Chapter 0675

Nina

"It's Nina, right?"

A familiar voice pierced through my calm. Opening my eyes, I saw Lea, the woman from my last class, standing over me with a smirk. "Back for more?" she asked, tossing her sleek, long ponytail over her shoulder.

I straightened up, meeting her gaze. Enzo's words of encouragement echoed in my mind, reminding me of how it was best to be the bigger person and not let her high school attitude get to me.

"Yes," I said, offering her a polite but stiff smile. "I am."

"You ran off yesterday," she said suddenly, her thin lips curling upwards into a smirk. "Something wrong? Pull a muscle?"

"Nope," I replied. "I just had some morning sickness to deal with."

"I see." Lea lingered, her foxen eyes sliding over me. I felt small beneath her gaze, and the way she was staring at me made my heart pound.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

She shrugged. "No, nothing's wrong at all," she said with a smile that was more plastic than teeth. "I've just never had morning sickness, so I can't really relate."

I shot her a disbelieving look. She was clearly a little further along in her pregnancy than I was, and I found it difficult to believe that she had never had morning sickness. "You haven't?" I asked.

"Nope." She shook her head and continued to smirk at me. "It's funny, most people don't actually realize that morning sickness comes from a poor diet."

"Does it, now?"

you won't get morning sickness. Actually, I didn't even realize that morning sickness was a thing, because I've just always had such a healthy diet

stared at her for

wolf hissed. "She's such a little

"I know."

said, checking

improving today," I said. "So I don't really have time

you certainly need to focus if you're going to improve on that body," she

friends. Even though part of me wanted to jump up off of my mat and call her out in front of the entire class, I didn't. I was going to

at her retreating figure and returning to my stretches. This was like high school all

side of a singing bowl with a wooden maller so that the sweet sound rang through the room.

tried to push aside my annoyance and focus

welcome challenge, and I found myself gradually relaxing into the rhythun of the class. Maybe this wasn't so bad after

though, I couldn't help but notice

the room. Every time I struggled with a pose or lost my balance, their laughter

infuriating, but I was determined not to let them get to me. I refocused

a tap on my shoulder. I turned to see a woman with a friendly face and a kind smile beside me. I hadn't noticed her much before, but she had been there the whole time; she was in downward dog

of mean girls. "Lea always acts like

candidness. "Oh, I... Thanks," I stammered, unsure of what

oblivious to—or maybe just ignoring-the drama, "let's move on

a deep breath in unison and moved into the pose. It was a nice stretch for my belly, and

woman

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