This was my sophomore year at a reasonably well known East Coast College an institution known just as much for its academics as its sports. I got in as a legacy seeing as may dad went here but would have stood just as much chance on my own having solid grades and a exemplary high school sports career. I was good enough that they gave me my shot at college football as well. To date I had played well and had proven myself. I came from a little money, had some family connections, was a respected athlete, and could hold my own in the looks department. All this aside a drew some curious glances and a couple of questions from my teammates and several friends in some of the more selective social circles I traveled when at the end of freshmen year I pledges what my friends would call a fringe fraternity. No one gave me any long term grief though. I had always been able to move relatively easily between disparate social groups and this held true even here.
The reality was that I had ambitions for after college geared to the higher end of business or maybe politics. I wanted a good solid academic background as well as the popularity and connections. To that end I joined a more cerebral fraternity. Yes these were the geeks and nerds of academia but they would be very helpful for getting through classes that I was weak in and some day some of these boys would be heads of their own tech and science firms (something a lot of people forget about).
Being an athlete and popular got me in the door with the guys easily enough and having me as a member did raise the fraternities equity some. I treated the guys as normal human being and this got me there respect. I became the de facto social guru for my frat helping the guys out when I could and giving advice when asked with the additional duty of organizing and executing several of the yearly parties. It was in this capacity that a handful of the guys came to me with a request to put together a special get together for one of our soon to depart brothers Tom. They wanted something good as a send off.
I gave it a little thought and agreed giving them a time and date. I specifically picked a holiday weekend when pretty much most everyone would be away and we would have the house all to ourselves now of course I had to figure out what to arrange and how.
Fast forward a couple of weeks to a holiday weekend afternoon at the frat house.
The guys had been having a good if not mellow time. Everything was what you would expect up to this point, music, beers, snacks, some cinema, and some video games. Actually only one video game was out that was lollipop chainsaw I claimed I had misplaced the rest when I was setting up. And though this is everything you'd expect at a private party for college nerds and geeks this was a special gig for Todd in honor of having gotten into Caltech's grad mathematics program on a full ride scholarship. Not something you achieve easily and it comes with scarifies like your social life. But he had at one time or another gotten us all though a bind, for me it was business statistics, so the boys wanted to send him off in style. Of course having a small social circle meant that there were only seven of us including myself (everyone else was out of the house and I was confident no one would be back till tomorrow). The only thing the guys found out of the ordinary up to this point was that I collected everyone's electronics at the door when they arrived (I had asked everyone to vacate the house earlier for several hours while I did prep). This was an event for us NOT the rest of the world.
"Okay guys things are getting a little dull so how about we change gears? Let's go take in a show." Todd and a couple of the other guys had curious looks on their faces but his buddies who had helped me arrange one or two things had looks more of anticipation. Of course even they didn't know what was coming. Expecting we were going to head out people started making their way for the door.
"Hold on everyone I got something set up in the game room. Lets head on back there and grab a seat." I had cleared most things out of the room earlier leaving as much open floor space as I could and some comfortable chairs and the like. When everybody got in and gravitated to the half circle of seating I had set up I went over to the far wall were I had the other part of the room curtained off. This was a smaller annex were we had set up some old video game terminals the frat had collected over the years. I pulled the curtain aside, stepped in, and began wheeling out a massive prop cake almost 7 ft tall. The guys broke out in cheers"
"Killer, Brad got us a stripper. This is going to be awesome." They had no idea. As I pushed the cake into position around 8 ft in front of them I tapped the small remote I had in my pocket causing the lighting to drop a touch and some low techno to come on.
"All right guys you ready for some eye candy, you dam well better be ready"
