Laila POV

"I have an interview!" she excitedly screamed out in her room, jumping up and down when she received the call from Anika.

"For real?" Marketta looked down at her phone. "Uh...I didn't get a call."

She stopped her one-person celebration. Maybe she should have waited to celebrate. Her sister needed to get the call because she did not know if she could do this without her.

"Well...maybe they are calling in alphabetical order and you're next." That made sense. Why would they want her and not her sister? They had to know they lived together.

Marketta sat her phone on her desk and they both stared at it, willing it to ring.

"Maybe they are skipping around," Laila said. "There were a lot of people at Rush, maybe most of us made it."

Wishful thinking. She and her sister had nearly identical credentials. Sure her grade point average was higher but Marketta has more leadership experience. They balanced each other out. Her sister would get the call as well.

Again, nothing as they continued to watch her phone.

"It's okay, it's okay if I don't make it. I will be happy for you." Marketta put on a brave front, but she knew the truth.

That's when a number popped on Marketta's phone.

"That's them! That's them!" Laila squealed.

"Girl, calm down. Shhh! Answer the damn phone."

She only listened in as her sister talked with Anika and set her interview time. She would be interviewing twenty minutes after her. That was going to be awesome.

Now they could celebrate.

"We're going be in MAX!" Marketta shouted out doing her little happy dance.

"We still have to make it through interviews."

"Yes, but we got this!" Marketta was super confident now even though a few minutes ago she worried she would not get the call.

Anything could happen.

Their interviews were scheduled a few days away so now she would be nervous all week. She read over all the MAX material she could find, on top of having a test in one of her classes. There was no time for her to do anything else but her schoolwork.

If she made line, time would really be crunched.

As she was walking through campus one day, passing the quad, she saw a group of fraternity guys, all with their various colors on. There were some Ques, some Alpha, and then the brothers of Epsilon Upsilon. That meant one might be Manny. She immediately spotted him with the group and stopped walking before she was in their view.

No way did she want to face Manny and his nonsense. Those fraternity guys were the worst. If not Manny, she was sure one of them would catcall her.

As she turned to walk a different way before they noticed she heard, "Hey Laila!"

Manny of course. She quickened her getaway but heard him making big leaps to catch up with her.

"Hey girl, you heard me calling you." He stepped in front of her and gave her a sexy smirk she loved before. "Miss me?"

"No."

"Yeah, you do. I miss you too."

"Don't flatter yourself, I don't think about you, Manny."

"Oh come on baby, you know you have naughty dreams of me at night." He stepped closer to her. "I have the same. All the times we were in bed and I made you cream...I mean, scream."

He was being a total asshole, but why was her panties getting wet? Manny was so hot to her. Everything about him was hot. His lips, his eyes, his swag, everything. The boy had done things to her body no one had ever done before. Thinking of them made her want to cave. It had been so long.

And even now, hating him, he was sexier than ever. He changed so much since getting his letters. More swag. And the girls noticed it too. She was his first girlfriend. His first kiss. His first sexual partner.

"If you're not busy, we can hook up, go to your room and I can show you how much I missed you."

It was so tempting. It was just sex with an ex. That did not mean they would get back together. It would be better than having sex with a random guy to scratch her itch.

"Oh, see you're thinking about it." Again, Manny gave her that sexy smirk. "Baby, say the word." He kissed her neck, right there in the yard, where anyone could see.

Then she remembered, that she may or may not be a part of the elite sorority Mu Alpha Chi, and making out with a known player in the middle of campus was not a good look. She pushed him away from her.

"Manny, you're an asshole. I do not want you ever again."

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." He licked his lips. "You're the best I've ever had. And I know we'll be back together soon, I'll just wait patiently."

"Over my dead body," she stated and pushed him away before storming off.

She hated him with every fiber of her being. He was one of the most fucked up people in the world to her. He was sleeping around with who knows how many girls on campus and he thought she would really take him back?

No way in hell.

The next time she saw him she would not let him get into her head. She would not say a word. Give him the silent treatment. Manny did not deserve her time or energy. The only thing right now she would focus on was MAX.

A/N: I remember getting the call from my Dean of Pledges. I got the call first and it took a while for my sister to get the call. Then yes we celebrated. Good times.

Manny's not giving up. Jordan is not giving up. Which sister will fold?