Disclaimer: I do not own Greek. I was recently looking back at this story and have decided to rewrite it as I want to continue this story but have a few different ideas to build on what was already written.
New Year, New Problems
It had been a long summer, she sat on her front steps in disbelief, she was a straight A student and had been waitlisted for Cyprus Rhodes University. All Casey talked about for years was CRU, and how great Zeta Beta Zeta was. Jess had been waiting for the day when she would join her siblings on Campus. Jess Cartwright the youngest in the Cartwright family. Jess essentially was a clone of Casey, with blonde hair, blue eyes the opposite of Rusty. Jess is three years younger than Casey and only one year younger than Rusty. Jess watched as her siblings packed up and left for University.
"You'll get in next year for sure!" Casey said as she placed her suitcase in the back of her car.
"They're crazy for not accepting you" Rusty stated as he opened the passenger side door.
"Hopefully" Jess muttered.
"Just remember, you're coming out for a visit in a few weeks" Casey smiled
"I'll see you both in a few weeks" Jess replied as she waved.
Casey hopped into her car and drove off.
"It is disappointing we won't be seeing her on Campus this year" Rusty said.
"She'll be okay, everything happens for a reason. Jess is right where she needs to be" Casey smiled.
Jess sat on the front porch, today was the last day she could hear if she had been accepted off the waitlist. The mail man would be around any second, waiting every day of the summer she learned the schedule very well. She watched as he turned the corner of the street, she stood up and ran to the end of the driveway.
"Any mail today?" Jess asked the mailman
"I've got a large envelope for you" The man smiled as he handed the large envelope to her. Jess grinned and took the letter running into the house. She looked at the package admiring the large CRU letters on the outside. She carefully tore the envelope open, sliding out an folder, she held her breath as she opened it. She skimmed the letter.
"Congratulations Jessica Cartwright you have been accepted to Cyprus Rhodes University"
Of course she had gotten late acceptance to the pre-med program after Casey and Rusty had left for CRU. Jess discussed with her parents about the acceptance. They were very happy for her. Jess decided she was not going to tell her brother and sister until after she arrived CRU. She packed her belongings into two suitcases, ensuring she had absolutely everything she would need. She begged her parents to let her travel to CRU on her own, after much groveling they accepted the idea. The one condition was that she needed to check in with her siblings as soon as she arrived.
She took a deep breath and walked into her dorm room. Today was a start to a whole new world, and Jess was ready for it.
Jess looked around the room she had just walked into it wasn't huge or small it was a prefect size. On one side of the room stood a girl with brown hair, about the same height as Jess.
"Hey, you must be my roommate. I'm Jess" Jess introduced herself.
"I'm Lauren; it's nice to meet you. Where are you from?" Lauren asked.
"Chicago, Illinois you?" Jess replied.
"I'm from Boston" Lauren told Jess.
"Cool, so are you going to rush night?" Jess asked
"What is rush night?" Lauren asked as she was very confused
"Rush night is where you can go look at all the sororities" Jess explained
"I don't know, I don't think I'm that kind of girl. Are you?" Lauren said
"I am. I really want to get into Zeta Beta. I really hope I can"
"What's Zeta Beta?" Lauren asked
"You're so unaware; Zeta Beta is the best sorority on campus"
"I might then go with you, you know test the waters, see what it's all about" Lauren said
Jess unpacked all her stuff, and organized her room. Lauren and her chatted about girl stuff, The Hills and Grey's Anatomy stuff like that. Around two o'clock Jess left her dorm room; she went to Zeta Beta to go see Casey. She didn't get to ZBZ till around two thirtyish she got lost a few times. Jess knocked on the door and a girl that looked really familiar answered.
"Hey" Jess said
"Rush isn't until next week please come back later" the girl said going to close the door; the girl seemed to take a double take of Jess.
"I am not here for Rush, I was looking for Casey" Jess explained.
"Casey? Casey Cartwright" The girl asked
"Yeah" Jess replied
"One second, why don't you step in while I go get her?" The girl said
"Okay" Jess said
"I'm Rebecca Logan and you are?" the girl said
"Jessica, but everyone calls me Jess" Jess said
"I'll be right back with Casey" Rebecca said walking up the stairs. Once Rebecca reached the top of the stairs she called for Casey.
"Yes Rebecca?" Casey said walking out of her room to the hallway.
"Some girl is here to see you. I think it was Jess or something. I told her that is wasn't time for rushes yet but she said she was here to see you" Rebecca said
"Oh okay" Casey said going to the stairs, she thought about her sister Jess who was doing an extra year of high school since she hadn't gotten the offer she wanted for college. As Casey reached the end of the stairs, a smile came to her face. She instantly ran over and hugged Jess. "What are you doing here?" Casey asked
"Late acceptance to pre-med" Jess replied
"Oh my god that's so great!" Casey yelled
"Yeah, I wanted to tell you sooner but you weren't answering my calls" Jess said
"I'm sorry Lil sis, things have been crazy here" Casey explained
"So I'm going to rush " Jess said with a big smile
"You are? That's great!" Casey replied
"Yeah, well since you say it's the best thing" Jess told Casey
"Well of course, you'll be sure to get into ZBZ, seeing that you're considered a legacy" Casey told Jess
"I want to be fair, no one should know were sisters until after bids" Jess said
"That's hard Jess, since we look like twins"
"But I don't want to be only bid on because I'm your sister" Jess said
"Okay, I won't say anything until after but I'm not lying to anyone if they ask" Casey explained
"That's fair" Jess said, looked at her cell. Rusty was calling her. "Russ is calling…" Jess told Casey
"Legit? Does he know?" Casey asked
"No, not yet." Jess said picking up her phone. "Hey Rusty" She said
"Hey Jess" Rusty said
"What do you want?" Jess asked
"To say CRU is crazy for not accepting you" Rusty told Jess, Jess pushed speaker phone so Casey could hear as well
"Thanks Big bro" Jess said
"So how's Chicago?" Rusty asked
"I don't know you'd have to ask Mom or Dad" Jess said
"Why?" Rusty asked
"Because I'm with Casey right now" Jess said
"Casey's at Cyprus with me" Rusty said confusedly
"Hey Russ" Casey said into the phone.
"Stop playing mind tricks on my Jess!" Rusty said
"I'm not, I'm at Cyprus Rhodes I got late acceptance" Jess explained
"How long have you known?" Rusty asked
"Couple of days" Jess responded
"And of course you'd tell Casey first" Rusty said
"Because I wanted to tell her I'm rushing" Jess explained
"Okay, I get it. Come by Kappa Tal tonight, they're throwing a party and you get to meet Cappie?" Rusty asked
"Of course Rusty, bye" Jess said hanging up the phone.
"He would want you to meet Cappie" Casey said rolling her eyes
"Cappie… that name sounds really familiar…. Cap…Cappie…. your ex?" Jess asked
"Yes, now go explore campus, make friends" Casey said
"I know, Can't wait to see Cappie tonight. Oh and Evan!" Jess said with a smile
"Go" Casey said playfully pointing to the door.
After Jess's conversation with Casey she went back to her dorm room to get ready for they party at Kappa Tal. She straightened her hair, and put of a high waist skirt with a nice top. She slipped into a black pair of heels and did her make up. If she didn't say so herself she looked amazing. Lauren was still getting ready when Jess finished so Jess offered to help by straightening her hair.
There was a light tap on the door, Jess spun around.
"Hello, I'm looking for Jess Cartwright?" The small brunette asked.
"Hi, What's up?" Jess asked.
"My name is Franny, and I have a special invitation to a party on the lake tomorrow" Franny smiled.
"What's this party for?"
"It's like a pre-rush gathering with Omega Chi" Franny smiled.
"I thought you weren't supposed to interact with rushes until rush" Jess questioned.
"Normally that is the case, but Ikapa Iota Kapa is new and is not apart of panolenic yet" Franny explained.
"Ikapa Iota Kapa?" Jess asked
"Ikap for short" Franny smiled
""Or IKI" Jess whispered to Lauren causing Lauren to laugh.
"Excuse me? What did you say?" Franny asked, looking at Jess like she had seen her before.
"Oh nothing sorry" Jess replied
"That's funny because I heard the same remark earlier today" Franny laughed. Franny could not put her finger on it but this girl reminded her a lot of someone.
"Interesting"
"Well I hope to see you tomorrow" Franny smiled as she handed a small envelope to Jess.
"I'll think about it" Jess replied. Franny left the room shortly after.
"What was that about?" Lauren asked.
"Some new sorority trying to recruit, but who wants to be in IKI" Jess laughed. She knew she would need to pass this information along to Casey.
"Weird" Lauren responded.
"Let's get to that party" Jess smiled.
Jess walked around the Kappa Tal party, it was the best party she'd ever seen. She was looking around and chatting with Lauren who had surprisingly made it through rush in one piece. Jess locked eyes with this really attractive guy; she started to make her way over when Rusty cut her off.
"Jess, I cannot believe you're here!" Rusty said
"Thanks Bro" Jess replied
"How was rush?" Rusty asked
"Pretty great, all the houses love me" Jess grinned
"Let me introduce you to Cappie" Rusty said. As kids Rusty and Jess got along great until Jess hit her teenage years, they ran out of things to talk about. That's when Casey and Jess became much closer. Honestly, who is going to talk about girl stuff with their older brother?
"I guess he is Casey's ex" Jess said following Rusty who had started making his way through the crowd,
"Hey Cap, meet my sister" Rusty said once he reached a guy with skater brown hair. Jess couldn't complain about what Casey had seen in him, he was quite attractive
"I already know your sister" Cappie said without acknowledging Jess
"No this is my younger sister" Rusty said pointing to Jess, who blushed because let's be honest Cappie was attractive.
"Hey Casey" Cappie said turning to Jess without noticing it wasn't Casey. "Wait you're not Casey … too quiet" Cappie said when he took a double take
"That's because I'm Jess Cartwright" Jess said
"Another Cartwright at Cyprus, isn't there a rule against that?" Cappie asked jokingly
"Probably" Jess smiled
"So what are you studying?" Cappie asked
"I think I want to study you" Jess joked
"That could be arranged just check in with my secretary" Cappie said
"Will do" Jess said
"Spitter could you leave us alone for a minute?" Cappie asked
"Yeah sure" Rusty said heading back into the crowd
"Already going for alone time?" Jess joked
"No, not really just thought you'd want to be free of your protective older brother" Cappie said
"Oh thank you so much"
"No problem, so other than studying me what program are you in?" Cappie asked
"I'm Pre-Med" Jess said
"Well we could always play doctor, I'm a great patient" Cappie said
"Sure name the time and place" Jess said
"Did you know you're the funniest Cartwright I've met?"
"Actually, I thought Casey was always funnier"
"Let's get Jokey a drink" Cappie said swinging his arm over Jess's shoulders. Cappie introduced Jess to a lot of Kappa Tal's she was known as 'Spitter's Little Sister' it was great. Once she was able to get away from the Kappa Tal's she met eyes with the guy from before. Man was he something else; he was so hot like a guy from Laguna Beach; Stephen Colletti before One Tree Hill. He started to walk over to Jess.
"You're just so popular I couldn't talk to you until, you rid all those other guys" He said
"I guess boys know when there's a hot girl around" Jess replied
"They sure do"
"Thanks? I think?" Jess replied
"I'm Bryan" He said
"Oh very nice, I'm Jess" Jess told Bryan
"Jess would you like to dance with me?" Bryan asked
"Sure I'd love to" Jess replied as they walked out into the crowd of Kappa Tal partiers and started to dance. Onlookers like Cappie watched as the Casey look alike, Jess dance. He didn't know why but he had a feeling like her wanted to get to know her better, better than most girls if you know what he's like. Rusty saw his baby sister dancing with a boy, sure in high school she had her share of boyfriends some bad and some extremely weird. But this guy seemed to push him over the edge more so than usual.
Jess had put back a few more drinks through the night, and such. Somewhere Bryan had left and she was alone with a bunch of Kappa Tal's. She wasn't drunk per say more so tipsy.
"Jess, Let's get you back to your dorm" Rusty told her
"What Russ! We're about to do body shots" Jess whined
"Fine" Rusty said walking away from Jess. Instead he called Casey.
"Rusty you better be dying its two o'clock in the morning" Casey said when she picked up the phone.
"Sorry It's just Jess is still at the KT party and she won't leave" Rusty said
"She's still there? A Freshman's first party always end badly; I should know I speak from experience." Casey said
"Can you come get her to leave? I really rather her not…" Rusty paused
"I'll be there in a few minutes" Casey said hanging up the phone.
Rusty watched Jess do a body shot off Cappie, which was weird because usually Cappie didn't go for body shots of himself. He saw her go for the lime in his mouth right before Casey was going to walk in. This was not going to end well. But he saw Jess pause realizing that it was wrong and she backed away. That is when Casey entered.
"Hey Guys" Casey said as she walked over the group.
"Hey Casey" Cappie said, "Body shot for you?" he asked
"No thanks Cap, I'm here to take Jess back to her dorm" Casey said
"Big Sis you came to pick me up?" Jess asked
"Sure thing little Sis, Let's go" Casey said taking her arm
"Okay, I have to tell you something anyways" Jess said, Jess was definitely drunk she tripped over thin air on the way to Casey's car.
"What is it Jess?" Casey asked, Jess looked up it
"I met a cutie" Jess said
"Cool" Casey said
"Yeah" Jess said
"So why didn't you leave with your roommate?" Casey asked once she got into the car after helping Jess.
"I think she um, went to Omega Chi or something with a guy he offered her a tour of the house" Jess said
"Oh okay, next time take it easy with the drinks okay" Casey told Jess
"I'm not drunk!" Jess yelled
"I know, I just don't want to see you be taken advantage of" Casey explained
"Can you just take me to my dorm, I'm tired" Jess said yawning
"Of course" Casey said as she pulled her car out onto the road and drove off. Casey walked Jess to her dorm room to ensure she made it to a safe place, once they made it into her room. Jess flopped down on her bed quickly fell asleep. Casey wrote Jess a short note and left some Tylenol beside the note and left the room.