Ashley was jarred out of her thoughts by the closing of the door. Spencer smiled at the brunette and asked how her night had been.

            “It was good. I had fun. How was your night?” she responded. Spencer answered back with the same amount of detail that Ashley had provided her. If she could, she’d be happy to tell the brunette everything that happened, but she couldn’t. And she knew and respected that Ashley was in the same position. As pledges and part of the sisterhood they both vowed not to spill secrets. “Well,” Ashley continued, breaking Spencer from her thoughts, “seeing as how we have barely hung out all week, and we both received bids, I’m thinking that a little bit of celebration is in order here!” she exclaimed as she pulled out two bottles of Smirnoff Ice. Spencer grinned in response. “I’m going to call Aiden to see whether or not he got a bid. I say we all go hookah!” The blonde gave her a confused look.

            “Uh, hookah?”

            “Wait! Don’t tell me that you don’t know what hookah is!” Spencer continued to look clueless. “Hookah….you smoke it. It’s flavored,” she explained. Spencer scrunched up her nose. “Just try it. If you don’t like it, then no worries.”

            “All right. Give Aiden a call,” she replied. She twisted the cap off of her Smirnoff, and downed it in about a minute.

            “Uh, thirsty much?” the brunette teased.

            “Why even pretend anymore, you know I’m a lush!” Spencer replied, causing Ashley to laugh.

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            Spencer let her eyes adjust to the smoky room that her, Ashley, Aiden, and his new pledge brother, Stephen, had just entered. She looked around and noticed small and large groups were all sitting and passing around a snake-like tube, and were smoking from it.

            “What flavor are you girls up for?” Aiden asked as he took out his wallet. Spencer looked even more confused.

            “Strawberry,” Ashley called out. “Don’t want to start you off with something too strong.”

            “Um, Ash, am I going to get high or anything?” she questioned. Ashley simply laughed.

            “Spencer, if there was a possibility of you getting high, then it probably wouldn’t be legal. Don’t worry about it.” Spencer nodded her head, taking the brunette’s word. They all picked a table outside on the patio. A few minutes passed by before a guy came up to them and set down their things, and placed the coals on top of the aluminum. He placed two covers on the table, and Ashley unwrapped it and placed it on the hose.

            “Who wants first dibs?” she asked, looking between the three of them. Aiden retrieved it from her and took a few puffs. He then passed it back to Ashley.

            “Want to try it?” she asked, looking over at Spencer. Sure, she wanted the blonde to try it, but if she didn’t want to, then Ashley wasn’t going to push her into it. Spencer took another swig from her third bottle of Smirnoff, then shrugged.

            “Sure, why not? So how does this work?” Ashley gave her a few tips, then demonstrated once again. Spencer tried once, but only inhaled a little. She decided to try again after realizing that it wasn’t so bad. They passed it around, and were soon running out. And with two guys, it went by quickly.

            “Why don’t you and Aiden shotgun?” Ashley said in a teasing voice. The two boys blanched at her comment.

            “Here, how about this,” Stephen started off. “I will buy the next round, if you two shotgun.” Spencer looked at Ashley with confusion.

            “Shotgun?”

            “Uh, yeah. It’s when one person inhales, then place their mouth over someone else’s, and then they exhale into that persons mouth. The second person inhales a little, then releases the smoke,” Ashley explained.

            “Oh,” was all that Spencer could think of to say. The two guys and Ashley looked at her expectantly. She looked at the three of them. “For a free round, why not?” she asked with a grin. “I want watermelon this time though,” she said pointedly to Stephen. He simply smiled in response. Ashley inhaled the smoke, practically straddled Spencer, placed her lips on Spencer’s, exhaled, and then pulled back to see the reaction. Spencer exhaled and grinned. “Now that was awesome!” she exclaimed. Not to mention the fact that Ashley’s soft lips had just been on hers. And before the brunette could pull back completely, Spencer placed her hand on the back of Ashley’s neck, and pulled the brunette in for a kiss. Sure, she could blame it on the three Smirnoffs, but other than her first time drinking, she had always been able to hold her alcohol well.