“Sluts over dorks, sluts over dorks.”   Catherine listened to the chants of her sisters.  The majority overwhelmed the pleas of Katy, the girl sitting to Catherine’s right.   Katy was the only girl in the sorority from Longview, a tiny town east of Houston.  She’d been yelling for this girl from her hometown the past five minutes.  “She’s one of us,” Katy said.  “You just need to get to know her better.” Since the pledge up for consideration was from Longview, whatever Katy was saying now didn’t matter.  “Sluts over dorks,” always won out, the perfect excuse.  Katy began to cry now. She had lost the battle.  Catherine wasn’t surprised. 

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