calls Jessica to the Theta house early in the morning. Jessica thinks getting up early is her punishment. Boy, is she wrong. Alison tells Jessica that she must steal something for the Thetas in order to re-pledge. And it’s… Professor Martin’s Byron book! Everyone acts like this is impossible. But I think it’d be more difficult if they didn’t pick something that she could easily get by pretending to be Liz.
Tom and Liz make out. Tom thinks he’d like to go “further.” But he would never make her do something she’d feel uncomfortable about. He thinks guys like that are jerks. What he means is: Todd is a jerk.
Bruce and Lila get caught in an avalanche. And the whole scene lasts for about a page. That’s it! Bruce and Lila and their avalanche get no respect.
Billie freaks out because her parents arrive a few hours early. We’re supposed to care even though Bruce and Lila were just in an avalanche!! She has to hide all of Steven’s stuff, which is something she probably should’ve done earlier anyway. Steven has to hide in the closet. The indignity.
Then later, Bruce digs Lila out from under the snow. He apologizes for nearly killing her and all. She is shocked Bruce Patman has the capacity to apologize and act like a human person.
Jessica attempts to steal the damn book and is caught by campus security.
Nina tries to break up with Bryan over their ideological differences. But it’s hard because he’s so hot!
Jessica calls Elizabeth to bail her out of fake-college, rent-a-cop jail. They handcuffed Jessica and she is naturally worried someone saw her. Liz assures them she will post bail. Do most campus cops have the authority to keep someone imprisoned? I feel like my campus cops just busted people for having alcohol.
Lila makes a fire, over which she and Bruce argue about who left who for dead back at the crash site. They each think about how good looking the other is. And finally Bruce tells Lila he’s glad she’s not dead. Aren’t we all?
Liz goes to Professor Martin to ask him to not press charges against Jessica. She ends up agreeing to work nights with him on the project and… not mentioning anything about Jessica. Good job, Liz.
Alison tells Jessica she was stupid to get caught. Now all the Thetas have been implicated. So to “protect the sorority” they’re going to pretend like they don’t know her. Jessica angrily wonders where Lila is because she wants Lila to help her. I think she should tell the stupid sorority to shove it up their (collective) arse and rat them out to the campus cops. But instead, Jessica goes to the beach with a guy.
Bruce and Lila have a nice moment of liking each other. Then it’s ruined when Bruce starts leading with his trusty compass, only to bring them right back to the plane crash site. Lila berates him for being really stupid. And then Bruce takes off alone.
After another meeting with Professor Martin (in which he reads love poems to Liz and she feels like a “valued colleague”), Liz meets with Jessica and Tom at a coffee house. Jessica actually thinks, “It would feel good to dump her problems onto her sister.” And she is pissed that Tom is there. That’s love right there. Liz insists she’s tried “everything” with Professor Martin, which is crap. Jessica insists she’s not going to turn on the Thetas and she still wants to be in the sorority. I think they’re both nuts.
Speaking of nuts! Celine meets William White at some restaurant that’s several miles from Sweet Valley. She thinks it’s a date. He tells her he plans to drive Liz crazy. Like literally, since she had him institutionalized. I guess Celine finds this romantic because she’s pleased with their “date.”
Jessica thinks Professor Martin would really be a jerk to press charges against her because she’s a student. I don’t understand. If someone stole my shit, I wouldn’t care who it was. Anyway, Jess is shocked-shocked!-to discover he does intend to press charges and she could go to prison. No kidding! Prison for stealing! That’s new right?
Professor Martin tells Liz that an “anonymous” caller tipped off security that Jessica would steal the book. Then he gets grabby with Liz. He touches her back and her shoulder! Not her back and her shoulder! She thinks he’s a jerk! She’s very slow on the uptake.
Lila is understandably pissed Bruce left her. She’s frightened of the animals, particularly the howling wolves. She falls asleep only to wake up and find a wolf has taken her food. Better he eats her food than her, I guess. But still, tough break.
Liz and Jess have a fight about the Thetas and Jess going to jail. Liz storms off with intentions of bringing the Thetas down. Jess hears about Professor Martin’s attempted “molestation” and goes off with intentions of bringing him down.
Bruce wanders the mountain alone. He tries to catch a rabbit for food but is not exactly the great white hunter. He’s mad at Lila for being a bitch to him, but he feels guilty that she’s alone now. He thinks what a total fuck up he is and generally hates himself.
Steven and Billie are really horrible liars about the not-living together thing. It’s sad really. Steven sees some of “his” aftershave in the bathroom and thinks he has to get rid of it. But it’s actually Billie’s father’s aftershave and he’s pissed Steven is “stealing” it. Then Billie breaks down and tells them she and Steven are living together. …And it’s not a surprise to their parents because, really, they were horrible liars and her parents are not blind and/or deaf.
Isabella invites Jessica to brunch at the Theta house. Alison sees her and flips out, shouting that Jessica has no class. That she ran “wild” last semester with a “motorcycle freak” (wasn’t it a Corvette?) and that she’s brought scandal to the sorority. None of Jessica’s Theta “friends” say anything to challenge Alison. So much for sisterhood.
William wants Celine to drop off a rose, knotted in the stolen scarf, at Liz’s desk at the library when she’s not looking. Celine is upset about this. But not because her “boyfriend” is crazy and still stalking some other woman, oh no. She’s pissed because Liz gets a rose and she didn’t. I’m not making this up people!
In the library, Liz goes to Isabella for help with Jessica’s case. She asks who put Jessica up to the theft and Isabella readily admits it was Alison. Liz then tells Isabella someone called security that night, and Isabella admits that also had to be Alison. She agrees to tell all of this to security to help save Jess. Even though it means turning on the Thetas. I guess Jess has one “sister.”
Jessica goes to see Professor Martin dressed as Elizabeth. She asks him if it’s okay for teachers and students to date. (Funny how often Jessica finds herself in these situations.) He says it’d be okay for them to date and then sort of mauls her.
Bruce continues his mountain pity party, by deciding since Lila might be dead, he might as well die too. And he lies down to die and then thinks he would know if she were dead. (Through some magical, psychic connection of future lovers, no doubt.) He thinks he’s going to find Lila and survive.
Celine drops the creepy rose of creepy stalkers off at Liz’s desk. She’s unhappy about it. She thinks it might, possibly, be a little inconvenient to date a guy in a mental institution. Ya think? She decides she’ll find out his whole plan, and, if he’s still hung up on Elizabeth, she’ll turn him in herself. Well naturally you wouldn’t turn in a crazed, escapee mental patient if he was hung up on you.
Liz finds the rose and freaks out. William watches from the stacks and is pleased with himself. The one thing he’s worried about is if Liz will find out Celine was involved and get the wrong idea about the two of them. Yeah. You’re okay threatening a girl and trying to kill her, but god forbid she think you’re dating that southern skank.
We cut to Jessica in mid-maul. She manages to get away from Professor Martin. Then she whips out her trusty tape recorder and says if he doesn’t drop the charges against her and stop harassing Liz, she will play the tape over the campus loudspeakers. Okay that was kind of awesome. Then she runs from the office. The professor tries to run after her, but Jessica is rescued by a group of kindly chemistry professors, who offer to escort her out.
Liz goes to the security people to pump them for information. The guy at the desk is rude at first but then, when she mentions she’s doing a story for TV, he tells her everything. People love to be on TV! The phone call alerting them to the potential theft came in on Monday night and that it was from Theta house. That caller ID is a wonderful invention, no?
Liz tells Tom about Professor Martin (but not about the creepy rose) and sort of apologizes for blowing him off. Tom and Liz make out as they usually do. Then Jessica shows up and tells Liz that Martin is dropping the charges. Liz wants Jessica to report Professor Martin’s behavior, especially now that they have the tape for proof, but Jessica says, Nah, we had a deal. But she’s going to keep the tape as insurance.
Liz then tells Jessica what she found out from security. Jessica vows revenge against Alison. … But she still wants to be a Theta, of course!
Nina convinces Liz to come to the BSU meeting. Liz tells them she wants to help their cause and march or whatever. And eventually all the black students, including Bryan, agree that white people can march for their rights too.
Lila is hallucinating. She wishes her count were alive. She thinks everything would be all right then. She also wishes Bruce hadn’t left her. Then she hears a wolf howl. …And that’s the end. Grr.
Oh and William left some other presents for Liz at the library. Nina saw them. Find out more about his craziness in the next book!
Aren't there just all kinds of fun ways to be stalked/harassed/arrested/duped/injured/nearly killed in college?
I picked this one for the title. I mean, how can it not be awesome when it’s about a scandal at a sorority!? Also, the back mentions Lila. Lila and Bruce. That’s right, we find out how their relationship kinda sorta begins in this book. Like any good love story, there’s a plane crash involved!
Bruce is flying Lila over some “jagged” mountains. See, she hired a plane to fly her back to SVU but it needed repairs so Bruce offered to fly her. But he’s apparently very bad at it, because not only are they late (she has missed her sorority dinner) but he’s flying on empty. Ruh roh!
She reminds us that her husband, the Count, is dead. And for some reasons he’s had nightmares of a horrible plane crash ever since. ... And then it happens! Oops! That’s why you shouldn’t have nightmares about things.
Back at SVU, we’re supposed to care about whether Jessica can get back in Theta Alpha Theta’s good graces even though Lila and Bruce were just in a fiery plane crash! The sisters have agreed to give Jessica a “second chance” (she blew the first one with the running off and getting married thing) since her mother was a Theta. Isabella tells Jessica that Alison Quinn, the vice-president, doesn’t like Jessica and didn’t want her in the sorority. She just got out-voted. Izzy ominously tells Jess that Alison doesn’t like losing.
Elizabeth is also having problems. Of course they’re not plane crash related so I can’t muster up a whole lot of caring. See, she got a C on a paper! The first C in her life! Oh noes! It’s all because she’s been too busy making with Trusty Boyfriend Tom. (Not Todd.)
Then she hears a funny noise. There’s a creepy man in a wheelchair hovering nearby and when she gets back to her table, her scarf is gone! Double oh noes! What will she do without a scarf in Southern California!?
The creepy guy in the wheelchair is… no! Not Mike McAllery. It’s that other creepy guy, William White. He was arrested and put in a mental institution for trying to kill Liz. But he’s back, pretending to be a wheelchair-bound library employee. Oh, yeah, and that scarf? It’s his now.
Guess who’s helping William in his creepy stalking of Elizabeth? Celine Boudreaux. She is still sort of in love with him, which makes her crazier than he is.
Lila wakes up in pain. She’s just been in a plane crash after all. She sees Bruce is no longer in the driver’s seat and immediately thinks he’s been hurled out on impact and she will soon find his mangled corpse. She forces her way out of the wreckage and finds Bruce’s body lying in snow. (SVU Life Lesson: Never eat pink snow.)
Celine and creepy William meet in the creepy library and discuss their creepy plans. Seems people at the mental institution don’t know he’s missing. He’s going back and forth. The lack security there… explains a lot, actually. She thinks he’ll “reestablish” himself in the world and then they’ll date. He’s not a nice car, after all! Who cares if he’s crazy?
Billie’s mother calls and tells Billie her parents coming to visit. Small problem: Billie’s parents do not know Billie lives with Steven Wakefield. Steven suggests he go stay with Mike McAllery. Mike is the man Steven accidentally shot and crippled that time. But they’re pals now!
Liz meets with Professor Martin about her C. Seems he was just kidding about that! He’s changing her grade to an A. Then, he also shows her his autographed copy of Lord Byron. He wants her to work on a “special project” (dirty!) with him. He’d also like it if she’d call him George. None of this makes Liz at all uncomfortable. In fact, she thinks he’s the best professor at SVU! She definitely did not deserve that A…
Nina Harper has a minor tiff with boyfriend Bryan Nelson. Bryan runs the Black Student Union at SVU and he wants to have a march. Nina thinks they could get more attention for the march by having more people at the march and suggests they invite all SVU students to come, not just the black ones. Just because William White… and Peter Wilbourne… and all those Sigmas… and that creepy secret society are all racist doesn’t mean they all are! Bryan says no white people.
Tom thinks Professor “George” Martin and his special project with Liz are weird. You don’t say.
Lila freaks out when she sees Bruce’s body and she starts to run, until she hears something lumbering after her. It’s Bruce! He’s not dead, he was just passed out. Phew. Lila uses her designer dress as bandages for him. They talk and realize that no one will know they’re missing. I find that hard to believe. I miss Lila when she’s gone for a couple pages, let alone hours or days.
Meanwhile, Jessica is partying with the Sigmas and the Thetas. She notices Alexandra Rollins is getting pretty drunk. Apparently former Trusty Boyfriend Todd is a little hung up on Liz still. Everyone else seems to be having a grand old time, despite the fact that their friends Bruce and Lila are missing. Isabella makes me like her a little bit by asking Jessica where Lila is. See! She is missed!
Winston has a comedic accident while rollerblading. We’re lucky Winston is here to fall down for our amusement. He breaks his arm. Then he fights with Denise when all the girls in his hall pay too much attention to him. It’s a dull storyline so I’m going to stop mentioning it.
Lila wakes up in Bruce’s arms. (See? Budding relationship?) They remember the radio and discover it’s broken. That would have been the first thing I checked. They’re not sure if they should stay with the wreckage and hope to be discovered or attempt to walk down the mountain. Lila thinks walk, because she’s seen people do it in movies (no, really. That’s here reason.). So they walk.
Alison calls Jessica to the Theta house early in the morning. Jessica thinks getting up early is her punishment. Boy, is she wrong. Alison tells Jessica that she must steal something for the Thetas in order to re-pledge. And it’s… Professor Martin’s Byron book! Everyone acts like this is impossible. But I think it’d be more difficult if they didn’t pick something that she could easily get by pretending to be Liz.
Tom and Liz make out. Tom thinks he’d like to go “further.” But he would never make her do something she’d feel uncomfortable about. He thinks guys like that are jerks. What he means is: Todd is a jerk.
Bruce and Lila get caught in an avalanche. And the whole scene lasts for about a page. That’s it! Bruce and Lila and their avalanche get no respect.
Billie freaks out because her parents arrive a few hours early. We’re supposed to care even though Bruce and Lila were just in an avalanche!! She has to hide all of Steven’s stuff, which is something she probably should’ve done earlier anyway. Steven has to hide in the closet. The indignity.
Then later, Bruce digs Lila out from under the snow. He apologizes for nearly killing her and all. She is shocked Bruce Patman has the capacity to apologize and act like a human person.
Jessica attempts to steal the damn book and is caught by campus security.
Nina tries to break up with Bryan over their ideological differences. But it’s hard because he’s so hot!
Jessica calls Elizabeth to bail her out of fake-college, rent-a-cop jail. They handcuffed Jessica and she is naturally worried someone saw her. Liz assures them she will post bail. Do most campus cops have the authority to keep someone imprisoned? I feel like my campus cops just busted people for having alcohol.
Lila makes a fire, over which she and Bruce argue about who left who for dead back at the crash site. They each think about how good looking the other is. And finally Bruce tells Lila he’s glad she’s not dead. Aren’t we all?
Liz goes to Professor Martin to ask him to not press charges against Jessica. She ends up agreeing to work nights with him on the project and… not mentioning anything about Jessica. Good job, Liz.
Alison tells Jessica she was stupid to get caught. Now all the Thetas have been implicated. So to “protect the sorority” they’re going to pretend like they don’t know her. Jessica angrily wonders where Lila is because she wants Lila to help her. I think she should tell the stupid sorority to shove it up their (collective) arse and rat them out to the campus cops. But instead, Jessica goes to the beach with a guy.
Bruce and Lila have a nice moment of liking each other. Then it’s ruined when Bruce starts leading with his trusty compass, only to bring them right back to the plane crash site. Lila berates him for being really stupid. And then Bruce takes off alone.
After another meeting with Professor Martin (in which he reads love poems to Liz and she feels like a “valued colleague”), Liz meets with Jessica and Tom at a coffee house. Jessica actually thinks, “It would feel good to dump her problems onto her sister.” And she is pissed that Tom is there. That’s love right there. Liz insists she’s tried “everything” with Professor Martin, which is crap. Jessica insists she’s not going to turn on the Thetas and she still wants to be in the sorority. I think they’re both nuts.
Speaking of nuts! Celine meets William White at some restaurant that’s several miles from Sweet Valley. She thinks it’s a date. He tells her he plans to drive Liz crazy. Like literally, since she had him institutionalized. I guess Celine finds this romantic because she’s pleased with their “date.”
Jessica thinks Professor Martin would really be a jerk to press charges against her because she’s a student. I don’t understand. If someone stole my shit, I wouldn’t care who it was. Anyway, Jess is shocked-shocked!-to discover he does intend to press charges and she could go to prison. No kidding! Prison for stealing! That’s new right?
Professor Martin tells Liz that an “anonymous” caller tipped off security that Jessica would steal the book. Then he gets grabby with Liz. He touches her back and her shoulder! Not her back and her shoulder! She thinks he’s a jerk! She’s very slow on the uptake.
Lila is understandably pissed Bruce left her. She’s frightened of the animals, particularly the howling wolves. She falls asleep only to wake up and find a wolf has taken her food. Better he eats her food than her, I guess. But still, tough break.
Liz and Jess have a fight about the Thetas and Jess going to jail. Liz storms off with intentions of bringing the Thetas down. Jess hears about Professor Martin’s attempted “molestation” and goes off with intentions of bringing him down.
Bruce wanders the mountain alone. He tries to catch a rabbit for food but is not exactly the great white hunter. He’s mad at Lila for being a bitch to him, but he feels guilty that she’s alone now. He thinks what a total fuck up he is and generally hates himself.
Steven and Billie are really horrible liars about the not-living together thing. It’s sad really. Steven sees some of “his” aftershave in the bathroom and thinks he has to get rid of it. But it’s actually Billie’s father’s aftershave and he’s pissed Steven is “stealing” it. Then Billie breaks down and tells them she and Steven are living together. …And it’s not a surprise to their parents because, really, they were horrible liars and her parents are not blind and/or deaf.
Isabella invites Jessica to brunch at the Theta house. Alison sees her and flips out, shouting that Jessica has no class. That she ran “wild” last semester with a “motorcycle freak” (wasn’t it a Corvette?) and that she’s brought scandal to the sorority. None of Jessica’s Theta “friends” say anything to challenge Alison. So much for sisterhood.
William wants Celine to drop off a rose, knotted in the stolen scarf, at Liz’s desk at the library when she’s not looking. Celine is upset about this. But not because her “boyfriend” is crazy and still stalking some other woman, oh no. She’s pissed because Liz gets a rose and she didn’t. I’m not making this up people!
In the library, Liz goes to Isabella for help with Jessica’s case. She asks who put Jessica up to the theft and Isabella readily admits it was Alison. Liz then tells Isabella someone called security that night, and Isabella admits that also had to be Alison. She agrees to tell all of this to security to help save Jess. Even though it means turning on the Thetas. I guess Jess has one “sister.”
Jessica goes to see Professor Martin dressed as Elizabeth. She asks him if it’s okay for teachers and students to date. (Funny how often Jessica finds herself in these situations.) He says it’d be okay for them to date and then sort of mauls her.
Bruce continues his mountain pity party, by deciding since Lila might be dead, he might as well die too. And he lies down to die and then thinks he would know if she were dead. (Through some magical, psychic connection of future lovers, no doubt.) He thinks he’s going to find Lila and survive.
Celine drops the creepy rose of creepy stalkers off at Liz’s desk. She’s unhappy about it. She thinks it might, possibly, be a little inconvenient to date a guy in a mental institution. Ya think? She decides she’ll find out his whole plan, and, if he’s still hung up on Elizabeth, she’ll turn him in herself. Well naturally you wouldn’t turn in a crazed, escapee mental patient if he was hung up on you.
Liz finds the rose and freaks out. William watches from the stacks and is pleased with himself. The one thing he’s worried about is if Liz will find out Celine was involved and get the wrong idea about the two of them. Yeah. You’re okay threatening a girl and trying to kill her, but god forbid she think you’re dating that southern skank.
We cut to Jessica in mid-maul. She manages to get away from Professor Martin. Then she whips out her trusty tape recorder and says if he doesn’t drop the charges against her and stop harassing Liz, she will play the tape over the campus loudspeakers. Okay that was kind of awesome. Then she runs from the office. The professor tries to run after her, but Jessica is rescued by a group of kindly chemistry professors, who offer to escort her out.
Liz goes to the security people to pump them for information. The guy at the desk is rude at first but then, when she mentions she’s doing a story for TV, he tells her everything. People love to be on TV! The phone call alerting them to the potential theft came in on Monday night and that it was from Theta house. That caller ID is a wonderful invention, no?
Liz tells Tom about Professor Martin (but not about the creepy rose) and sort of apologizes for blowing him off. Tom and Liz make out as they usually do. Then Jessica shows up and tells Liz that Martin is dropping the charges. Liz wants Jessica to report Professor Martin’s behavior, especially now that they have the tape for proof, but Jessica says, Nah, we had a deal. But she’s going to keep the tape as insurance.
Liz then tells Jessica what she found out from security. Jessica vows revenge against Alison. … But she still wants to be a Theta, of course!
Nina convinces Liz to come to the BSU meeting. Liz tells them she wants to help their cause and march or whatever. And eventually all the black students, including Bryan, agree that white people can march for their rights too.
Lila is hallucinating. She wishes her count were alive. She thinks everything would be all right then. She also wishes Bruce hadn’t left her. Then she hears a wolf howl. …And that’s the end. Grr.
Oh and William left some other presents for Liz at the library. Nina saw them. Find out more about his craziness in the next book!
Aren't there just all kinds of fun ways to be stalked/harassed/arrested/duped/injured/nearly killed in college?