After the announcement was finished, there was a collective pause that could be felt all around the school...and then chaos erupted. And in the middle of that churning storm of need and desperation were me and my friends.


    Women of all shapes and sizes ran through the corridor and then spotted the giant banner Brandon had made and made a beeline for us. "Wee to the Application table. Take this tablet." I handed the first girl that made it to me. "Fill in the application and hit submit. Make sure you enter your proper email, as it will send you a duplicate of the application process and the receipt that it has been sent in." I smiled as she snatched the tablet away and filled in the paperwork. "ording to the king, you will receive a confirmation email that your application has been received by the email in ce."


    "Thank you." She filled it in and then handed it back. Wirth in seconds, she received two notifications. One email confirming the application had been sent, and one from Rowan''s email he had set up the night before, that it had been received. "Oh my goddess, it''s true. You did this." I just smiled and nodded. 1


    "Remember to spread the word that we are here." She screamed and did a happy dance and then started texting away. Soon, we were overrun


    One after another, the tablets weren''t ever on the table for more than a second and the applications were being sent in droves. And these were just the student poption. could only imagine how many applications they were getting. Their email system must be in overdrive.


    But thankfully, Rowan had prepared for this before this whole thing started. "How are they even this?" Toya leaned over with wide eyes. "I lost count of how many girls have been here."


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    I pulled out my phone and checked the dashboard I had created to keep track of everything. The number of applications was staggering. I looked over at the girls and my eyes zeroed in on Wendy. "Hey, Wendy. How many studentse to school?"


    She waggled her head. "I''m not sure. I think max capacity would be around twenty-three thousand." She quickly did the math. "We have the apartment building full of about six thousand students and we have the six dorm buildings, each holding about twenty-five hundred students. Give or take a few thousand. Why?"


    The girls all leaned over and I watched as their eyes grew wider. We had already processed over three thousand applications in the few hours we had been sitting there. "What the fuck is going on?" The screech ripped through the air and I could feel a smile settle onto my face as I turned my phone screen off. If we kept going at this rate, we could have over ten thousand applications submitted between today and tomorrow. There were hurried footsteps through the crowd and frustrated whinesing from the women being pushed aside. But I settled into my seat as Brandon leaned in closer to me with his own smirk


    "Is your entertainment about to arrive?" His question caught me off guard, but I just turned to meet his amused gaze with my own.


    "Goddess, I hope so. While today has been busy, it has been quite dull, don''t you think?"


    "You fucking bitch." I turned away from Brandon and faced Nina as she stomped up to my table. "How fucking dare you do this!" she screamed in my face, but I justughed.


    "What''s wrong Nina?" I stood and gestured down the tables. "I''m just giving these women the same right you or I have."


    She scoffed. "It won''t fucking matter. Their applications will be tossed in the trash, just like yours." She smirked, but I threw my head back andughed.


    "Oh Nina. You stupid bitch." I turned to face the frozen crowd. "Did you really just say that out loud...here?"


    I watched as Nina did a painfully slow turn to stare at all the women ring at her. Nina red right back. "Did I fucking stutter? Your applications will all be tossed by the council. Like any of you are fucking worthy of being actually chosen."


    I watched as some of the girl deted and turned away before I raised my voice. "Don''t listen to her. Everyone has the right to apply. And everyone will have their application looked at through our process, because the council isn''t directly involved." The girls froze and tumed back as smirked. "The thing is Nina, none of these applications go to the council to be appraised as you said. These applications that I take today and tomorrow...they are going directly into the King''s email. And he has sworn to look over every application with a discerning eye. Unlike those that will go through the regr council bullshit."


    "You wouldn''t fucking dare."


    "Why not Nina? I got the King''s permission." I smiled as she paled. "After I told him you personally said that the council was going to toss cer