Two surviving coed roommates are escorted by a host of friends back to their housing after the successful indoor(!) Hunt of a third roommate.
The tiny Asian-American poetry lover has been Affirmative Actioned!
---Bagged and tagged in front of her laptop's web cam!
Her study group's chat sees it all. They are horrified:
"In the living room!" "In her flannel pajamas!" "Brutal!"
"We didn't know a Hunter can do that!"
Naturally they post it everywhere.
Naturally none of them take it upon themselves to call housing security and put a stop to it.
The four coed housing nest lost it's first roommate Friday afternoon.
Just yesterday,
The opening afternoon of fall semester's Hunting season, their blond, bimboish, now former, roommate is taken trophy #1.
She starts the short walk home immediately after her shift at the Hot 'N Tasty Café. She never arrives.
She is tagged, transported and processed almost immediately.
Now the poetry loving Asian-American is no more. They fear the target is stapled on their necks.
Internet chatter is positive the Hunter used the blonde's key to get into their housing.
It's the Internet. It's wrong:
"Fuck" "Fuck!" "Fuck" "Fuckity Fucking Fuck!" spits Madeline Macmillan generally known as Mad Maddie, or Mad Maddie Macmillan, living up to her name.
"I did this to her." "She's been Affirmative Actioned." "It was my turn to bring the garbage cans in." "I propped the door open." "My phone dinged." "I started reading texts." "I forgot!"
The redhead is crying, adding tears to rage.
"If I was home I would have kicked the son of a bitch's ass!"
"Took first during the regional tournament and third in the state at 148 lbs." "Lettered in wrestling my senior year."
"Tear his fucking nuts off?" "He won't Hunt again."
"Calm down Triple M" says Madeline's remaining roommate.
Their situation is too serious for her to take the easy shot: "chunky girl."
"Take a deep breath." "Maddie, we got to figure out what to do."
She grew up with the African- American perspective. Her ancestors suffered through race based slavery. They had ways to deal. Now it's gender and education based. Slavery is still Slavery.
Jayla's in ROTC.
Spring semester last year she had intro to Tactical Leadership. She learned EEE: Evaluate, Evade, Escape. Her cultural roots hold a multitude of tales, songs and historical examples suggesting how.
"If it's the same Hunter both times, and we got to go with it is."
"He's got some perverted kink for making roommates into slave sisters"
"It's our asses on the line."
"We got to go with he has more tags."
"Mads, we can't stay here!"
"He knows we have classes, his slaves know where we work and shop" "He'll make them tell." "He can stalk us all along the way!"
Evaluate done.
"I'm staying with friends."
"I'll print out some posters from the webcam."
"His white face will stand out in their neighborhood"
"It's a longer distance to campus."
"I'll take city buses, get escorts to and from bus stops."
"We just got to get through two more Saturdays and the season's done." "His tags are worthless after that."
Evasion planned. Escape in sight. For her.
"What you thinking Mad?"
What three M's thinking is: She can't go tonight. She has a hotel's night auditor job through work study.
She'll run for home tomorrow. Her parents aren't there, they're at some plastic paradise, some senior citizen vacation destination.
She's has their front door key. She'll let herself in and text them she's staying.
She can afford to cut classes for about three days. Her car isn't reliable.
She needs to find a closer safe place to stay.
She has another shift at the hotel on Wednesday.
If she can't find something better, she'll rent a room there.
Her parents home, next county over, is too far a commute.
What she also thinks is:
What the fuck was she thinking when she signed up for this Affirmative Action bullcrap?
The trad wife wanna bees at the private Fundamentalist Bible college back home think being tagged is romantic.
If some future preacher hits the lottery, buys a tag and staples their ear? They are half way to heaven.
If one doesn't?