You Won't Believe What These Frat Guys Did After Learning a Girl Could See Them From Her Window

When Lexi Brown started new chemotherapy pills to fight recurring tumors in her lungs, her hair and eyebrows turned white. Worried that something was wrong, her mother took Lexi to the doctor, and they learned that her heart was only working at 15 percent.

The 12-year-old girl was immediately airlifted to the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, where she and her mother decided to make the best of their situation.
Lexi's room overlooked UCLA's fraternity row, and to pass the time, she and her mom drew a sign asking for pizza that they hung from her hospital window. After a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity noticed the sign, the brothers decided to get together and do something for the sick little girl — far beyond ordering pizza.

"Five guys come in, and they had a guitar and dozen roses and a box of pizza," Lexi's mom, Lisa, said. "They introduced themselves and said, 'We saw your sign; we're here.' They stayed for a half an hour, they sang this song and I started bawling my head off. I'm like, 'I can't believe these people are here for my child.'"

Lexi and her parents had never met the group of college students before, but they instantly connected during that first visit. After learning about Lexi's love of soccer, one SAE member arranged for the team to stop by. Lexi also enjoyed surprise visits from UCLA's quarterback, Josh Rosen, as well as the men's and women's rowing, swimming, and tennis teams, the Christian Campus Ministry, and two sororities, all thanks to the SAE brothers.

But it was the consistent visits from the fraternity members that Lexi looked forward to most.
"Brothers stepped up to go visit her essentially every day," said SAE chapter president Kevin Autran. "Some just stopped by to give her a little gift like a shirt or a teddy bear, and some stayed for hours to hang out with her."

The hospital even bent the rules to allow the brothers to stay until midnight on multiple occasions as Lexi beat them in rounds of the card game Speed.

Inspired by their new relationship with Lexi, the caring young men decided to incorporate her into their annual holiday tradition of decorating their house with lights. When Lexi looked out the window, she saw her name spelled out in lights on the roof, in her favorite color, purple, along with a glowing red heart. "We truly feel like Lexi and her parents are part of our family, and we just want them to know that we will always be there for them," Autran said.

Even though Lexi is now back at home, continuing to fight for her health, the brothers plan to stay in touch with the Browns and are keeping the lights up all season in her honor. They've also enlisted SAE members from around the country to donate to a fund set up to help with Lexi's hospital bills.

"We're going through hell right now," Lisa said. "But we don't treat Lexi any different than we do our 14-year-old son, or these boys. I really gave them crap, and it has just been a joy in a time when we could have just sat there and cried, but we didn't. . . . I never knew that so many young adults had it in them."