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?"

just eat salads while getting plenty of exercise, you won't get morning sickness. Actually, I didn't even realize that morning sickness was a thing, because I've just

stared at her for a moment, feeling

"She's

"I know."

Lea said, checking

just focusing on improving today," I said. "So I don't really have

she said,

up off of my mat and call her out in front of the entire class, I didn't. I was going to be the bigger person and

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

of a singing bowl with a wooden maller so that the sweet sound

a deep breath. Even though Lea's words were biting, I just tried to push aside my annoyance and focus on the movements. We started with gentle stretches, easing into

found myself gradually relaxing into the rhythun of the class. Maybe this

I couldn't help but

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

infuriating, but I was determined not to let them get to me. I refocused on Hannah's instructions, trying to ignore the

see a woman with a friendly face and a kind smile beside me. I hadn't

whispered, nodding her head towards Lea and her little clique of mean girls. "Lea always acts like that. She's

by her candidness. "Oh, I... Thanks," I

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

I both took a deep breath in unison and moved into the pose. It was a nice stretch for my belly, and I liked to imagine the baby

Sarah, by the way," the brown-haired woman introduced herself quietly, extending a

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