Pizza Night

Story Excerpt

When Ezra thought about joining a fraternity, he imagined it would be glamorous, with other intelligent, high-profile students; athletes, mathematicians, linguists; respected students. But the only fraternity to accept it was the complete opposite; a house full of drugged losers, drunks and delinquents.

The house was filthy, full of food wrappers, empty liquor bottles, dirty clothes, and cigarette butts. The walls were as dirty as the floor; The wallpaper peeled and moldy, all the walls of the house had dirty handprints and feet. The whole house reeked of piss, sweat, weed, and alcohol.

When he was accepted, the pink-haired with his cleaning obsession, spent most of his free time trying to tidy up the house; Collecting the garbage scattered on the floor, tidying up the rooms, washing the bathrooms, the dishes, the clothes, in short, household chores in general, he took turns between his courses and the house, always avoiding as much as possible mixing with his fraternity companions.

That was completely humiliating, he wasn’t there to be a ‘maid’, and to make matters worse, the guys at the frat treated him like a toy. They knew he was a man, but they always referred to him as a girl; “she”, “little girl”, “princess”, “doll”, “kitten”, but he did not have the courage to defend himself and tell them to stop; they were all bigger and stronger than him, and Ezra was afraid of taking a beating.

He never partakes on the “socializing” with the group, but one night, the situation was different; every month, the fraternity organized a “pizza night.” It wasn’t like they didn’t eat junk food every day, but apparently, pizza night was special, for some reason. Ezra never attended; He preferred to spend the night studying, as always, avoiding as much as possible to mix with others. But one night, they managed to convince him to go down a bit and interact with his “brothers”.