Daisy Hughes (cyberblonde) wrote in invol_rpg, @ 2013-05-13 19:43:00 |
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TO: daisyhughes@gmail.com
FROM: candycanewill@gmail.com
SUBJECT: Hi Daisy!!
Hey girl!
Ugh, so sorry that I haven't written in so long. I'm not even sure if they let you check your email over there. :( I hope you're doing okay, we all miss you SO much.
annnyway, just wanted to let you know that I wrote an article for this website called xoJane about you! I'm totes sorry I didn't send it before, but I was kind of nervous I guess, haha. Anyway I wrote it out of LOVE and I hope that you don't mind!
You're the BEST, girl. Come back soon!
XOXO,
Candice
P.S. Oh my God, duh, I forgot the link. It's here! <3 <3 <3
P.P.S. I've heard some scandalous things about you and the boys over there. Confirm/deny? I promise not to write about it, haha. ;)
IT HAPPENED TO ME: A VOL JOINED MY SORORITY We all knew that a Vol was coming to Texas A&M, way before the day that Daisy Hughes showed up at the front door of my sorority. It was the first day of Rush Week -- a really exciting time for everyone involved in Greek life. We were so excited to meet our new sisters, but we had no idea that one of them would end up being a girl who could only be with us for one year before being sent to live in Australia. Pretty much all of us had heard about Daisy. Vols in Texas were big news back then. They still are, although after Seattle, London, Silicon Valley, and Russia, I'm pretty sure the novelty has worn off a little for all of us. At this point, it's hard to hear about a new Vol and not worry a little bit. But back then, the news that a Texas girl had crashed her boyfriend's car into a tree was just exciting. I feel a little bad putting up pictures of her, but it's not like everyone hasn't seen that awful video already, anyway. There was a ton of debate over whether or not we should let a Vol into the sorority. People worried it might make us look bad, or that people might not be able to see us as anything except 'the Vol House.' But over the week, we got to know Daisy. She was so normal. Sweet and pretty and she didn't talk about being a Vol at all. In fact, she told us that it didn't really have anything to do with her. She said she hardly ever used her powers. I guess that's changed. For the most part, Daisy was just like any other girl in our sorority. She came to all of our events, she shared our inside jokes. She loved Aggie football. But her life wasn't exactly the same as ours. Secrets are hard to keep when you're Greek, and pretty soon all of us knew that Daisy's older brother, a senior at A&M, hadn't even spoken to her in years. Someone said that it was because she'd lied to him about it, but I was never sure. I never worked up the nerve to ask her about it. And then there were the questions that people would ask me. In classes and at parties, everyone wanted to know about Daisy. Someone once asked me if she could levitate or if she glowed in the dark. (As far as I know, she doesn't.) I'd catch people snapping a picture of her on campus, like she was some famous actress or something. Honestly, it made me kind of jealous. And I think she liked the attention. But then November came around. Around that time, freshmen are starting to drop their boyfriends back home and pick up new ones. Daisy was, in all honesty, kind of a prude. I guess it makes sense, considering that she rarely had any privacy. But she'd been flirting for weeks with this guy from a neighboring frat -- we'll call him Tommy. I think she had it pretty bad for him. One night after a game, they finally hooked up. I'm pretty sure that it was the only guy she slept with, all year. He was gone by the morning. Before Daisy even had time to wonder why Tommy wasn't texting, everyone had heard about the Facebook status he'd put up. "CHAMPION - first one to f*ck a Vol, right here. I want that f*cking keg." Talk about gross. People got him to take it down, but the damage was already done. This picture of Daisy leaving for IVI was in Us Weekly. It's how I learned she wasn't coming back for the next school year. She wasn't really the same after that. She hid in her room most of the time and we practically had to drag her out to parties. I stopped feeling jealous. By the end of the year, I thought that maybe everything would be okay for her. Her smile was mostly back and she was happy to join in with the rest of us when we sat in the quad and judged the engineering students for their fatal fashion mistakes. But I think that maybe Daisy knew that she'd never be a normal student, even if she never admitted it out loud. I don't know if I completely agree with the IVF all of the time. I don't know if it's the right decision to keep the Vols all locked up in Australia. And I definitely don't think that all Vols are dangerous. If Tommy is any example, I think it's pretty clear that anyone can be awful, even if they don't have superpowers. But then again, I never thought Daisy could be dangerous either, until the day I saw the video of her hacking into that bank. The Daisy Hughes that I knew could barely even operate an iPhone. But maybe I didn't really know her at all. I wonder if she ever let any of us see the truth. Maybe we never let her. |