Theme Song: "Behind Blue Eyes" - Limp Bizkit
It's midnight. Sara, Billy, and I have just finished watching Hocus Pocus, so now I must escort Sara home in the pouring rain so she doesn't get raped. We head down Carlisle street, passing the usual drunken monkeys along the way when a sopping wet blonde asks Sara if she can use her cell phone. Sara brushes her off so I toss the girl mine.
The blonde's name is Stephanie and she's completely LOST. Apparently, she was dropped off from North Carolina in hopes of visiting a friend at gBurg... however, it's raining, everything's closed, no one's sober outside, and all she can tell us about this guy is that he's in "sophomore housing." Yeah... that's like every building within a 1/4 mile radius. X0 We shelter her with Sara's umbrella and bring her along to the RISE house. She calls this guy up again and Sara tells him that we'll be waiting at "the old Psi Chi house" (terminology I wouldn't even know) and after she starts yelling at him in frustration, I grab the phone and the girl and tell him to meet us at Lahm Hall, right across from Huber.
We say Goodbye to Sara, and I take Stephanie home with me; she enthusiastically thanks me at least 10 times along the way. I try to keep her spirits up and manage to keep her laughing... joking about how her boyfriend is so afraid that I'm a Campus Safety & Security officer and is more concerned about gettin' busted for underage drinking than about her safety. Really, he constantly asks me on the phone, "Are you sure you're not S&S?" No, dammit, we just randomly ran into this lost girl and want to return her! ...What a douchebag!
Anywho, I bring her back. And as soon as I open the second door, she starts to panic. I can't figure out why until I realize... the first thing you see when you enter our dorm room is Billy's Japanese Doll collection. Holy Silence Of The Lambs, Batman! Stephanie suggests that she just go back out and look for him. But there's no way in hell that I'll let that happen. She's stranded without any knowledge of the campus! I'm a caring person who won't let her go out into the pitch black night to get hurt or taken advantage of. Seriously, all she'd have to do to end up in the shady side of town would be to walk two blocks THAT way! How could I ever forgive myself if she was another victim of the infamous "Grabber"? All I know is, I'm not letting her out of my sight until I know she's safe.
I call the douchebag up again and tell him that I'm gonna bring Stephanie to him. He tells me he's outside Huber Hall right now, so I escort her across the street and hand her over to him. She hugs me Goodbye and lets out one last "Thank You So Much." And although something doesn't feel right about the guy's coldness toward her (I'm up half the night hoping that she's actually safe with him), I'm glad she's alright.
It's times like this when I realize how selfless & caring I can truly be. Although I'm not a member of APO (service fraternity), I volunteer in more projects and donate more money simply out of the kindness of my heart... not just to fulfill some membership requirement. I guess that's my atonement for those wasted years in National Honor Society, LOL! Really, the absolute least I could've done for that girl was to point her in the direction of Safety & Security. Yet I was willing to, if it came down to it, let her sleep on the eurofuton for the night and let her search with daylight on her side.
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