The girls were slack jawed for a few seconds, when I heard Annette yelling when I got to the bottom of the steps -- our suite is on the second floor -- "Dana! You can't go out like that!" But I was already on my way, wearing my flip-flops, some fancy earrings, my dog-tag necklace with the suite keys added to it, and a smile!
They all ran down, and surrounded me, chattering all at once. "Dana, this is crazy! You'll get busted before we ever get there!" Sunset had passed about half an hour ago, and if it wasn't quite dark out, it was dusk, and the light was fading fast. It was only a three minute walk to the Phi Sig house, and if Danielle Keaton could walk around naked, in broad daylight, all day long, I ought to be able to make three minutes on a Saturday evening, even if it was in Pennsylvania.
I was smiling, and my heart was racing, and while I knew we made it in just those three minutes, it seemed like it took longer. A couple of cars passed by the sidewalk we were taking, and I saw a double-take through a car window, but that was it. There weren't any cars on the street we had to cross, so we didn't have to stand still and wait to cross, which was probably a good thing. I ran up the steps to the Phi Sig house, went right through the door, and challenged, "OK, I did it! Where's Butch?"
There was an immediate whooping and hollering from the guys in the Phi Sig house, and the girls who had already made it to the party before us. Larry, the chapter president, rushed up, "Oh my God, Dana, you really did it!"
"You knew that I didn't back down from challenges! Now, where's Butch? He was supposed to be at the door, ready to fill his end of the bargain, right then."
A couple of the frat guys I didn't know already had Butch in tow, and pushed him into the center of the room: "Here he is! Time to pay up, buddy!"
Larry had already said that if Butch tried to back out, the guys would make sure he fulfilled his end of the bargain, and while it would be interesting to see them strip him right there, that could have cause problems later; technically, it would be a sexual assault. Butch already had a red plastic cup of beer in his hand, and I don't think that it had been his first of the night; he was probably drinking up his courage.
"Strip! Strip! Strip!" everyone was yelling, the girls louder than the guys.